On Demand picks

November 03, 2009

HEARTBREAKERS

(Comcast Movies and Events) Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play mother-daughter scam artists on the prowl for gullible zillionaires in Florida. The comedy has some laughs, a lot of slack, and a damaging move into sentimentality. Jason Lee is a plus as Hewitt’s nice-guy mark, Gene Hackman is a howl as a nasty tobacco mogul, and you’re inclined to cut the film a little slack for making the connection between larceny and the home of the hanging chad. (PG-13; runs through Nov. 13)

FLASHDANCE

(Comcast Movies and Events) Boasting high-powered dance scenes, a cooking soundtrack, and a sensitive performance by Jennifer Beals, this campy story about a would-be Pittsburgh dancer is glib but entertaining. (R; runs through Nov. 13)

GIRL 6

(Comcast Movies and Events) Spike Lee’s view of phone sex as something no black woman’s gotta have. One of the ways the industry degrades and depersonalizes a struggling actress, played by Theresa Randle, is that it denies her blackness when her name becomes a number and she becomes a disembodied voice. Randle is enormously appealing, but a stronger script and characterization would have been welcome. (R; runs through Nov. 13)