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HBO Signature, 9 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2
It is the middle of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest period, during the making of Psycho, that is the focus of Sacha Gervasi’s delightful movie about Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), a screenwriter with whom Hitchcock collaborated on every film he made, whether she was credited or not. Most assuredly, this movie is not a realistic depiction of actual events, but Hopkins does a hilarious and often poignant impersonation of the director and Mirren, as his sarcastic and long-suffering wife, is subtle, arch and sympathetic.
