Flix: February 9, 2010

6:30AM
The Big Kahuna
Three industrial lubricant salesmen wait impatiently and with great anxiety for a potential client they've dubbed "the Big Kahuna" whose hoped-for product order could save their company's dwindling fortunes. Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito and Peter Facinelli star in this sharp, witty adaptation of the play "Hospitality Suite."
8:05AM
Rugrats In Paris: The Movie
The Finsters and the Pickles travel to the City of Lights, where Chucky hopes that his dad Chas will find him a new mother while he repairs the malfunctioning reptiles at a European dinosaur theme park. Based on the beloved Nickelodeon series, this animated family adventure features the voices of Christine Cavanaugh, Elizabeth Daily, Susan Sarandon, Michael Bell, Cheryl Chase, John Lithgow, Debbie Reynolds, Mako, Casey Kasem and Tim Curry.
9:25AM
Critical Care
A doctor (James Spader) is caught in the crossfire of two sisters who disagree on whether or not their terminally ill father should undergo a life-sustaining procedure. Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren and Albert Brooks costar in this medical comedy-drama.
11:15AM
Stateside
A troubled teenager (Jonathan Tucker) who escapes prosecution for a drunk-driving accident by enlisting in the Marine Corps finds true love with a famous singer and actress (Rachael Leigh Cook) whose career is jeopardized by her worsening mental illness. Loosely based on a true story, writer/director Reverge Anselmo's drama costars Carrie Fisher, Val Kilmer, Agnes Bruckner, Diane Venora, Joe Mantegna and Ed Begley Jr.
12:55PM
Alambrista!
An ambitious Mexican man (Domingo Ambriz) who wants to support his growing family slips across the U.S. border to seek work but finds himself tragically exploited by American employers in this intimate, independent drama, the directing debut of Robert M. Young.
2:35PM
On The Yard
This gritty, unflinching drama takes a realistic look at prison life by following four incarcerated characters as they struggle to survive in a brutal environment. John Heard, Thomas Waites, Mike Kellin, Joe Grifasi and Lane Smith star in this provocative film.
4:20PM
De-Lovely
Kevin Kline stars in this acclaimed biography of famed songwriter Cole Porter, whose rise to fame and fortune coincides with his marriage to Linda Thomas (Ashley Judd), a woman who will love him for life despite knowing that her husband is gay. Jonathan Pryce costars in this Golden Globe-nominated musical drama that also features appearances from several real-life musicians such as Elvis Costello and Alanis Morissette.
6:30PM
Carbon Copy
A white, middle-aged California business executive is shocked to learn that he has an African-American teenage son, a revelation that costs him his marriage and his job, reducing him to a life of manual labor that ironically helps him connect with his newfound offspring. George Segal, Denzel Washington (in his feature film debut) and Susan St. James star in this satirical comedy.
8:05PM
Rugrats In Paris: The Movie
The Finsters and the Pickles travel to the City of Lights, where Chucky hopes that his dad Chas will find him a new mother while he repairs the malfunctioning reptiles at a European dinosaur theme park. Based on the beloved Nickelodeon series, this animated family adventure features the voices of Christine Cavanaugh, Elizabeth Daily, Susan Sarandon, Michael Bell, Cheryl Chase, John Lithgow, Debbie Reynolds, Mako, Casey Kasem and Tim Curry.
9:30PM
Mr. North
The directorial debut of Danny Huston, son of the legendary John Huston, this charming comic fantasy stars Anthony Edwards ("ER") as a recent Ivy League graduate who moves to a small Rhode Island town in the 1920's and bedazzles the locals with his ability to heal by passing electrical currents through his hands. Robert Mitchum, Anjelica Huston, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton and Virginia Madsen costar in this light-hearted fable based on the novel "Theophilus North" by Thornton Wilder.
11:05PM
To Die For (1995)
Nicole Kidman won a Golden Globe for her provocative performance in this scathing social satire as an ambitious local television personality bent on achieving fame, even if it means hiring three dimwitted local teenagers to murder her husband. Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Kurtwood Smith, Dan Hedaya and Holland Taylor costar in this acclaimed, darkly funny film from director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Buck Henry, based on the novel by Joyce Maynard.
1:00AM
Paid in Full
Wood Harris and Mekhi Phifer star in this drama set during the 1980s, when Ace, a young man working for a dry cleaning store, takes the easy route to fame and fortune by dealing cocaine for a local drug kingpin (Esai Morales). Chi McBride and Regina Hall costar in this gritty crime yarn from the director of "Drumline."
2:40AM
On The Edge (2002)
A trio of veterans from the streets teams up to get revenge on a drug gang that thinks it rules their turf - but the dealers are about to get old schooled by some original gangsters. Fred Williamson, Bernie Casey, Ron O'Neal and Gary Busey star in this hard-hitting action drama.
4:20AM
Assassination Tango
Robert Duvall wrote, directed and plays the lead in this passionate portrait of an intense mob hit man who unlocks his artistic side while on a business trip. John J. (Duvall) leaves the domestic bliss of his Brooklyn girlfriend (Kathy Baker) and her young daughter (Katherine Micheaux Miller) to take an assignment rubbing out a wealthy general in Buenos Aires. However, while unexpectedly detained in Argentina, he becomes enthralled by performers at a local dance club and asks one of the instructors (Luciana Pedraza) for tango lessons.

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