Films on Canal+ Film 1 & 2 / 13th November

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Films on Canal+ Film 1 & 2 / 13th November

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Saturday 13th November

Canal Digital on Thor 2/3 at 1.0W

11278V SYM:24500 FEC 7/8

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Canal+ Film1

Johnny English

14:10 Johnny English 11 y/o / family film / 2003 / mixed language / Rowan Atkinson, Tasha de Vasconcelos and Ben Miller. Directed by Peter Howitt.

Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.

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How High

15:35 How High 15 y/o / comedy / 2001 / Method Man, Redman and Obba Babatundé. Directed by Jesse Dylan.

Two guys by the name of Silas and Jamal decided to one day smoke something magical, which eventually helps them to ace their college entrance exam. This eventually lands them in Harvard, where they're surrounded by the world of Ivy Leaguers. Although their new lifestyle is much different from back home, they kept on having fun until their supernatural smoke runs out. Now, they are on their own and they have to rely on each other to survive.

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Get Well Soon

17:10 Get Well Soon 15 y/o / Comedy / Vincent Gallo, Courteney Cox and Jeffrey Tambor. Directed by Justin McCarthy.

Wildly popular TV talk show host Bobby Bishop (Vincent Gallo) has a nervous breakdown during an on-camera interview with a pop starlet, with whom he makes a rather crude observation and offer. This lapse of taste sets off a series of scandals in his off-camera life, which his beleaguered agent (Jeffrey Tambor) is helpless to stop. Desperate for love, Bobby rushes to New York City to find his former girlfriend, Lily (Courtney Cox), who doesn't even like his show, and neither does her cross-dressing boyfriend (Tate Donovan) . Can true love straighten out the messes that are these folks' lives?

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X2 (2003)

18:45 X2 11 y/o / Thriller / 2003 / Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen. Directed by Bryan Singer.

Already living in a society that mistrusts them, the mutants are faced with even more discrimination after an unforeseen enemy - who may be a mutant with extraordinary powers - launches a devastating attack. The news of the assault causes a public outcry against the mutants, including renewed support for the Mutant Registration Act, and William Stryker, a military leader rumored to have experimented on mutants (possibly including Wolverine), is among the most vocal supporters of the legislation. Stryker puts into motion a plan to eradicate the mutants and begins an offensive on the X-Men mansion and school. Magneto, having escaped from his plastic prison, forms an unlikely alliance with Professor Xavier to stop Stryker. Meanwhile, Wolverine heads north to investigate his past.

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Final Destination 2

21:00 Final Destination 2 15 y/o / Horror / Thriller / Fantasy / 2003 / A.J. Cook, Ali Larter and Michael Landes.

Kimberly Corman, 19, was just taking a trip with her friends.. But when she escapes a horrific car accident, she finds herself in Death's path of destruction. Now, Kimberly, along with the other survivors, must find a way to save themselves...

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Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, The

23:00 The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course 11 y/o / Comedy / 2002 / Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin and Magda Szubanski. Directed by John Stainton.

Aussie adventurer Steve Irwin aka The Crocodile Hunter has avoided the death-roll and nabbed another feisty croc, hoping to save it from poachers. What Steve doesn't know is that the crocodile has innocently swallowed a top secret US satellite beacon, and the poachers are actually American special agents sent to retrieve it. Crikey! In the Outback and through the bush with his wife Terri's ever-present commentary ringing out over the countryside ("That was a close one, Steve!"), the Crocodile Hunter is out to save the gorgeous croc and relocate him. It won't be easy, but if he can handle bird-eating spiders and venomous snakes without getting bitten, gun-wielding agents shouldn't be too much of a problem.

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Canal+ Film2

Dancer Upstairs, The

12:20 The Dancer Upstairs 15 y/o / Thriller / 2002 / Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto and Laura Morante. Directed by John Malkovich.

The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda--his daughter's soulfully beautiful ballet teacher--a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm's eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer's truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary's cause and the detective's peace.

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Possession

16:05 Possession 11 y/o / Drama / 2002/1 / Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart and Jeremy Northam. Directed by Neil LaBute.

Roland Michell is an Americian trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academics. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters in the textbook that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous long dead Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing around, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Tandether they piece tandether the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. The they also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe.

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Owning Mahowny

17:45 Owning Mahowny 15 y/o / Thriller / 2003 / Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver and John Hurt. Directed by Richard Kwietniowski.

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

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Happy Campers

20:00 Happy Campers 15 y/o / Comedy / 2001 / Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain and Keram Malicki-Sánchez. Directed by Daniel Waters.

When a summer camp director gets injured, the diverse group of college freshmen counselors take charge and spice up the everyday routine of the camp.

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Cat's Meow, The

23:35 The Cat's Meow 11 y/o / Thriller / 2001 / Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann and Eddie Izzard. Directed by Peter Banddanovich.

In November of 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mandul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were, Charlie Chaplin, Hearst's mistress, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator, producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella Parsons.

Regards Satdude.