OCEAN’S ELEVEN (2001)
ITV1, 9pm
Steven Soderbergh’s breezy Rat Pack remake is an all-star affair based on Lewis Milestone’s clunky Frank Sinatra caper comedy from 1960. George Clooney steps into the Sinatra role of Danny Ocean, a roguish ex-convict who assembles a team of slick criminal experts to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously. Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts co-star, although the grizzled old-timers Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould hog the best lines. The plot is full of holes, but the suits look sharp and the dialogue generally sizzles, which is more than can be said for the inferior sequel that followed in 2004. (116 min)
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REGARDING HENRY (1991)
Five, 9pm
Harrison Ford stars as a high-flying Manhattan lawyer who is reduced to a sweetly childlike amnesiac by a random street shooting. Henry Turner (Ford) survives a bullet to the brain, but his personality is altered for ever. He now has unlimited time for his neglected wife (Annette Bening) and daughter (Mikki Allen), but no interest in his unethical yuppie past. Not even the heavyweight director Mike Nichols (whose last film, Closer, brought out Clive Owen’s best performance) can make this corny mix of Being There and Rain Man seem remotely plausible, but the cast is excellent and the script unexpectedly funny. (108 min)
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AT FIRST SIGHT (1999)
BBC One, 11.40pm; Wales, 12.10am
Irwin Winkler’s romantic weepie stars Val Kilmer as a blind man who suddenly regains his sight and finds true love. Sparks fly when Virgil Adamson (Kilmer) falls for an architect, Amy Benic (Mira Sorvino), who steers him into the surgery of a medical miracle worker (Bruce Davison). Based on a case study by the celebrated psychiatrist Oliver Sacks, Winkler’s film is no less unsubtle than Awakenings, but still poignant and finely acted. (128 min)