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SATURDAY JANUARY 4

Crazy, Stupid, Love (TVNZ 2, 8.30pm). Steve Carrell reprises a role similar to that of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but this affectionate film doesn’t have a mean or smutty bone in its body. The recent divorcee is helped by a chiselled womanising Ryan Gosling to find his groove. With great performances by Marisa Tomei, Emma Stone and Julianne Moore. (2011)

. A powerful historical crime drama by Clint Eastwood that tells the true story of a mother (Angelina Jolie) who is reunited with her missing son, who turns out not

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