Sleepy-eyed, sexy and vulnerable, Nicolas Cage made...

Sleepy-eyed, sexy and vulnerable, Nicolas Cage made a terrific film debut in Martha Coolidge’s sweet, fast, unpretentious, funny and even touching Valley Girl (KCAL Sunday at 3 p.m.) as a working-class Hollywood High Romeo who falls for a nice, decent and affluent Juliet (Deborah Foreman, in the title role). Neat twist to this 1983 film: Foreman’s parents, time-warp hippies (Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp) seem younger that their daughter.

John Hughes’ sometimes funny, sometimes tasteless National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) offers a hideous vision of a suburban Christmas gone totally amok but encased in a sentimental overview-like a Norman Rockwell portrait with a punk-rock backbeat.

Movies inspired by video games are a tacit admission that the filmmakers couldn’t come up with any idea better than replicating two-dimensional characters that exist only as fuzzy images battering one another senseless in mall arcades. That’s the case with the interminable 1994 Street Fighter (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), in which Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Col. Guile, who leads an insurrection against the ‘power-mad dictator’ Gen. Bison (Raul Julia) in a piece of real estate called Shadaloo. After 95 minutes of random explosions, jaw-dropping plot holes, wooden acting and special effects that would have made Ed Wood Jr. proud, the good guys claim victory, pick up their toys and go home.

Tom Flynn’s scintillating yet serious 1993 romantic comedy Watch It (KCOP Saturday at noon) stars Peter Gallagher as a young Texan visiting his cousin (Jon Tenney) in a Chicago suburban home. Tenney and his two roommates (John C. McGinley and Tom Sizemore) are all dedicated-and potentially nasty-pranksters. Flynn comments on the all-American tendency of men to grow older without growing up as Gallagher, meanwhile, finds his cousin’s girlfriend (a radiant Suzy Amis), propelled into his own arms.

About Last Night . . . (ABC Saturday at 9 p.m.), the 1986 film version of playwright David Mamet’s taut, vitriolic, dazzlingly funny “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” turns it into a hilarious, insightful, bawdy love story. Rob Lowe and Demi Moore play a pair of Chicago singles who are thrown by their playful, above par one-night stand.