Today's Sundance highlights

Published: Saturday, Jan. 22 2005 12:00 a.m. MST

"Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story" is a documentary-competition film about a boxing match in 1962.

For tickets or more complete listings, go to www.sundance.org.

PARK CITY

8:30 a.m., Racquet Club: "The Matador," with Pierce Brosnan as a lonely hit man in Mexico City; Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis co-star.

9:15 a.m., Eccles: "Ellie Parker," a dramatic-competition film, stars Naomi Watts as a Los Angeles actress trying to find herself; Chevy Chase co-stars.

10 a.m., Holiday IV: "Murderball," a documentary-competition film, is about quadriplegic athletes who play "quad rugby," which combines soccer with a demolition derby.

11:30 a.m., Racquet Club: "Lonesome Jim," a dramatic-competition film, directed by character actor Steve Buscemi, has a young man (Casey Affleck) on the heels of failure, returning from New York to his Midwest home, only to be reminded of why he left; with Liv Tyler, Mary Kaye Place, Seymour Cassel.

Noon, Eccles: "Loggerheads," a dramatic-competition film that intertwines three Mother's Day stories, with Bonnie Hunt, Tess Harper, Chris Sarandon and Michael Learned.

Noon, Egyptian: "Brothers," a Danish drama, is about two disparate brothers, a stand-up military man with a family and an untrustworthy ex-con.

1 p.m., Holiday IV: "Animation Spotlight," a collection of animated short films from Finland, Poland, Great Britain, Canada, Norway and the United States.

2:30 p.m., Prospector: "Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story," a documentary-competition film about a boxing match in 1962, during which one of the boxers was pummeled into a coma and later died.

2:30 p.m., Racquet Club: "Pretty Persuasion," a dramatic-competition film, is a social satire with a teenage girl in an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills as its primary character; Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Jane Krakowski and Selma Blair star.

3 p.m., Egyptian: "Stranger Than Paradise," Jim Jarmusch's first film, a black-and-white Sundance hit in 1985, is a comic road trip starring John Lurie.

6 p.m., Eccles: "The Upside of Anger" is a romantic comedy with Kevin Costner as a suburbanite who tries to romance his neighbor, an abandoned mother (Joan Allen) of four headstrong daughters (Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell, Alicia Witt).

6:15 p.m., Holiday III: "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," a documentary-competition film about the '90s Enron corporate scandal, has already been picked up for distribution.

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