Even in its ineffectual moments, of which...

Even in its ineffectual moments, of which there are many, True Identity (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.) reveals Charles Lane to be a filmmaker with an engaging sensibility and a nicely idiosyncratic style. This 1991 comedy centers around a struggling young black actor (Lenny Henry), whose fateful meeting with a Mafia kingpin (Frank Langella) results in a parade of disguises by Henry.

Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a black comedy so pleased with its blackness that it frequently forgets to be funny. Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis star in this 1992 movie about rival actresses and their obsession with youth.

More listless than funny, the 1992 Boomerang (KABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is basically a multimillion-dollar vanity project, a misguided whatever-Eddie Murphy-wants-Eddie-gets attempt to reposition him in the cinematic firmament. He plays a suave ladykiller who meets his match when he meets his gorgeous new boss (Robin Givens).

Duel (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is that tense 1971 Steven Spielberg TV movie with Dennis Weaver as a businessman in a rented car inexplicably menaced by a diesel truck.

Walter Hill’s 1992 comic crime thriller Trespass (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is deliberately outrageous: a tale of a standoff between a vicious gang of drug dealers and two treasure-hunting Arkansas firemen in a crumbling East St. Louis textile factory. Hill and his writer-producers, the Robert Zemeckis-Bob Gale team, whip up a nightmare riff on racial paranoia. Action-movie fans should like it; others may recoil. With Bill Paxton, Ice-T, Bill Sadler, Ice Cube and Art Evans.

The only thing to really say about the 1988 Casual Sex? (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is that it proves you don’t have to be a man to make lewd, preposterous comedies. Written by Judy Toll and Wendy Goldman and directed by Genevieve Robert, it stars Lea Thompson and Victoria Jackson as visitors to a swinging health farm in pursuit of aerobics and eros.

John Ford’s entertaining 1935 comedy The Whole Town’s Talking (KCET Saturday at 10:30 p.m.) stars Edward G. Robinson as a timid clerk who has the misfortune to be a dead ringer for a notorious gangster.