‘Guncrazy’

No matter how often we’ve seen it, if it’s done right--as this 1992 film was--there’s something endlessly watchable about violence-prone young lovers fighting off a fatalistic universe. Borrowing its title (here shortened to one word) and some broad concepts from Joseph Lewis’s 1949 film noir classic and “Bonnie and CLyde,” first-time director Tamra Davis and writer Matthew Bright have brought an empathetic approach to this latest version. Its small central California town setting is so drab and listless that many of its males view 16-year-old Anita (Drew Barrymore, right, with Ione Skye) as their primary source of entertainment. Anita is a study in isolation and despair when she begins a pen-pal relationship with an equally bereft prisoner (James LeGros) who has a violent past (Showtime Thursday at 10:05 p.m.).