STARRING MERYL STREEP
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Four of Meryl Streep’s movies are shown tonight as a TCM quadruple feature – and while all of them are good, a couple can be grouped among her “lesser” films. But that’s only because she’s made so many great ones, and one of those concludes tonight’s retrospective. The action begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1988’s A Cry in the Dark (the cry being, basically, “A dingo ate my baby!”). At 10:15 p.m. ET is the well-received wartime romance, 1981’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman, followed at 12:30 a.m. ET by 1990’s Postcards from the Edge, Mike Nichols’ directorial take on Carrie Fisher’s novel. Then, at the end, comes the crown jewel of this particular quartet: At 2:30 a.m. ET, 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer (pictured), in which Streep, the year after she was featured in the NBC miniseries Holocaust, takes what could have been a thankless role, and fleshes it out completely and empathically.