With the 1987 In the Mood (KCOP...
With the 1987 In the Mood (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m., again Saturday at noon) writer-director Phil Alden Robinson, whose next film was “Field of Dreams,” made an amusing and lively movie about a local legend, Sonny Wisecarver (Patrick Dempsey), who as a 14-year-old Willowbrook youth eloped with a 21-year-old mother of two (Talia Balsam) a month before D-day.
The 1986 At Close Range (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) is strong stuff, but poorly told, about how two teen-age half-brothers (Sean Penn, Christopher Penn) are beguiled by their dangerous, long-absent father (Christopher Walken).
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