Digitalb TV listings 18th July
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01:00 Alfie (2004) Comedy / Drama
Starring Jude Law, Renée Taylor, Jane Krakowski and Jeff Harding. Directed by Charles Shyer.
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie (Jude Law) is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie (Marisa Tomei) is quite upset with the situation and his best friends are his colleague Marlon (Omar Epps) and his girl-friend Lonette (Nia Long). Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style.
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03:00 Kinsey (2004) Biography / Drama
Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell and Peter Sarsgaard. Directed by Bill Condon.
Kinsey is a biologist and a sex researcher. He releases Kinsey report about sexual behavior of American people in 1948 and 1953. He interviews 18,000 people to take sex histories. It is sensational and controversial because it is taboo to talk about sex. And, people have little knowledge of it. No knowledge makes them worry and feel guilty. Actually, he and his wife lose their virginity after their marriage, but it is unsuccessful. From the bad experience, and as he consults with his students to give them advice about sexual problems, he gets interested in revealing people's sexual behavior. He devotes his life to sex research. His academic curiosity is amazing. He supports "diversity" and "individualism". He claims there is common or rare in sexual behavior, but we shouldn't categorize it into the two groups, normal and abnormal. He influences a lot of people. Especially, he encourages and saves homosexual people. In short, Kinsey is an influential figure who is fascinated with sex research and contributes to the society.
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05:05 My Summer of Love (2004) Drama / Romance
Starring Nathalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine and Dean Andrews. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski.
A tale of obsession and deception, and the struggle for love and faith in a world where both seem impossible. The film charts the emotional and physical hothouse effects that bloom one summer for two young women: Mona, behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life; Tamsin is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. Complete opposites, each is wary of the other's differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination, amusement and attraction. Adding volatility is Mona's older brother Phil, who has renounced his criminal past for religious fervor - which he tries to impose upon his sister. Mona, however, is experiencing her own rapture. "We must never be parted," Tamsin intones to Mona but can Mona completely trust her?
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07:00 Guess Who (2005) Comedy / Romance
Starring Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana and Judith Scott. Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan.
Percy Jones takes great pride in the knowledge that he is always right, especially when it comes to the welfare of his family. When his daughter Theresa brings her new boyfriend, Simon Green, home to meet Percy and his wife Marilyn, he is unaware that Simon has already proposed to Theresa and plans to announce the engagement at Percy and Marilyn's 25th anniversary party. As far as Percy's concerned,...
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09:00 Elektra (2005) Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller
Starring Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Kirsten Prout and Will Yun Lee. Directed by Rob Bowman.
Jennifer Garner returns as Elektra, a lethal synthesis of grace and power with the mystical power known as Kimagure: a limited ability to see the future. She has purposefully severed all ties with the world and lives only for her next assignment. Elektra's latest job forces her to make a decision that can take her life in a whole new direction or destroy her.
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11:00 Millions (2004) Comedy / Crime / Drama / Family
Starring Alexander Nathan Etel, Lewis McGibbon and Leslie Phillips. Directed by Danny Boyle.
The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian's playhouse, a 5-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. A very rare film in which ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront on this masterly-written, directed and acted, very fun, film. Don't miss this opportunity to your train to heaven!
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13:00 Flight of the Phoenix (2004) Action / Adventure / Drama
Starring Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Giovanni Ribisi and Miranda Otto. Directed by John Moore.
A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.
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15:00 Into the Blue (2005) Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller
Starring Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan and Ashley Scott. Directed by John Stockwell.
Sam (Jessica Alba) and Jared (Paul Walker) are a young couple in the Bahamas, divers and aspiring treasure hunters. While the arrogant salvager Bates (Josh Brolin) has loads of expensive equipment, Jared gets by with a small, battered boat. Jared and Sam find a historic wreck, but nearby is a wrecked airplane with a large quantity of cocaine. Jared and Sam want the treasure; their diving partners also want the drugs. Dangerous criminals realize the plane and cocaine are submerged somewhere in the area. When the bad guys learn that the couple has located the drugs, Jared and Sam find themselves in mortal peril.
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17:00 The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
Starring Jeffrey Wright, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie and Dorian Missick. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.
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19:05 Vanity Fair (2004) Drama / Romance
Starring Gabriel Byrne, Angelica Mandy, Roger Lloyd-Pack and Ruth Sheen. Directed by Mira Nair.
The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.
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21:20 Constantine (2005) Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf and Djimon Hounsou. Directed by Francis Lawrence.
Born with the powers to defeat demons and communicate with angels John Constantine has become tormented with the everlasting battle against Hell when evil is so prevalent on Earth. Still fighting but motivated only to release his soul from the grips of Hell by being accepted by God. His knowledge of the horrors of Hell affect his conscience and forces to continue to save peoples souls when all he wants is peace. But God demands self sacrifice as the means of his redemption. To which John responds that in doing so he will be unable to save people from Hell. A comic book that against tackles theological issues that have been gathering dust.
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23:15 "The Triangle" (2005) (mini) Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
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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