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THE REST OF THE WEEK’S NOTEWORTHY FILMS

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

It’s too bad so much of the 1985 Target (KTLA, Monday at 8 p.m., again on Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a conventional spy thriller with high-speed chases, because at its heart it is an honest father-and-son estrangement that comes to a boil when the father (Gene Hackman), a Dallas businessman, resumes secret agentry after 20 years. Matt Dillon plays the son.

Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller and Joseph Wiseman have some of the best moments of their careers in Seize the Day (KCET, Monday at 9 p.m.), which Fielder Cook directed from the Saul Bellow novella about a sweet loser (Williams) treated barbarously by his ice-cold father (Wiseman) and exploited cruelly, though hilariously, by a con man (Stiller, in the role of a lifetime).

Stalag 17 (KTTV, Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is Billy Wilder ‘s 1953 prisoner of war comedy-drama classic, which earned William Holden an Oscar as a sergeant in Otto Preminger’s POW camp.

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Highly implausible but intermittently entertaining, the 1987 Suspect (KCBS, Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.) stars Cher as a public defender trying to help a suspect in a killing-and getting a highly illegal assist from slick jury member Dennis Quaid.

Neighbors (KCOP, Friday at 8 p.m.) is a 94-minute exercise in humiliation passed off as comedy-loud, obnoxious Dan Aykroyd drives quiet, sedate neighbor John Belushi nuts. Sadly, this 1981 release was Belushi’s last.

In the quietly endearing 1982 Tex (KTLA, Saturday at 6 p.m.), Matt Dillon stars as an impoverished, small-town Oklahoma 15-year-old. He’s one of a group of likable, resilient teen-agers, some trapped by the burden of too-early maturity, getting on with their lives, yet valuing the bonds of friendship and family.

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The Room Upstairs (KCAL, Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a decent but underwritten 1987 TV movie in which Stockard Channing stars as a woman gifted in working with retarded and abused children but unwilling or unable to connect with adults.

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