COMING TO AMERICA (1988)
ITV1, 11pm
Eddie Murphy was reunited with the Trading Places director John Landis to make this warm-hearted culture-clash comedy that is bigger on charm than laughs. Murphy hams it up royally as Prince Akeem, the pampered scion of a super-rich African dynasty who goes under cover in New York to find a wife. Largely conceived by its star, the film is a technical triumph for Rick Baker’s make-up, radically transforming Murphy’s appearance in four different small roles. Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy, the cynical billionaires who ended up penniless in Trading Places, make a witty cameo appearance. (116 min)
NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964)
TCM, 11pm
In the middle of his most critically lauded decade, Richard Burton starred in this steamy Tennessee Williams adaptation by John Huston. Burton plays a defrocked clergyman, T. Lawrence Shannon, now boozing away his autumn years as a Mexican tour guide. Assailed on all sides by puritanical matrons, would-be nymphomaniacs and spinsters — including Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr — Shannon must finally face reality during one long sultry night. (125 min)
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)
BBC One, 11.35pm; Wales, 12.05am
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Written by John Hughes in less than a week, The Breakfast Club has passed into screen legend for reasons far beyond its debatable merits as a film. Essentially one long bonding session set in the weekend detention class at an Illinois high school, it is now ironically celebrated for its cheesy dialogue and painfully earnest teenage angst, but also fondly remembered for its attractive young cast of future Brat Pack burn-outs — Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall. (92 min)