Films on TV Cabo 18th / 25th February
''enjoy''
Satellite: Hispasat Position: 30.0 west Frequency: 11811H
February 18 to February 25
Please note change of name
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Escolha 1 (NEW)
13 Going On 30 (2004) Comedy / Drama / Romance / Fantasy
Starring Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Kathy Baker and Judy Greer Directed by Gary Winick
Jenna Rink has two wishes - to become one of the school cool girls, and to be thirty - rather than be coming up to thirteen and hanging around with uncool Matt. After her disastrous birthday party an accidental sprinkling of magic dust makes both wishes come true and she finds herself at thirty as a highly successful New York fashion editor. Luckily she locates Matt for help on how her new world works, but as she finds out how she has behaved since that birthday party she increasingly discovers someone she thoroughly dislikes.
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Escolha 2 (NEW)
The United States of Leland (2003) Drama / Crime
Starring Kevin Spacey, Lena Olin, Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling, Jena Malone and Don Cheadle Directed by Matthew Ryan Hoge.
Soft-spoken 15-year old Leland Fitzgerald (Gosling) commits a seemingly senseless murder that shocks his community, affecting both his victim's family and his own. Arrested and imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility, Leland comes in contact with an aspiring writer and prison teacher, Pearl Madison (Cheadle). As Pearl delves into the mystery of Leland's crime, he also sees the chance for a career-making book as the boy's estranged father is the world-renowned author, Albert Fitzgerald (Spacey).
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Escolha 3
Levity (2003) Drama
Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kirsten Dunst, Morgan Freeman and Holly Hunter. Directed by Ed Solomon.
The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thorton) has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to try to seek redemption. He ends up living and working at a community house run by a preacher, Miles Evans (Morgan Freeman.) The film is equipped with beautiful voice-overs about the meaning of life and different philosophies for getting redemed. Manual also becomes friends with Idel Easley (Holly Hunter), his victims sister, in an attempt to make up for what he did. While working at the home he has interactions with Sophia Mellinger (Kirsten Dunst), the druggie daughter of a famous singer, struggling with the lack of adult guidance in her life. This quirky film, is asthetically beautiful. Stellar performaces by Thorton, Holly hunter, Morgan Freeman, and Kirsten Dunst.
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Drunken Monkey (2002) Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime
Starring Jacky Wu .... Great Uncle (as Wu Jing Jason)
Wing-Kin Lau (as Lau Wing Kin) Shannon Yao Chia-Liang Liu
Mediocre kung-fu movie. Lau Kar-Leung plays Wen Biao, the owner of a respectable security company. Trouble begins when he is betrayed by his ambitious younger brother Wen Bao and the film’s villain Yu Haiyang, both of whom are more interested in trafficking opium than running a legitimate business. Left for dead in a river, Wen Biao miraculously survives their murder attempt and is tracked down a year later by a couple of zealous Monkey Fist enthusiasts, Chen Jiaye (Lau Wing Kin) and Ah De (Wu Jing), who are determined to put together a definitive Monkey Fist kung fu manual. Jiaye and Ah De are led to Wen Biao by his feisty female companion Xiao Min (Yao Yao, Shannon) and, after some persuading, are tutored by Master Wen in the art of the ‘Drunken Monkey Fist’ – a form of martial arts in which the fighter must consume alcohol in the belief that it improves your fighting and makes you more resistant to pain.
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Escolha 4
Ella Enchanted (2004) Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Adventure
Starring Anne Hathaway, Cary Elwes, Eric Idle, Steve Coogan and Joanna Lumley. Directed by Tommy O'Haver.
Based on Gail Carson Levine's award winning novel, this is the story of Ella, a young woman who was given a "gift" of obedience by a fairy named Lucinda. Anything anyone tells her to do, she must obey. When her mother passes away, Ella is cared for by her thoughtless and greedy father who remarries a loathsome woman with two treacherous daughters. This modern-day, fantasy Cinderella features fairies, ogres and elves...as well as a hero in the guise of Prince Charmont, whom Ella falls in love with. Unlike Cinderella though, Ella must depend on herself and her intelligence to get her through her troubles and find Lucinda in order for her "curse" to be broken!
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The Passion of the Christ (2004) Drama
Starring Maia Morgenstern, Mattia Sbragia, James Caviezel, Claudia Gerini, Monica Bellucci. Directed by Mel Gibson
The Passion of The Christ focusses on the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film begins in the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus has gone to pray after sitting the Last Supper. Jesus must resist the temptations of Satan. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death.
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