‘Mrs. Doubtfire’

This 1993 blockbuster is a safe and sane entertainment where all the characters are nice and all the situations unadventurous. Robin Williams (left) takes on a role born in high-concept heaven: a divorced dad and unemployed voice-over actor who disguises himself as a grandmotherly British housekeeper to spend more time with the children he loves. (Sally Field, pictured, is his ex-wife, a high-powered interior decorator.) Gradually but undeniably, Williams is going soft and mushy, and it is not a pleasing sight (HBO Tuesday at 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Friday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.).