Finnegan On Films: Five Movies To Watch On Easter Saturday

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Our movie guy, James Finnegan, has some Easter eggs of joy for you to unwrap on the box tonight…

“When you’re reaching for a star, there’s a long way to fall”

There are generally more light-hearted stories in today’s films showing on RTE1, RTE2 and TG4. Roxanne (Saturday 3.40pm RTE1) is Steve Martin’s witty adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac.

He also stars as Charlie ‘CD’ Bales, a fireman who is afraid to purse a beautiful astronomer, Roxanne Kowalski (Daryl Hannah) because, despite being witty and intelligent, he is very sensitive about his rather large nose.

Roxanne likes Charlie as a friend, but is attracted to handsome Chris (Rick Rossovich).

Chris gets nervous around women, so when both of them ask CD to help woo each other, there is plenty of romantic comic conflict in store.

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Wasn’t it wonderful to see recent Oscar Best Supporting Actor Winner Ke Huy Quan and the many photos of his reunions during Awards season with his Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Saturday 4.55 RTE2) collaborators.

The resourceful archaeologist, played by Harrison Ford, travels to India where, with the help of Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and Short Round (Ke Huy Quan), he is asked by desperate villagers to save their children and retrieve sacred stones from an evil cult.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, with an epic score by John Williams, this might be a little scary for the younger viewers, but is a typical action adventure spectacle.

Tralee has a well deserved reputation as a basketball town, so there are people far more capable than I to talk about Space Jam: A New Legacy (Saturday 6.35pm RTE1), an animation and live action combination.

An artificial intelligence, AI-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle) captures famed NBA player LeBron James (playing a fictionalised version of himself) and his son Dom.

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Al-G challenges LeBron to, guess what, a basketball match against his digitised champions, the Goon Squad.  LeBron then enlists the help of the Looney Tunes gang, including Bugs Bunny, to win the game and get his son back.

Be ready for an awful lots of product placement in this, dare I say ACME, version of childhood cartoon favourites.

In Stephen Frears excellent production of The Snapper (Saturday 9.15pm RTE1), Tina Kelliher plays twenty year old Sharon Curley, whose refusal to name the father of her unborn child.

This causes no end of gossip among the neighbours to the discomfort of her protective Dad (Colm Meaney), Mum (Ruth McCabe) and siblings.

This is the second, and in my opinion, best of the Barrytown Trilogy, and adapted from the novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle.

About Schmidt (Saturday 9.30pm TG4) sees Jack Nicholson take on another of his Academy Award nomination roles as Warren Schmidt, a frustrated sixty something retired actuary who is finding it hard to adjust to his new life.

He decides to sponsor a Tanzanian orphan to whom he relates his life in a series of rambling correspondence as well as trying to stop his daughter marrying the wrong man. Enjoy!

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