Empire Falls (Part 1) (HBO)

Part 1 of 2. Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt and Paul Newman lead an all-star cast in this two-part miniseries event based on Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A declining New England town is the setting for this humorous, poignant drama about residents whose lives are inexorably connected by dying industry, class differences and ghosts of the past.