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‘The Portrait’

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In this splendid 1993 cable production, Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall are radiant together, catching the afterglow of a lengthy, golden marriage that now is moving on, gathering up its house treasures for a quieter life in a cottage. But nobody’s nodding off: Besides being a drama about time’s fleeting chariot, this is a parent-child story in which the couple’s artist daughter (Cecilia Peck, pictured, Peck’s actual daughter) has come for much more than painting her parents’ portrait. Directed by Arthur Penn from Lynn Roth’s adroit adaptation of the Tina Howe play “Painting Churches.” (KCAL Sunday at 6 p.m.)

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