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SATURDAY JULY 8

JUST LIKE HEAVEN

Not her perkiest performance

TVNZ 2, 7.00pm

One of the two Reese Witherspoons in this sugary mystical romcom, also starring Mark Ruffalo as the guy who turns up in her San Francisco apartment claiming he’s the tenant, spends most of the movie in a coma. Take that as a warning. (2005)

EMU RUNNER

Fast feathered friend

Whakaata Māori, 7.00pm

Quietly thoughtful Australian coming-of-age film about Gem, a nine-year-old Indigenous girl and keen runner who bonds with a wild emu after the death of her mother while her grieving family comes

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