Though aimed at younger audiences, Rudyard Kipling’s...

Though aimed at younger audiences, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (ABC Sunday at 7 p.m.) makes a solid case for the nobility of the “wild child,” an Indian boy raised by wild animals. This being the ‘90s, gunshots and fireballs and vehicular peril must accompany his disappearance from civilization (some of this film’s mayhem, in fact, may be too extreme for younger moviegoers). Virtually the whole of Disney’s 1967 animated “Jungle Book”takes place here in the middle of a trick shot, where the tyke Mowgli steps behind some brush and emerges as the fully grown, fully buff Jason Scott Lee.

A rousing, good-looking action-adventure with romance and comedy, the 1994 Terminal Velocity (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) couldn’t be more up to the minute, yet its pleasures hark back to movies’ earliest days of exuberant, lightning-fast, cliffhanging serials of the silent era. Against mounting danger, director Deran Sarafian creates imaginative and amusing characters for Charlie Sheen and leading lady Nastassja Kinski to play to the hilt.

One Fine Day (HBO Sunday at 10:30 p.m. and 8 a.m.; Friday at 5 p.m.), a slick 1996 romantic fantasy for single parents who fear they’ll always have to go it alone, is fortunate in its casting. Not only does it have Michelle Pfeiffer, but it marks the emergence of George Clooney as a major romantic star, who possesses considerable roguish charm and handles himself with practiced aplomb. Pfeiffer and Clooney play well together as two single parents fearful of the opposite sex.

There’s a lot of disparaging talk in Tin Cup (HBO Wednesday at 8 p.m.) about laying up, which in golf terms means playing it safe. That heavy disapproval turns out to be ironic, because laying up is exactly what this 1996 movie does. A romantic comedy starring Kevin Costner as a ne’er-do-well golf pro who tries to turn his life around after he falls in love (with pupil Rene Russo, in a forced performance). This is Ron Shelton’s third sports-themed light romance (after “Bull Durham” and “White Men Can’t Jump”) and it retains traces of his idiosyncratic charm but is dispiritingly conventional and obvious.

With this captivating heart-tugger, A Simple Twist of Fate (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.),Steve Martin took an all-out plunge of basing this 1994 film on no less than George Eliot’s 1861 grim novel “Silas Marner.” What Martin, who also wrote the screenplay, and director Gillies MacKinnon have created in their free adaptation is a family film that might be best described as a serious comedy.

Note: The Gold Rush (1925) kicks off a Chaplin series on AMC early Sunday at 3 a.m. and The Virgin Spring (1959) launches an Ingmar Bergman cycle on Bravo Monday at 11:45 a.m.)