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Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch star in “Bonnie & Clyde,” airing Sunday and Monday on Lifetime, History and A&E Network. Sophie Lowe stars in “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland’’ Thursdays on ABC.

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Bonnie and Clyde captivated the public as they went on a bloody bank-robbing spree 80 years ago, and Lifetime, History and A&E Network hope the public’s fascination continues as they premiere “Bonnie & Clyde” Sunday and Monday, Dec. 8 and 9. After History’s surprise huge hit with the “Hatfields & McCoys” miniseries, broadcasters have been looking for another chapter of American history that resonates the same way: familiar but not too familiar. This four-hour miniseries, starring Emile Hirsch (“Into the Wild”) and Holliday Grainger (“The Borgias”), was in the works before the History hit. It has a cinematic feel and takes a few risks, particularly with showing Clyde’s sixth sense and Bonnie’s hysteria and presenting the story in a leisurely fashion. “It is a morality story and has some parallels to our modern era,” Hirsch says. “They were almost the original reality TV stars. They were playing out their lives in the media, and that is an interesting parallel. “I feel like something about the Bonnie and Clyde story will appeal to people for generations and generations,” Hirsch continues. “It is a real love story that is flawed and tragic. As horrible as they were, the one thing that was always consistent, that never changed, was their love for each other.” The film does a great job of capturing the period, the costumes, cars and feel of the Depression. People may think

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Emile Hirsch and Holliday Grainge raped and beaten. He never intended to kill during the robberies; Bonnie was the trigger-happy one. Bonnie married young and was abandoned by her husband. She had a flair for the dramatic, wrote poetry and desperately wanted to be in the movies. “She is very intelligent and quite manipulative but very vain and shallow and selfish and singleminded in that she has an aim for her life to get out of certain situations,” Grainger says. “She is almost a fame-hungry reality TV star. She wants to get her name known somehow. She is quite ruthless in that way, but at the same time the part of Bonnie that

really came out is just this lost little girl. She was such a mommy’s girl but needs to be loved as much as she is manipulating. She thrives on the love and affection and needy vanity and needs to be recognized by someone.” Bonnie and Clyde killed nine officers, or “laws” as they were called, and a few civilians in their wake before they died in a hail of bullets on May 23, 1934. Bonnie was 23, Clyde 25. Despite the bloody robberies and their transient existence, they were in love. And it was this romance that drew Lifetime to the project, says Rob Sharenow, the network’s general manager.

THE VIEW FROM THE COUCH

By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it (Ratings for each film begin with a “star” rating — one star meaning “poor,” four meaning “excellent” — followed by the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and then by a family-viewing guide, the key for which appears below.) STARTING THIS WEEK (New releases): “DESPICABLE ME 2”: This animated sequel was more than a raging success at the box office; it also has a place in film history ... as the most profitable movie in

they know the story well, but the miniseries aims to reveal who they were beyond the bank robberies. Clyde is shown to have suffered a serious fever as child, and after that he was said to have a sixth sense. He had visions, including one of Bonnie, long before he met her. He first saw Bonnie at her wedding, and even the fact that she was married did not deter Clyde. Bonnie is given to weeping fits, and only her mom (Holly Hunter) can calm her. Until she began working on this, Grainger was among those who thought she knew the story well. “I was very aware of Bonnie and Clyde growing up, in the way you know about Romeo and Juliet and Thelma and Louise,” Grainger says. “It wasn’t until I started researching the part, and I realized how quite short their lives on the road were. It was only two years. It must have been a long two years, constantly moving.” The miniseries reminds us how they held up small banks for tiny amounts. This being the Depression, people had no sympathy for the banks. But they developed a kinship with Bonnie and Clyde because of a newspaper reporter, P.J. Lane (Elizabeth Reaser, “The Twilight Saga”), who wrote sympathetic stories. Her reporting drove Texas Ranger Frank Hamer (William Hurt) crazy. He explains that police usually nab the bad guys based on tips from the public, but because of Lane’s stories, no one was turning in Bonnie and Clyde. Clyde, long a thief, had done time in prison, where he was

“Despicable Me 2” the history of Universal Pictures to date. Steve Carell returns as the voice of the now-domesticated Gru, brought back into a life of excitement by the Anti-Villain League,

which wants him to find the thief who made off with a dangerous serum. Russell Brand, Kristen Wiig and Miranda Cosgrove also lend their voices again, with Benjamin Bratt heard as well. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries; audio commentary by directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin. ››› (PG: AS) (Also on Blu-ray; premieres Dec. 24 on On Demand) “FAST & FURIOUS 6”: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and company literally are back in action in another chapter of the franchise that was a huge hit. Dwayne Johnson also returns from the previous installment as the CIA man who

enlists Dom (Diesel) and the crew to stop a dangerous gang of drivers — including, to Dom’s great surprise, his supposedly deceased love Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). Jordana Brewster and Tyrese Gibson also reprise their earlier roles, and Luke Evans plays the leader of the villains. ››› (PG-13 and unrated versions: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “ADORE”: Naomi Watts and Robin Wright play longtime friends whose relationship may come apart over their new love interests — each other’s sons — in this drama, adapted by Christopher Hampton (“Dangerous Liaisons”) from a Doris Lessing novel. Xavier

Samuel and James Frecheville play the young men who unwittingly inspire the discord between their mothers. Sophie Lowe, alias Alice in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland,” also appears. Anne Fontaine (“Coco Before Chanel”) directed. ››› (R: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “BATTLE OF THE YEAR”: Dance moves are plentiful in this drama about an international competition. Josh Holloway (“Lost”) and Josh Peck (“Drake & Josh”) play the coaches of the team intent on bringing the trophy home for America, but others clearly have the skills to take the win for their respective countries, too. Music’s

Chris Brown also is featured in the familiar-feeling tale. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries. ›› (PG-13: AS, P) (Also on Bluray and On Demand) “MAN OF TAI CHI”: Keanu Reeves has an acting role in this adventure, but he has an even bigger role on it behind the cameras ... as a first-time director. The title part actually belongs to Tiger Hu Chen, a stunt expert who worked with Reeves in the “Matrix” series; his character is a martial arts expert sought by a Beijing fight club operator (Reeves) to use his skills for profit, however dangerous it ultimately may become. ››› (R: AS, P, V) (Also on On Demand)

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