Films on TV Cabo 25th / 04th Feb / March
''enjoy''
Satellite: Hispasat Position: 30.0 west Frequency: 11811H
February 25 to March 4
Please note change of name
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Escolha 1 (NEW)
Ong-bak (2003) Action / Adventure
Starring Panom Yeerum, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkamo, Suchao Pongwilai. Directed by Prachya Pinkaew
When the head of Ong-Bak, the sacred Buddha of a poor village is stolen, the population is plunged into misery. The Buddha was the focal point of an anniversary vigil believed to bring rain to the drought-stricken area. Young Ting is selected by the villagers to travel to Bangkok and rescue the relic in time for their ceremony. Ting has an affinity with the statue as he was left on the temple steps as a baby and raised by monks, who taught him muay thai, but forbade him to use it in combat. But now he is forced to delve into a seedy underworld and try to avoid temptation...
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Escolha 2 (NEW)
I Am David (2003) Drama
Starring Ben Tibber, James Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Hristo Shopov
Silvia De Santis. Directed by Paul Feig
I Am David is adapted from Anne Holm's internationally acclaimed novel North to Freedom. It is the story of a 12-year-old boy, David, who escapes a Communist concentration camp with little more than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into the free world for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. It is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where David slowly loses his instinctual mistrust of humanity and begins to smile, share, trust and ultimately, love. I Am David addresses the cruelties, politics, and suffering of warfare while celebrating the resilience of youth and the unbreakable spirit of a child.
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Escolha 3
13 Going On 30 (2004) Comedy / Drama / Romance / Fantasy
Starring Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis,
Kathy Baker. 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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The United States of Leland (2003) Drama / Crime
Starring Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone,
Lena Olin. 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 4
Levity (2003) Drama
Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter,
Kirsten Dunst, Manuel Aranguiz. 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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Chui ma lau (2002) (Drunken Monkey ) Action / Adventure / Comedy
Starring Jacky Wu .... Great Uncle (as Wu Jing Jason), Wing-Kin Lau (as Lau Wing Kin), Shannon Yao. Directed by Chia-Liang Liu
Lau Kar is a real kungfu practitioner for many years with knowledge and experience in this particular style of kungfu, so you will see rare footage of fight scenes you've never seen before and more realistic than a lot of other good movies. With funny bits that actually make you laugh, and a variety of scenes all splashed together to make a very good movie, But most of all, everyones in it for the fighting scenes if you like kungfu
Regards Satdude.
