Digitalb TV listings 26th July
Eutelsat W2 - 16.0E
Available on 11.092V SYM:32000 FEC 5/6
Premiere
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01:05 Thirteen (2003) Drama
Starring Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed and Jeremy Sisto. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke.
At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in school, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends.
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03:00 Bin-jip (2004) (Empty Houses) Drama / Romance
Starring Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon and Jeong-ho Choi. Directed by Ki-duk Kim.
A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape her unhappy, abusive marriage.
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05:00 I'm with Lucy (2002) Comedy / Romance
Starring Monica Potter, Craig Bierko, Linda Halaska and Julianne Nicholson. Directed by Jon Sherman.
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what lead up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her experiences with each one. As each date is told at the same time as the other four, the many ups and downs of new relationships are shown. So, while some dates start off terribly, but end well others are just the opposite. But which one of the five men is Lucy about to walk down the aisle with?
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07:00 Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) Comedy / Drama
Starring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young and Christopher Guest. Directed by Stephen Frears.
Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don't seem to get on at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson is friends with him.
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09:00 The Last Ride (2004) (TV) Action / Drama / Thriller
Starring Dennis Hopper, Will Patton, Fred Ward and Luis Albert Acevedo Jr. Directed by Guy Norman Bee.
30 years ago, Ronnie Purcell (Dennis Hopper) was arrested for armed robbery following a chase which resulted in the death of his wife. Now that he's released, all he wants is revenge on the cop who sent him to jail--Daryll Kurtz (Fred Ward). Kurtz also took custody of Ronnie's young son, Aaron (Will Patton), when Ronnie went to jail. Aaron is now a cop too, and he wants nothing to do with his ex-con dad. But Aaron has teenage son, Matthew (Chris Carmack), who is fascinated by his grandfather's criminal past, and volunteers to help him find Kurtz.
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11:00 The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) Comedy / Romance
Starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd and Romany Malco. Directed by Judd Apatow.
40-year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carrell) has done quite a few things in his life. He's got a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment with a proud collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice attitude. But there's just one little thing he hasn't quite gotten around to doing yet--something most people have done by his age. Done a lot. Andy's never, ever, ever had sex--not even by accident. So is that such a big deal? Well, for Andy's buds at the store, it sure is. Although they think he's a bit of an oddball, there's certainly a planet full of stranger (and homelier) guys who've at least had one go at having a go. They consider it their duty to help Andy out of his dire situation and go to great lengths to help him. But nothing proves effective enough to lure their friend out of lifelong chastity until he meets Trish (Catherine Keener), a 40-year-old mother of three. Andy's friends are psyched by the possibility that "it" may finally happen...until they hear that Andy and Trish have begun their relationship based on a mutual no-sex policy.
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13:05 Lackawanna Blues (2005) (TV) Drama / Music
Starring S. Epatha Merkerson, Marcus Carl Franklin, Mos Def and Carmen Ejogo. Directed by George C. Wolfe.
Based on the true story of Ruben Santiago Jr. and his relationship with his guardian Rachel Crosby, set in 1950's and 1960's Lackawanna, New York. After the separation of his parents, young Ruben "Junior" Santiago, a part-black, part-Hispanic child, is sent to live in a small-scale boarding house run by the kind-hearted Rachel "Nanny" Crosby and her younger husband Bill. Ruben then grows up witnessing the world of soul and blues music and grows to know the various characters that Nanny takes into her household to help out, from disturbed Ol'lem Taylor; one-armed handyman Mr. Lucious; hairdresser Bertha; war veteran Lonnie; ex-convict Mr. Paul; butch cleaner Ricky and many others.
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15:00 National Treasure (2004) Action / Adventure / Drama
Starring Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha and Sean Bean. Directed by Jon Turteltaub.
Since childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is decended from a long line of people whose job is to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers, who hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, he has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping the treasure safe is still going to be incredibly hard, especially since the FBI has also gotten wind of the scheme.
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17:05 Flightplan (2005) Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Kate Beahan and Erika Christensen. Directed by Robert Schwentke.
In Berlin, the aircraft propulsion engineer Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is grieving the loss of her beloved husband, who felt from the roof of their building. She quits her job and decides to travel with her traumatized six years old daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) to bury the body in Long Island. While in the flight to New York, Kyle falls asleep, and when she wakes up, her daughter is missing. She requests a search in the plane to the captain, but nobody has seen her daughter, whose name is not in the flight manifest, disbelieving Kyle. She tries to convince the air marshal Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) that she is not delusional.
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19:00 The Other Half (2005) Comedy
Starring Danny Dyer, Gillian Kearney, Vinnie Jones and George Calil. Directed by Marlowe Fawcett and Richard Nockles.
When English Mark surprises his American bride Holly with her dream honeymoon to Portugal she cant believe her luck. Mark goes to great trouble to organise everything for her. They arrive in Portugal to discover that the country is hosting a major international soccer tournament and that the English national team is playing! Whats more, the England team, and their raucous fans, seem to follow them everywhere. Soccer-loving Mark claims innocence - a complete coincidence - after all, what kind of man would lie to his new wife just to watch England play in a tournament? Gradually, Holly is forced to consider that perhaps her husband could be just such a man. Marks odd behaviour, their whirlwind romance and her fathers money (that paid for the trip) all begin to add to a terrible conclusion. The games intensify, the subterfuge deepens and cracks develop. Mark denies everything, but what has he done? How can he prove that he really loves her? The film captures the passion, drama and romance of an explosive match between the hilarious newlyweds playing the game of their lives. An international soccer cup competition, churches, beaches, castles, mountains and the winding streets of Lisbon, all play stadium to this whirlwind ride through beautiful Portugal.
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21:00 Last Holiday (2006) Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Starring Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton and Giancarlo Esposito. Directed by Wayne Wang.
In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when an MRI discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free?
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23:00 King Kong (2005) Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Starring Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann. Directed by Peter Jackson.
Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
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