But in an interview the other day in the garden of a Beverly Hills hotel, Mr. Kloves said: "Actually, 'Baker Boys' was considered a difficult, quirky movie.

By contrast, tonight, after Poirot, Channel 13 offers, untouched by the sponsor's saw, "My Beautiful Laundrette," a quirky 1985 movie that warrants watching.

In line with its leaders' reputation for developing quirky, more sophisticated, and less commercial movies, the company also bought the rights to Final Payments (1978), an acclaimed first novel by Mary Gordon.

Over the next six years the script underwent many rewrites and suffered about as many rejections from potential backers who dismissed "Getting It Right" as "a quirky little movie."

It's a quirky, witty, coming-of-age movie that takes a conventional premise and twirls it into something delightfully unconventional, designed to charm and magnetize the urban youth.

The British director, who is known for eliciting career-making performances from little-known actors in quirky, low-budget movies, shuns the Hollywood-approved method of mollycoddling the talent.

They requested multiple replays of "Rushmore," last year's quirky coming-of-age movie about an eccentric, iconoclastic teen-age boy who gets kicked out of private school.

I like modern art, stand-up comics, quirky movies.

Bob and I would keep getting calls from people saying, 'We've got a great project for you,' and usually it would be some dark, quirky macho movie.

Since the 70's he has just about had a lock on parts that call for rangy, inscrutable types in quirky movies by directors like Mr. Rudolph.