Your TV Guide to the Week - July 16th, 2021

Just My Luck

Length: 1hr 48min
Mood: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Faizon Love

Ashley Albright, a businesswoman living in New York City, is considered by many to be the luckiest person in the world. The same cannot be said for Jake Hardin, the put upon and down-on-his-luck manager of McFly. When the two kiss at a masquerade ball, Ashley's life turns into a living nightmare, where Jake's fortunes are on the up.

First Daughter

Length: 1hr 55min
Mood: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Forest Whitaker
Starring: Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Amerie

The daughter of the President of the United States goes off to college after insisting that she be able to enjoy her school years without the omnipresence of the Secret Service. The government agrees to her demands but assigns a young agent to go undercover as a student in order to keep an eye on her. The first daughter and the agent fall in love, until she learns his true identity.

The Hot Chick

Length: 1hr 44min
Mood: Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Tom Brady
Starring: Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence

A popular yet mean-spirited teenage girl wakes up one day to find herself turned into a man in his 30's. Along the way to finding out how she ended up like that, she discovers how shallow and cruel she's always been.

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White And Blonde

Length: 1hr 35min
Mood: Comedy
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Regina King

Sassy postgrad Elle Woods is all about animal rights. In fact, she puts her nuptial plans on hold to head to Washington, D.C. to get an anti-animal testing bill passed. Her building's doorman quickly shows her the ways and workings of our nation's capital.

Surf's Up

Length: 1hr 25min
Mood: Animation, Comedy, Family
Directors: Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel

Cody Maverick is a penguin who has a passion for surfing. Hitching a ride to Pen Gu Island, Cody and his chicken friend, Joe attempt to participate in the Big Z Memorial Surf Off. This documentary tracks his steps from leaving his home, training with Big Z and attempting the big challenge.

Final Destination 5

Length: 1hr 32min
Mood: Action, Horror, Thriller
Director: Steven Quale
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith

While on a business retreat, Sam has a premonition that he, his co-workers, boss, and several other people will die in a horrific bridge collapse. When his premonition ends, he tries to make everyone get off the bus. Only some of his co-workers, along with his boss, leave. Shortly after, the bridge collapses. Everyone thinks that they are safe until the survivors start dying. It is now up to Sam to try to find a way to prevent anyone else from dying before it is too late.

Hannibal

Length: 2hr 11min
Mood: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker, Robert De Niro

Part four in the Dr. Hannibal Lecter quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum, Dr. Hannibal Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing for whom Lecter truly cares: Clarice Starling.

The Six Million Dollar Man

Length: 45min
Mood: Drama, Action, Crime
Starring: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks

When ace test pilot Colonel Steve Austin's test plane crashed, he was nearly dead. Deciding that "we have the technology to rebuild this man", the government decides to do just that, fitting him with cybernetic components which give him superhuman strength and speed. Austin becomes a secret agent/operative, fighting injustice where it is found.