Your TV Guide to the Week - February 5th, 2021

A Little Bit of Heaven

Length: 1hr 47min
Mood: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Directors: Nicole Kassell
Starring: Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Kathy Bates

New Orleans ad executive, Marley Corbett, is a quick-witted, carefree woman who embraces her easy going attitude, shuns any major responsibilities, and gains support and strength from a close circle of friends. Then Marley learns she has terminal colon cancer. Despite her determination not to be tied down in a serious relationship, Marley finds herself falling in love with her handsome doctor, even as her health slowly deteriorates.

The Thomas Crown Affair

Length: 1hr 53min
Mood: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary

A bored multi-millionaire struggling to find new challenges arranges for the theft of a Monet painting from a museum. This sets a insurance investigator after him, but unexpectedly the two fall in love. Does she keep her ethics and pin him for the crime she knows he committed or does she follow her heart? Things are complicated by a beautiful blonde that he keeps company with, when he is not with her.

Two Lovers

Length: 1hr 20min
Mood: Drama, Romance
Directors: James Gray
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw

Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancée left him. In quick succession, he meets two women: Sandra, the daughter of his parents' business associates; and, his neighbor Michelle. Michelle is in love with a married man and cries on Leonard's shoulder; Sandra wants to save him. He's torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.

Beauty and the Beast

Length: 1hr 52min
Mood: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Director: Christophe Gans
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier

An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted.

Betting on the Bride

Length: 1hr 28min
Mood: Romance
Director: Marita Grabiak
Starring: Karissa Lee Staples, Peter Mooney, Cindy Busby

Health fanatic, Melanie, has backed out of not one but three weddings with the last one seeing her flee at the last minute from the church. Damon is a committed bachelor who mocks all his friends who have settled down and had children but is confident that he could seal the deal when ever he wants. He takes a bet from his boss hat he can meet a woman and get her to say "yes" within 30 days of meeting her. Trouble is that getting Melanie to fall for him is harder than he thought and what happens when one of her ex's discovers Damon was only dating her as a bet.

Uptown Girls

Length: 1hr 32min
Mood: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Boaz Yakin
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear

Molly Gunn is a spoiled, wealthy and immature young woman. On her birthday in a nightclub, she meets Lorraine "Ray" Schleine, a nasty young girl with attitudes of an adult, living with her careless mother and a terminal father in a fancy uptown apartment. When Molly's accountant vanishes with her US$ 100,000,000.00 inheritance, Molly is left with nothing but debts. She is hired to be Ray's babysitter and their close contact makes Molly reach maturity and Ray act like as a child of her age.

NEXT

Mood: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Creator: Manny Coto
Starring: John Slattery, Fernanda Andrade, Michael Mosley

Next is a propulsive thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence that combines pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don't yet understand.