Finnegan On Films: Three Saturday Night Movies To Consider

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Our movie guy, James Finnegan, pick three very different films on offer this Saturday on the television…

When it comes to The Addams Family (Saturday 6.35pm RTE1), I am a fan of all the incarnations of this macabre group.

From the original Charles Addams New Yorker Cartoons, the 1960’s television series (the finger snapping theme song is going through your head right now isn’t it?), the live action films and, of course, the almost inevitable stage musical.

I think the enduring charm of the stories is that if you take away the ghoulish outside appearance of the characters, this is a rather charming story of a family who love each other.

In this animated version, Gomez (Oscar Isaac) and Morticia (Charlize Theron) get ready for their midnight wedding in the old country, but it is interrupted by a mob with pitchforks and torches so beloved from the times of Universal and Hammer Horror films.

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Gomez promises to find them a home that no one in their right mind would be caught in – hence their move to a deserted asylum in New Jersey!

Thirteen years later, Wednesday (Chloe Grace Moretz) and Pugsley (Finn Wolfhard) have arrived.  The former wants to go to the local school while the latter is about to undergo the traditional family coming of age ceremony.  What could possibly go wrong?

With additional supporting vocal talents such as Nick Kroll (Uncle Fester), Bette Midler (Grandma) and Allison Janney, Martin Short and Pom Klementieff, this is a fun family Saturday evening film, with a sequel due to be released soon.

Daddy’s Home (Saturday 9.30pm RTE2) stars Will Farrell as Brad Whitaker, a gentle soul doing his best to be a good husband to Sara (Linda Cardellini) and stepfather to her children Megan and Dylan.

All seems to be going well until Dusty (Mark Wahlberg), Sara’s former partner and biological father to the children, turns up.

Dusty obviously has designs on getting back with Sara, and seeks to ingratiate himself back into the kids’ good books by getting them a dog, finishing a tree house and generally showing Brad in a bad light by being the “cool dad”.  However, being a father is not that easy.

This is a pretty broad comedy as one might imagine with the cast, and there is a reason it is on late on a Saturday night, but it was phenomenally successful and has spawned at least one sequel.

If ever you wondered what it would be like to be caught adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after a hurricane, with a damaged boat and no radio, Adrift (Saturday 10.38pm TG4) is the film for you.

Based on a true story, Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) meet up and, as Richard is a sailor, they make plans to sail to Japan together.

However, they get an even better offer to sail a luxury yacht back to California.  Richard then proposes to Tami and she accepts. Unfortunately en route, they get word of the approaching Hurricane Redmond. Enjoy and stay safe!

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