Digitalb TV listings 19th July
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03:25 Stoned (2005) Biography / Drama / Music
Starring Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey and Ben Whishaw. Directed by Stephen Woolley.
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones (Gregory), who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
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05:00 Elizabethtown (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance
Starring Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Cameron Crowe.
After causing the Oregon shoe company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew Baylor is fired for his mistake, and promptly also dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is oddly given a new purpose in life when he is brought back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown following the death of his father, Mitch, as it falls to him to make sure that his dying wishes are fulfilled. On the way home, Drew meets a flight attendant, Claire Colburn(Dunst), with whom he falls in love, in a romance that helps his life get back on track...
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07:00 Torque (2004) Action / Crime / Thriller
Starring John Ashker, Max Beesley, Dane Cook and Ice Cube. Directed by Joseph Kahn.
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey (Ice Cube), leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood.
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09:00 Hostage (2005) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Starring Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett and Michelle Horn. Directed by Florent Emilio Siri.
In a small town in California, the chief of police Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) is facing relationship problems with his teenager daughter. One year later, he was the prime police negotiator in Los Angeles, but after an unsuccessful negotiation, he gave-up his position and decided to move with his family to a calmer life. When three punks invade the house of Walter Smith (Kevin Pollak), a wealthy accountant, and jeopardize his family, holding them hostage, Jeff's family is abducted by powerful criminals to force him to retrieve a DVD with bank accountings' information kept in Walter's office.
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11:00 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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13:00 The Great Raid (2005) Action / Drama / War
Starring Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone and Max Martini. Directed by John Dahl.
Set in the Philippines in 1945, THE GREAT RAID tells the true story of the 6th Ranger Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) who undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, the 6th Ranger Battalion aims to liberate over 500 American prisoners-of-war from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.
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15:05 Woman on Top (2000) Comedy / Romance
Starring Penélope Cruz, Murilo Benício, Harold Perrineau and Mark Feuerstein. Directed by Fina Torres.
Isabella is a great cook, making her husband's restaurant in Bahia, Brazil, a success. To control her motion sickness, she must do the driving and be on top during sex, which drives her macho husband, Toninho, to infidelities. Heart-broken, she leaves for San Francisco, moving in with her childhood friend, Monica, a cross-dresser. To mend her heart, she makes an offering to Yemanja, the goddess of the sea. The goddess responds: Isabella no longer loves and the fish in Bahia no longer bite. Stricken, Toninho heads north to get her back; he finds her hosting a popular TV show, Passion Food, courted by its producer. Can he learn humility? Can she find happiness without him?
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17:00 Melinda and Melinda (2004) Comedy / Drama
Starring Wallace Shawn, Neil Pepe, Stephanie Roth Haberle and Larry Pine. Directed by Woody Allen.
Over a meal in a French restaurant, Sy poses a conundrum to his fellow diners: Is the essence of life comic or tragic? For the sake of argument, he tells a story, which the others then embellish to illustrate their takes on life. The story starts as follows: A young Manhattan couple, Park Avenue princess Laurel and tippling actor Lee, throw a dinner party to impress Lee's would-be producer when their long-lost friend Melinda appears at their front door, bedraggled and woebegone. In the tragic version of what happens next, the beautiful intruder is a disturbed woman who got bored with her Midwestern doctor-husband and dumped him for a photographer. Her husband took the children away and she spiraled into a suicidal depression that landed her straight-jacketed in a mental ward. In the comic version, Melinda is childless and a downstairs neighbor to the dinner hosts, who are ambitious Indy filmmaker Susan and under-employed actor Hobie. Back and forth the stories go, contrasting the destinies of the two Melindas.
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19:00 Hide and Seek (2005) Thriller / Drama / Horror
Starring Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen and Elisabeth Shue. Directed by John Polson.
After his wife commits suicide, David Callway and his daughter, Emily, move upstate to find peace and "restart" their lives. But when mysterious and dangerous things start happening, and Emily makes a new friend named Charlie, David and Emily's doctor, Katherine, begin to worry. Now, David and Emily must find a way out of this mess...if they are to survive.
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21:00 The Producers (2005) Comedy / Musical
Starring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman and Will Ferrell. Directed by Susan Stroman.
New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste...
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23:10 The New World (2005) Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Romance
Starring Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale and August Schellenberg. Directed by Terrence Malick.
"The New World" is a drama about explorer John Smith (played by Colin Farrell) and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century. It is the story of two strong-willed characters: a passionate and noble young native woman and an ambitious soldier of fortune-torn between the undeniable requirements of their civic duty and the inescapable demands of the human heart.
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