Your TV Guide to the Week - November 6th, 2020

Bad News Bears

Length: 1hr 53mins
Mood: Comedy, Sport
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden

Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12-year-olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Do Morris' uncoordinated boys have what it takes to start winning?

Beer League

Length: 1hr 26mins
Mood: Comedy, Sport
Director: Frank Sebastiano
Starring: Artie Lange, Ralph Macchio, Anthony DeSando

Artie is an unemployed and unmotivated drunk that is still living with his mother. He is on a losing softball team, and he and his teammates will soon be kicked out of the local league if they can't pull it together. When love enters his life, it unexpectedly alters Artie's low self-esteem, and the odds for winning both the league trophy and a new life are certainly looking up.

Helena From The Wedding

Length: 1hr 29min
Mood: Comedy, Drama
Director: Joseph Infantolino
Starring: Dagmara Dominczyk, Paul Fitzgerald, Dominic Fumusa

Longtime couple Alex, a lawyer-turned-struggling-playwright, and Alice, an insecure woman, have recently married and invited several of their couple friends to Alex's parents' cabin in the upstate woods for New Year's Eve. The newlywed bliss in Alex and Alice's marriage threatens to fall apart with the last-minute addition of British model, Helena, whom Alex tried to hit on at a friend's wedding while he was already seriously dating Alice.

Beauty and the Least

Length: 1hr 25mins
Mood: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Bryce Clark
Starring: Ben Banks, Katharine Towne, Mischa Barton

When they say “love is blind” they must have been talking about Amy and Ben. Amy is a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. Ben is a scruffy slacker, whose only ambition seems to be avoiding growing up. However, Amy sees something in Ben that Ben doesn’t see in himself, which gives Ben the confidence to make something of his life.

The Dark Stranger

Length: 1hr 30min
Mood: Animation, Drama, Horror
Director: Chris Trebilcock
Starring: Katie Findlay, Alex Ozerov, Enrico Colantoni

Leah Garrison is a young graphic novelist recovering from the recent suicide of her mother, which has given her severe anxiety to the point where she is afraid to leave her own home. When Leah begins drawing a graphic novel about an ominous Dark Stranger, she begins to see it in real life. Piece by piece, The Dark Stranger tears apart her life, killing anyone who comes between her and the make believe world she has created.

Black Christmas

Length: 1hr 32 mins
Mood: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Sophia Takal
Starring: Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue

Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation's young women aren't willing to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the finish.