Your TV Guide to the Week - Sept 2nd, 2022

Striptease

Length: 1hr 55min
Mood: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Director: Andrew Bergman
Starring: Demi Moore, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames

Erin Grant loses custody of her child to her deadbeat ex-husband after losing her job. To make the money she needs to appeal the verdict, she takes a job at ''The Eager Beaver'', a local strip bar. She unwittingly gets caught up in the fetishes, fantasies, and felonies of various patrons, including an ambitious bouncer, the sleazy club owner, underworld figures, and an United States Congressman.

Appaloosa

Length: 1hr 55min
Mood: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Ed Harris
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger

1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as Marshal and Deputy, respectively. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg , a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves to be difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allison than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy?

Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Length: 1hr 56min
Mood: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Darren Grant
Starring: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore

Helen and Charles McCarter had everything: fine home, beautiful clothes, and success. In public, they were the perfect match. But behind the scenes was another matter. On what should have been the end of the happiest day of their lives, Charles evicts Helen, his wife of 18 years, out of their house in the presence of his mistress. Helen then goes from meek and mild to mad, starts a diary and a new life.

Banana Split

Length: 1hr 28min
Mood: Comedy
Director: Benjamin Kasulke
Starring: Hannah Marks, Liana Liberato, Dylan Sprouse

After a messy break-up with her high school boyfriend, April strikes up an unexpected friendship with his new girlfriend, Clara.

Love Wrecked

Length: 1hr 27min
Mood: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Jonathan Bennett

On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.

Once Upon a Time in Venice

Length: 1hr 34min
Mood: Action, Comedy
Director: Mark Cullen
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jason Momoa, John Goodman

Los Angeles-based private detective Steve Ford lives a care-free life. After performing a favor for a friend, Ford runs afoul of a local gang. The gang's leader Spyder seeks revenge and steals Ford's dog. In order to recover the dog, Ford is forced into a sequence of convoluted and intertwined tasks across the Venice area.

The Salvation

Length: 1hr 32min
Mood: Drama, Thriller, Action
Director: Kristian Levring
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Eric Cantona

Former Danish soldier Jon lives in a wild frontier town in 1870s America. After being separated from his family for seven long years, his wife and son finally start making their way to him, but unfortunately they do not survive the journey. Devastated, Jon goes on a revenge killing spree after learning that his family was murdered.

The Resident

Length: 1hr
Mood: Action, Drama, Thriller
Creators: Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore, Roshan Sethi
Starring: Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp, Manish Dayal

An idealistic young doctor begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern-day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered.