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Shattered Dreams (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a provocative 1990 TV movie on domestic violence based on a case which achieved notoriety because the alleged abusive husband was John Fedders, director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lindsay Wagner and Michael Nouri star.

Somewhere inside the 1981 release The Devil and Max Devlin (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m.) a lively, well-thought script (by Mary Rodgers) struggles against layers of credibility-defying Disneyfication, with Elliott Gould bargaining for his soul with the devil’s assistant, Bill Cosby.

Draw! (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is an amusing, good-natured but overly familiar 1984 comedy-Western about an ex-outlaw (Kirk Douglas) who can’t shake his past and his old rival, ex-sheriff James Coburn.

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In the recent flurry of comics-derived movies, Sam Raimi’s 1990 Darkman (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) may in some ways be the best: the only one that successfully captures the graphic look, rhythm and style of the super-hero books. Liam Neeson stars as a horribly disfigured scientist.

He’s My Girl (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.; Friday at 2:30 a.m.), a frantic mixture of video rock satire and buddy-buddy sex comedy that comes out like “La Cage aux Folles” and “Some Like It Hot” squeezed through an MTV tube, is an interesting and risky idea gone bad in the telling.

The 1991 TV movie Darrow (KCET Wednesday at 9 p.m.) turns on a bloody event that shaped the economic and political history of Los Angeles, consolidated the power of the Los Angeles Times and cost the brilliant lawyer Clarence Darrow (Kevin Spacey) a devastating setback at the height of his career.

Miles from Home (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m., next Sunday at 2 a.m.) is a decent-hearted, well-intentioned, extremely well-acted 1988 movie you’d like to get behind. Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson star as brothers about to lose their farm.

HBO’s Age-Old Friends (CBS Friday at 9 p.m.) gave us the performance of the season (December, 1989) in the story of the season; Hume Cronyn, in a gorgeous piece of acting, and Vincent Gardenia, who beautifully plays the secondary role, star as residents for the relatively affluent elderly--the first is alert but arthritic, the second fit but slipping into mental confusion.

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