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September 16, 2009

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BUGSY
(Comcast Free Movies) Gleefully and stylishly, this big, slick gangster movie starring Warren Beatty feasts on the fact that mobster Bugsy Siegel and Hollywood were made for each other. A killer visionary, he repackaged the movies’ promise of self-reinvention in Las Vegas after selling to himself first. The commentary on Hollywood, American business, gangster movies and narcissism is more eventful than the love story between Bugsy and his flossy moll, Virginia Hill (Annette Bening, above with Beatty). (R; runs through Nov. 3)

GROUNDHOG DAY
(Comcast Free Movies) Bill Murray plays a crass and cocky TV weatherman who’s doomed to repeat Groundhog Day in a karmic time warp until he can get his life together. Andie MacDowell is his costar in this romantic comedy, which entertainingly turns Punxsutawney into Purgatory. (PG; runs through Oct. 27)

LITTLE WOMEN
(Comcast Free Movies) Hollywood’s third sound version of the Louisa May Alcott novel about a family of four girls growing up in Concord during the Civil War is an instant classic, thanks to Gillian Armstrong’s sympathetic direction, Winona Ryder’s strong Jo, pursuing a career as a writer, and Susan Sarandon’s wise, supportive mother, Marmee. Katharine Hepburn was terrific in George Cukor’s 1933 version; this one is even better. (PG; runs through Sept. 29)

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