Digitalb TV listings 16th July
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01:00 Collateral (2004) Crime / Drama / Thriller
Starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo. Directed by Michael Mann.
For Max, the dreams of his own limo company are what keep him afloat from the mundane reminder of his real job: taxi driver, which he has been doing for over a decade. But one fateful night, Max has one cab fare that he would never expect named Vincent. He's a smooth, charismatic fellow who is sharply dressed and apparently wealthy, offering Max an excellent tip if he'll bring him to five stops throughout Los Angeles. But fate intervenes and Max soon finds out that Vincent isn't a businessman, but a contract hitman making his rounds. As the night progresses, Max finds himself under the microscope of a coldblooded killer. Meanwhile, the police and FBI are onto Max's cab while the two ultimately play a psychological cat and mouse game, that will lead to an inevitable climax neither would anticipate.
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03:00 Red Eye (2005) Action / Drama / Thriller
Starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox and Jayma Mays. Directed by Wes Craven.
After attending the funeral of her grandmother in Dallas, the Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa (Rachel McAdams) is waiting for a flight to Miami. Due to the bad weather and consequent flight delay, she meets in the airport bar Jack Rippner (Cillian Murphy), who is also in the waiting list. They sit together in the plane, and Jack reveals that he wants Lisa to change the room in Lux of an important American politician to facilitate a terrorist attempt against him. Otherwise, Lisa's father will be killed by a hit man. Lisa has to decide what to do with the menacing man at her side.
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05:00 The Stepford Wives (2004) Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and Glenn Close. Directed by Frank Oz.
Joanna Eberhart, a wildly succesful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut. Once there, she makes good friends with the ascerbic Bobbie Markowitz, a jewish writer who's also a recovering alcoholic. Together they find out, much to their growing stupor and-then horror, that all the housewives in town are strangely blissful, and somehow... doomed. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Why is everything perfect here? Will it be too late for Joanna and Bobbie when they finally find out?
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07:00 The MatchMaker (1997) Comedy / Romance
Starring Janeane Garofalo, David O'Hara, Milo O'Shea and Jay O. Sanders. Directed by Mark Joffe.
Marcy is an assistant to Senator John McGlory, who is having problems with a re-election campaign. Desperate for Irish votes, McGlory's chief of staff Nick sends Marcy to Ireland to trace McGlory's relatives or ancestors. Marcy arrives at the village of Ballinagra when it is preparing for an annual Matchmaking Festival. A well-dressed, handsome and single young lady, she becomes the center of attention for two professional matchmakers, Dermot and Millie, as well as for bartender Sean.
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09:00 A Time for Dancing (2000) Drama
Starring Larisa Oleynik, Shiri Appleby, Peter Coyote and Patricia Kalember. Directed by Peter Gilbert.
In some ways, Sam and Jules couldn't be more different. Sam, the only child of a hard working single mom, has somewhat of a dark outlook on life. It is hard to see the world through rose-colored glasses when you have to work an after school job at a food stand called Burgatory. On the other hand, Jules is full of hope and joy. All she ever wanted to do is dance. Her parents, her younger brother, and her best friend Sam, all know her life revolves around dancing.
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11:00 Be Cool (2005) Comedy / Crime / Music
Starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn and André Benjamin. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. From the recording studio to an Aerosmith concert to the MTV Music Awards, he manipulates events to watch them play out the Chili way, using his signature blend of wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics. It's a dangerous business, and everyone's looking for their next big hit.
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13:00 Domino (2005) Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Starring Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez and Riz Abbasi. Directed by Tony Scott.
Based on the true story of Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley), daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey. Tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high-society LA life, Domino leaves the glittarti behind and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley (Mickey Rourke) and his crew and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things really heat up when a masked gang pilfer the contents of an armored car, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the crazy situation.
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15:00 North Country (2005) Drama
Starring Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis and Frances McDormand. Directed by Niki Caro.
A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go underground at Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.
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17:00 Transporteur II, Le (2005) Action / Crime / Thriller
Starring Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta and Kate Nauta. Directed by Louis Leterrier.
Professional driver Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policymaker and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.
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19:00 The Net 2.0 (2006) (V) Action / Drama / Thriller
Starring Nikki Deloach, Demet Akbag, Hayati Akbas and Sebnem Dönmez. Directed by Charles Winkler.
The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil when, after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job, she finds her credit cards useless, her bank account empty, and her identity stolen.
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21:00 "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller (part 3)
Starring Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Bruce Davison. Directed by Craig R. Baxley.
With his crews and cargo ships disappearing at an alarming rate around the Bermuda Triangle, a billionaire hires a crew full of specialists to understand why. Hand picked by the man himself, the crew consists of a skeptical journalist, an ocean engineer, a scientist, and a psychic. With an attractive financial offer made to each of them, the crew will investigate the legendary, and very mysterious Bermuda Triangle to find answers. But as their findings deepen, the crew finds themselves surrounded by bizarre occurrences that only become all the more nightmarish. The offers made to them may have seem ideal at the time, but now they may have gotten in over their heads against something they may not understand.
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23:00 The Jacket (2005) Thriller / Drama / Fantasy
Starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Directed by John Maybury.
The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn't know how. Thus commences the classic race against time.
Regards Satdude.
