Today's Sundance highlights

Published: Sunday, Jan. 23 2005 12:00 a.m. MST

Naomi Watts in a scene from the Sundance film "Ellie Parker."

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

PARK CITY

8:30 a.m., Holiday II: "Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire" is a Canadian documentary about the guilt-plagued career-military man who led an undersupported United Nations team in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.

10 a.m., Holiday IV: "New York Doll," a documentary-competition film by Brigham Young University graduate Greg Whiteley profiling former New York Dolls musician and LDS Church convert Arthur "Killer" Kane.

11:30 a.m., Library Center: "Dear Wendy" has a teenage pacifist in a blue-collar mining town finding a gun and forming a secret club; Jamie Bell and Bill Pullman star.

Noon, Egyptian: "On a Clear Day" has a depressed older man deciding to swim the English Channel; Peter Mullen, Brenda Blethyn and Billy Boyd ("The Lord of the Rings") star.

11:30 a.m., Racquet Club: "How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer," a dramatic-competition film, has three generations of single Mexican-American women finding romance in the heat of an Arizona summer; Elizabeth Pena, America Ferrera and Steven Bauer star.

2:30 p.m., Library Center: "Game 6" is a comedy with Michael Keaton as a New York playwright at war with a powerful critic (Robert Downey Jr.); Griffin Dunne, Bebe Neuwirth and Catherine O'Hara co-star.

2:30 p.m., Prospector: "Why We Fight," a documentary-competition film, suggests that since the 1950s, life in the United States has been dependent on war.

2:30 p.m., Racquet Club: "Police Beat," a dramatic-competition film, is a gentle look at disorientation through the eyes of a Muslim West African immigrant who becomes a policeman in Seattle and falls for a white woman who doesn't believe in monogamy.

3 p.m., Eccles: "Kung Fu Hustle," a Chinese martial-arts comedy by the maker of "Shaolin Soccer," is about a wannabe gangster in 1940s Canton.

4 p.m., Holiday IV: "Shape of the Moon," from the Netherlands, is a documentary follow-up to "The Eye of the Day," again looking at Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world.

5:30 p.m., Racquet Club: "Thumbsucker," a dramatic-competition film, a comedy about a high-schooler who tries to stop sucking his thumb; Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Kelli Garner, Benjamin Bratt and Vince Vaugh star.

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