What to Watch on TV this Weekend: Chloe's Guide

Dec. 2–4, 2016

Here are a few suggestions for what to watch on the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend.

Ever After (1998)

Friday, Dec. 2- Starz- 1:35

Inspired by the fairytale of Cinderella, Ever After removes the supernatural elements of its source material and instead explores an angle of post-feminism, historical fiction set in Renaissance-era France. The film opens with a 19th-century Grande Dame, who summons the Brothers Grimm to her palace, where the brothers discuss their interpretation of the Cinderella legend. The Grande Dame shows the pair a glass slipper before beginning her story of Danielle de Barbarac, the true Cinderella.

Ever After stars Drew Barrymore as Danielle de Barbarac alongside Anjelica Huston, who plays Danielle's heartless step-mother; Dougray Scott as Prince Henry, Megan Dodds and Melanie Lynskey as Danielle's juxtaposed step-sisters and Patrick Godfrey as Leonardo da Vinci. The film involves a number of historical figures, places and events despite its fictional storyline, including explorer Jacques Cartier, author Charles Perrault, the French colonies in the New World and the University of France.

Search Party

Saturday, Dec. 3 - TBS- 11 p.m.

The debut season of single-camera dark comedy Search Party follows the 10-episode journey of four self-absorbed millennial friends who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance, Chantal, disappears. Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) stars as Dory, the human doormat, who finds herself at an especially unfulfilling point in her life and makes it her personal mission to find Chantal—while bringing her friends along for the proverbial ride. Search Party leads viewers down a winding road, but speculations running rampant for characters and audience alike as the show's looming conundrum deepens at every turn. The season in its entirety has also been made available online.

Big Hero 6 (2014)

Sunday, Dec. 4 - Starz Encore - 7:15 p.m.

Big Hero 6 is the 54th animated feature film from Disney, doing justice to such coup with a comprehensive storyline that is full of ambition, adventure, energy and—most of all—heart. Based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, the film focuses on young, robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who forms a superhero team in order to combat an elusive villain. Big Hero 6 features the voices of Ryan Potter, T.J. Miller (Silicon Valley, Deadpool), Damon Wayans, Jr., Jamie Chung, Génesis Rodríguez (Sex Ed), Maya Rudolph and Alan Tudyk, earning a worldwide, estimated total of $657.8 million. It is the third-highest-grossing Disney animated film in the U.S. and Canada behind The Lion King and Frozen.

Nine Lives (2016)

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Kevin Spacey stars as a workaholic father and business tycoon who has his mind trapped inside his daughter's new cat. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family, Addams Family Values), Nine Lives also features Jennifer Garner, Christopher Walken and Cheryl Hines. The English-language French comedy, appropriate for audiences preteen age and older, grossed a worldwide total of $44,262,661 against a budget of $30 million and has since been released on DVD.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

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Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children stars Eva Green as Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Asa Butterfield, Chris O'Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell and Judi Dench in a fairytale of curious proportions. Sixteen-year-old Jake Portman (Butterfield) follows clues to a mystery that spans various worlds and times, left behind, like, breadcrumbs, by Jake's grandfather. He discovers a place more magical than he could have imagined, but mystery and peril deepen as Jake begins to learn of the home's residents and enemies.

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