THE WEEK’S OTHER PRIME-TIME FILMS
In Weird Science (KTLA, Monday at 8 p.m.), another John Hughes illustrated teen-age daydream, Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith conjure up a computer-built dream woman, played by Kelly Le Brock--to her credit--as if she were real.
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (KCET, Monday at 10 p.m.), Christine Choy’s chilling and skillful Oscar-nominated 1989 documentary, probes the murder of a Chinese-American auto worker on the eve of his marriage.
Like Father, Like Son (KTLA, Tuesday at 8 p.m.) shrewdly treats its preposterous premise, which has father (Dudley Moore, in peak form) and teen-age son (likable Kirk Cameron) accidently exchanging brains, as a joke, yet makes the comic results seem believable.
In Walter Hill’s smart, rambunctious 48 HRS. (KCOP, Wednesday at 8 p.m.), Eddie Murphy made a smash 1982 film debut as a slick con man on a two-day leave to help San Francisco cop Nick Nolte nail one of Murphy’s cohorts. Fun but ultra-violent.
Revenge of the Nerds (KTTV, Friday at 8 p.m.) is a delicious, gratifying underdog fantasy and a raunchy, uproarious satire set in the world of college fraternities and sororities. Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards are terrific as the nerds.
Peter Wang’s 1986 A Great Wall (KCET, Saturday at 10 p.m.) is a charming, gentle and slightly racy culture-clash comedy in which Wang casts himself as a Silicon Valley engineer who takes his family to visit his relatives in China.
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