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Ladyhawke (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.), an...

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Ladyhawke (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.), an enchanting, handsomely produced medieval fantasy, finds lovers Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer separated by the black arts of a jealous, defrocked bishop. Matthew Broderick plays their unlikely ally, a scruffy, endearing pickpocket in this 1985 winner.

Out of Africa (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m., concluding Tuesday at 8 p.m.), Sydney Pollack’s lush 1985 release, takes us to unspoiled Kenya in 1914 with the Danish aristocrat Karen Blixen, who became a storyteller of the first order under her pen name Isak Dinessen--and was enough of a snob to marry a title (a witty Klaus Maria Brandauer as her husband, a baron). There’s much that’s wonderful about the film, starting with Meryl Streep as the extraordinarily gifted and complex Blixen and the film’s glorious settings.

The 1984 All of Me (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) finds the spirit of Lily Tomlin, playing a deceased millionairess, inhabiting the body of her lawyer, Steve Martin, a jazz lover of no fixed ambitions. The results may be somewhat less than hilarious, but the stars are terrific--and the 1984 picture does get better as it goes along.

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The Final Countdown (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.), a 1980 release, cleverly asks us to imagine that a contemporary aircraft carrier, skippered by Kirk Douglas, zips back across 40 years of time to intercept the Japanese air fleet en route to Pearl Harbor.

Paul Brickman’s 1983 Risky Business (KCOP Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is that hugely popular comedy-fantasy about a young man (Tom Cruise) who, under the sway of seductive hooker Rebecca DeMornay, turns his family’s handsome suburban Chicago home into a brothel while his parents are away.

A strong 1980 prison drama, Brubaker (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a superior, shocking expose in which the good guy (Robert Redford) plays Tom Murphy, a feisty and uncompromising Arkansas prison reformer.

A brutal, fast-moving and fairly crass 1981 action flick about love, corruption and politics in Atlanta, Sharky’s Machine (KCOP Wednesday at 8 p.m.) stars Burt Reynolds as Sharky. Best remembered for Rachel Ward as a sultry, expensive hooker.

The smart, affectionate 1989 comedy Breaking In (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) felicitously teams Burt Reynolds as a veteran safecracker and Casey Siemaszko as a newcomer to the trade--and also director Bill Forsyth and writer John Sayles; it’s a winner all the way--up to its unsatisfying finish.

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