TV Channel Guide

HBO Asia Synopses - Month of July 2009

A MIGHTY HEART
On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s husband, Daniel, disappeared while researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid in Karachi. In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Dan Futterman

A PERFECT DAY
For writer Robert Harlan, life is a dream when his first novel tops the best-seller lists and he is suddenly thrust into the limelight. But as success consumes him, Robert's family life crumbles. It takes the sobering prophecy of a mysterious stranger for Robert to realize what is most important. Now he must find his way back to the wife and daughter he left behind in this heartwarming holiday drama based on the best-selling novel by Richard Paul Evans.
Starring: Rob Lowe, Christopher Lloyd, Paget Brewster

ALIVE
If you want to know how far people would go and what they would do to stay alive, don't miss this chilling true story. A plane carrying a rugby team crashes into the Andes Mountains on its way to Chile from Uruguay. Surrounded by dead bodies and a hostile freezing environment, survivors of the crash are driven to the most desperate measures possible - cannibalism. Stark and controversial.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton

ANACONDA
A documentary film crew, led by Terri Flores and Dr Steve Cale, stray into dangerous territory when Paul Sarone, a scientist obsessed with exploring the habitat of the world's largest snake, comes aboard. While their aims are purely anthropological, the snake has other ideas. Now they must use every primal resource at their disposal just to stay alive.
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube

ANY GIVEN SUNDAY
Two-time football champion, the Miami Sharks, once ruled the playing field and shoved their opponents' bodies into the grindstone. But that is all history. Losing their bite of late, the Sharks have been swimming through lackluster performances with an aging coach at the helm and a star-quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney, who is past his prime and out of commission. Not only that, hot dogging, problem-with-authority Willie Beamen is going to fill Rooney’s shoes. With an all-star line-up, this is Oliver Stone ditching camouflage uniforms for football jerseys.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Al Pacino

AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson give brilliant performances in this Golden Globe-winning comedy about discovering happiness beneath life's hard shell. Meet Melvin Udall: an obsessive-compulsive romance writer with a sharp tongue. A waitress at a local café, Carol Connelly always gets the brunt of his insults. Melvin's gay artist neighbor, Simon Bishop also finds himself at the receiving end of Melvin's attacks. However, in an unlikely twist of fate, the trio find themselves stuck together and discovers that sometimes, clouds do have a silver lining.
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt

AS YOU LIKE IT
All the world's a stage – and Kenneth Branagh captures it all in this exotic adaptation of William Shakespeare's delightful stage comedy that celebrates the enduring power of love in its many disguises. Witty, playful and utterly magical, this HBO Original Movie chronicles a compelling romantic adventure in which the celebrated courtship between Rosalind and Orlando is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - all set in 19th-century Japan!
Starring: Alfred Molina, Kevin Kline, Bryce Howard

BICENTENNIAL MAN
An android, brought to serve the Martin family learns about human nature and begins to develop emotions.
Starring: Robin Williams, Oliver Platt, Sam Neill

BLADES OF GLORY
When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they have found a loophole that will allow them to compete: they can skate together as an all-male figure skating pair – if they can put aside their differences.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder

BOILER ROOM
Helmed by first time writer-director, Ben Younger, "Boiler Room" chronicles the rise and fall of one 19-year-old, Seth Davis, an enterprising college drop-out who takes a job at JT Marlin — a small brokerage firm full of young and aggressive brokers whose partners — Chris Varick and Jim Young demand ruthless strategy. In return, they promise monumental remuneration to new recruits. Seth soon masters the art of the cold call and excels at work. But the job quickly clouds his judgment, drawing him into a world of corruption and greed, and ultimately jeopardizes his life.
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck

BRADDOCK: MISSING IN ACTION III
When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them from the communists. Armed with the latest hi-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and outmaneuvers a sadistic Vietnamese officer.
Starring: Chuck Norris

BRING IT ON: IN IT TO WIN
California high school senior Carson arrives at the "Cheer Camp Nationals" determined to lead her squad, the West High Sharks, to victory. But New Yorker Brooke and her team, the East High Jets, also want to win the competition. As tension mounts, Carson falls for fellow cheerleader Penn, not realizing he's a Jet. When Brooke discovers the romance, she challenges Carson to a cheer-off. The “cheer fight” erupts into a no-holds-barred brawl and cheerleaders on both sides are suspended from the competition. Both squads realize they will have to take drastic measures to stay in the game.
Starring: Michael Copon, Ashley Benson

CLASS ACT
In this second Kid 'N Play film, the resident high school genius switches identities with the class delinquent, setting the stage for all kinds of comic complications. To make matters even stickier, both guys meet the girl of their dreams - while masquerading as each other, making it even harder to end their charade.
Starring: Karyn Parsons, Kids 'n Play, Doug Doug

COOL WORLD
Josh Debbs is an underground cartoonist who gets sucked in – literally – into the fantasy world he has created. If that isn't enough to throw his day out of whack, he has to contend with Holli Would, a voluptuous doodle seeking to be human. And then there's Detective Frank Harris, the only other human in there, who has an axe to grind with the world in general. Directed by "underground" animator Ralph Bakshi, who gave us the animated features Lord Of The Rings, Cool World is an animated journey into a universe that is definitely not Disney, but just as captivating.


CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM 51: MEET THE BLACKS
At a golf game, Larry chats with Jeff and Richard about Marty Funkhouser's party, which he missed the night before. He decides to visit Marty that night on the pretense that he thought the party was tonight. On his way there, Cheryl talks about adopting a family from the Hurricane Edna tragedy, only to be dragged into Larry's charade. At the Funkhousers, Larry and Cheryl are forced to stay on, only to see Jeff and Susie show up with the same excuse.


CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM 52: THE ANONYMOUS DONOR
Jeff is helping Larry, Cheryl and the Blacks unpack in their new house when Cheryl has to answer a call from Ted. Meanwhile, Cheryl discovers a stain on Leon's blanket and Larry confronts him about it. At the dry cleaners, Larry discovers that his #25 jersey is missing and can't do anything about it. At the NRDC opening, he learns that Jeff was the guy behind the stain.


CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM 53: THE IDA FUNKHOUSER ROADSIDE MEMORIAL
Larry and Jeff discuss the sudden death of Marty Funkhouser's mother, Ida, but get into an argument with Susie over a $50 debt Marty owes Larry. While queuing at the ice cream store, Larry argues with a woman, bumps into Marty and reluctantly accepts Marty's soggy $50 note. At home, he discovers that the woman he was arguing with is the dean of a school which Cheryl is trying to get Daryl and Keisha into. A reluctant Larry has to make things right to please Cheryl.


CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM 54: THE LEFTY CALL
Larry gets irritated by Cha Cha, who is stationed outside the Men's room, and complains to Jeff. Things backfire when Cha Cha complains that Larry goes to the bathroom multiple times a day. Back home, Larry offers the Blacks soft toilet paper to use in their bathroom. Cha Cha eventually gets fired and Larry has to help her get her job back.


DEAD AGAIN
Mike Church is a private detective who specializes in finding heirs and missing persons. But his next assignment will prove to be his greatest challenge. Grace has amnesia and Mike has to help discover her true identity. Unfortunately, she thinks she is Margaret Strauss, a woman who was murdered over 40 years ago. Is Margaret a phantom of Grace's imagination, or is this a serious case of split personality? As Margaret's life threatens to take over Grace's, Mike has to race against time to help Grace find herself, before she's lost forever.
Starring: Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Kenneth Branagh

DOOMSDAY
In this action-packed thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall, authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades, until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. Now they must enter the country to find a cure.
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Rhona Mitra, Adrian Lester

DREAMGIRLS
Set in the 1960s, three aspiring singers are on their way to finding out what it's like to have their wildest dreams come true. Discovered at a local talent show by ambitious manager Curtis Taylor Jr., the trio is soon offered the opportunity of singing backup for popular singer James "Thunder" Early. Molded into an unstoppable hit machine and propelled into the spotlight as "the Dreams," the small-town girls with big-city dreams soon realize that fame has a much greater cost than any of them would have anticipated.
Starring: Beyonce Knowles, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy

EASTERN PROMISES
This chilling thriller from acclaimed director David Cronenberg stars Viggo Mortensen Naomi Watts in a gritty tale of Russian-run organized crime in London. Watts plays an innocent midwife who unwittingly stumbles onto a complex and dangerous web of underground sex trafficking after she searches for the identity of a young mother who dies during child birth. Mortensen is the shadowy Nicolai, a ruthless figure closely associated with a prominent crime family who may not be all that he seems. Cronenberg is masterful as he creates a dark and haunting world where survival rules and human lives are merely currency.
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts

ENTOURAGE 66: RETURN TO QUEENS BOULEVARD
The guys gather in Vince's mom's kitchen in Queens to drown their sorrows, and hears Vince's mom demanding why her son can't play the lead in Gus Van Sant's latest film. Despite the director's reluctance towards Vince, Eric goes to his office to try to convince him otherwise. Meanwhile, Drama continues his mission to find out who's been giving Turtle all these late night calls. This episode guest-stars Martin Scorsese, Gus Van Sant, Michael Phelps, Bow Wow and Mercedes Ruehl.


EVAN ALMIGHTY
God appears to the newly-appointed Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark for a flood that is coming. Initially a disbeliever, Evan begins to have second thoughts when tools to build an ark arrive at his doorstep, animals of all types hound him in pairs and he starts to sport a beard which just won't go away.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell, Lauren Graham

EVENING
Based on the best-selling novel by Susan Minot, Evening tells the tale of Ann Grant, an old woman who recounts on her death bed her romantic and fascinating past to her two daughters. An elegant journey through 50 years of defining moments, Evening weaves a beautiful tapestry of affecting performances and emotional revelations, drawing on the complex relationships between mothers and daughters.
Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave

FLASHDANCE
"Flashdance" has given us one of the most iconic songs of the eighties, which won awards for the Best Original Song in the 1984 Academy Awards® and Golden Globes®. Alex Owens is a welder by day and an exotic dancer by night. Struggling to realize her dream of going to ballet school, she is supported in her cause by Nick Hurley, a streetwise construction company owner who ends up falling in love with her. Through his friendship, and a whole lot of determination, Alex is able to pursue her elusive goal.
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri

FREE WILLY
Wayward pre-teen, Jesse, is sent to live with his foster parents, Glen and Annie, who are tasked with the care of a fading adventure park. Jesse then meets and befriends the park's notoriously difficult Orca, Willy, and despite the size difference, the two misfits actually find a connection. However, the owners of the park have other plans for Willy. So it is up to Jesse and his newfound family to pull off the near-impossible: smuggle a killer whale out of the park, and take it to freedom.
Starring: Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen

GATTACA
This is a sci-fi suspense about "In-Valid" Vincent Freeman, whose genetic defects mar his dream of ever journeying into space. He hatches a daring plan to assume the identity of Jerome Morrow, a "Valid" who is crippled and willing to sell his superior genetic materials. Caught in the process is beautiful "Valid" Irene, who is also denied space travel because of her heart defect. Together, Vincent and Irene must find a way to break out of this strict world they live in and change their destinies.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law

HBO CENTRAL
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HAMLET
Showcasing a distinguished all-star cast - Oscar-winner Judi Dench, French thespian Gerard Depardieu and Richard Attenborough among many others - and performed in a way accessible to a broad audience, Branagh’s Hamlet is set in impressionistic 19th century Europe. It’s a world of glamour, power and corruption. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home after his studies, he finds his father murdered and his uncle married to his mother. A ghost (looking very much like his dead father) manifests himself and tells Hamlet to avenge his father’s death. Savor this play for its political complexity and Hamlet’s mad genius.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Helena Bonham-Carter

HAPPY GILMORE
What do you do when you want to play ice hockey, but can't skate? Simple – play something else, of course. Happy Gilmore's ineptitude leads him to try professional golf. And his attitude is – you guessed it – unprofessional. We are in for a mirthful time when Happy turns his tender mercies to the greens. If you're looking for laughs, this is definitely a hole in one.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Frances Bay

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
A summer has passed since Harry's encounter with the Dark Lord, and Harry returns to learn that the wizarding community remains in denial about Voldemort's return and a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher has been assigned. Now, with the entire wizard community in peril, the future of magic may depend on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint

HOPSCOTCH
A madcap mix of romantic fun and cloak-and-dagger games brings Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson together for love and laughs on an international scale. He plays a disgruntled CIA agent whose literary expose has spies from several nations scurrying to stop the presses. She is a widow who becomes his accomplice in undercover escapades that leave the spy world in shambles.
Starring: Walter Matthau, Ned Beatty, Glenda Jackson

HUSH LITTLE BABY
Two years after losing her daughter in a drowning accident, Jamie gives birth to a new girl, only to have her suspicions aroused after several accidents, though unproven, that her newborn baby could have been possessed by her lost daughter.
Starring: Victoria Pratt, Johana Black

INTO THE WILD
Top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions and gives his entire $24,000 savings to charity, so that he could hitchhike to Alaska and live in the wilderness. On the way, he meets different people who shape his values and life.
Starring: Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Emile Hirsch

JESSE STONE: SEA CHANGE
Jesse Stone, a police chief with a tortured past, returns in this latest chapter of the series based on the novels by Robert B. Parker. Sea Change centers on the re-opening of an investigation into a 12-year-old bank heist. When Stone discovers fresh clues that offer answers to an alleged rape aboard a yacht, this new mystery threatens to put those Stone cares about in mortal peril. Can he solve this mystery before it is too late while keeping his lust for beautiful women and booze under control?
Starring: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker

JUDICIAL INDISCRETION
Upon her nomination to the United States Supreme Court, respected judge Monica Barrett meets Jack Sullivan, an Irishman who claims to be a writer. What she discovers about Jack, however, is far worse and Monica is faced with the difficult decision of exposing Jack as a psychopath or a tool of a political plot.
Starring: Anne Archer, Michael Shanks

JUMANJI
Alan Parrish is the scion of a wealthy family, whose life was disrupted by the many years spent trapped in the bizarre jungles of a board game he had played as a child with his friend, Sarah. Sarah, traumatized years ago when her friend vanished before her eyes, has spent her whole life trying to convince herself that that terrifying day never happened. Then two children, Judy and her brother Peter, discover the dusty Jumanji board. Each roll of the dice brings them deeper into a jungle nightmare until Jumanji manifests itself in the world of wild animals.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Robin Williams, Jonathan Hyde

KIDS IN THE HALL: BRAIN CANDY
Kids In The Hall is a Canadian comedy troupe that had its origins in Second City-style improv – all the female roles are played by men in drag. This cult favorite however, is a story about a pharmaceutical company which discovers a cure for depression. When the company finds itself in financial trouble, they rush the new drug into production without doing enough testing. Things go awry when users start slipping into comas. It becomes a race between the scientists who want to tell the truth and the company's marketing department who wants to protect their margins.
Starring: Bruce McCulloch, David Foley, Kevin McDonald

KNOCKED UP
Ben Stone, a slacker with nothing much going on in his life meets entertainment TV host Alison Scott at a club – and ends up spending the night with her. Eight weeks later, Alison discovers she's pregnant and informs Ben that she is keeping the baby. Ben steps forward to support her and in the process, discovers his true feelings towards her.
Starring: Paul Rudd, Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen

LASSIE
One of Hollywood's most enduring stars returns. While on their move to the countryside, a city family adopts a beautiful collie, and she teaches the son to appreciate country life, helps foil a greedy neighbor and brings the family closer.
Starring: Helen Slater, Jon Tenney

LEAN ON ME
Morgan Freeman plays a tough, obnoxious, powerful principal who whips a broken down school in Patterson, New Jersey into shape. Based on a true story, Joe wields a baseball bat and bullhorn to keep discipline in his hallways, and to motivate underachieving students to keep their act together.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd

LEATHERHEADS
Academy Award-winners George Clooney and Renee Zellweger match wits in this rapid fire romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's pro-football league in 1925. Leatherheads casts Clooney as a grizzled football coach who recruits a golden boy war hero and star athlete to increase the team's profile. Zellweger is a cub reporter who suspects the tales of heroism might be phony. Soon, both men are fighting for her affections, and the combination of her investigation, the team's pursuit of the championship, and the gameplay of a romantic triangle make for one madcap comedy.
Starring: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger

LIFE AS A HOUSE
A dying Kevin Kline attempts to reconnect with estranged son Hayden Christensen and ex-wife Kristin Scott-Thomas.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen

LOCKDOWN
Avery desperately wants to free himself and his family from the squalor of life in the projects. His future seems bright when a talent scout takes an interest in him. Unfortunately, he and his pals, Cashmere and Dre, are pulled over by cops one night and framed for a robbery/murder. Hauled into prison, Avery quickly learns the ins and outs of prison life; Cashmere joins the African-American gang operating within the prison walls, while Dre resorts to drugs after being gang-raped by Nazi prison thugs. Their only hope for justice lies with Charles and Krista – Avery's wife.
Starring: Gabriel Casseus, De'aundre Bonds, Richard T. Jones

MARTIAN CHILD
A science fiction writer, David Gordon, lost his wife two years ago. He plans to adopt Dennis, a six-year old orphan boy, except the boy believes he is from Mars. While his sister Liz and agent Jeff try their best to get his feet firmly planted on the ground, the more time David spends with Dennis, the more he believes that his adopted son is really from Mars.
Starring: Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Amanda Peet

MIKE'S MURDER
When an ordinary woman's lover turns up dead, curiosity propels her into a contemporary nightmare from which there's no awakening. Betty is an unassuming bank teller whose boyfriend, a small-time drug pusher, is murdered. She decides to do some amateur sleuthing which drags her into a murky underworld of unsavory characters and the viewer into a chilling suspense film.
Starring: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun

MONSTER ARK
A team of archaeologists, comprising of a man and his ex-wife, stumbled upon a second ark that God had Noah built. This ark contains an evil creature of immense power that the Great Flood itself could not destroy. When the creature was unleashed, they must team up despite their differences to stop the creature from unleashing the Apocalypse.
Starring: Renee O'Connor, Dekay Tim

MR. WOODCOCK
John Farley, author of a best-selling book about letting go of the past, violates his own advice when he returns home to accept his community's highest honor. There, he learns, to his horror, that his widowed mother is engaged to his old high school gym teacher, Mr. Woodcock, whose sadistic acts plagued John's youth. Now, abetted by his nerdy old pal Nedderman, John will stop at nothing to derail the relationship.
Starring: Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon, Billy Bob Thornton

MY DOG SKIP
Based on William Morris' boyhood memoir, Willie is an 8-year old who looks destined to grow up a lonely kid. His only friend next door is going off to boot camp, and his classmates beat him up for reading books instead of playing ball. That's until he receives the best gift on his ninth birthday – a Jack Russell puppy, Skip. Skip leaves his friendly mark in the community and soon enough, helps his owner fit into it like comfortable shoes.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Frankie Muniz

MY FELLOW AMERICANS
Once you've been the most powerful men in the world, what do you do next? Veterans Russell Kramer and Matt Douglas whoop it up as ex-presidents, sworn rivals who are forced to team up to save their reputations. Their foe is current president William Haney, who tries to blame a kickback scandal on them. Things turn serious when our heroes narrowly escape a murder attempt. Bickering constantly, the duo takes to the roads and the stage is set for madcap mayhem.
Starring: James Garner, Jack Lemmon, Lauren Bacall

NO RESERVATIONS
Life and love provide the opportunity for change in the life of driven master chef Catherine Zeta-Jones in this romantic comedy remake of the German film Mostly Martha. Kate is the fiery culinary star of a chic Manhattan eatery when tragedy intervenes and she's left to care for her nine-year-old niece. Meanwhile, her boss has gone behind her back and hired a handsome sous chef. Can these two new "ingredients" form the confection that sweetens her food-obsessed life?
Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones, Aaron Eckhart

PU 239
After being exposed to a deadly dose of radiation and made a scapegoat, a devoted father and husband in post- Soviet Russia impulsively steals a small amount of Pu-239 (weapons grade plutonium) and heads to Moscow. With just days to live and desperate to provide for his loving wife and young son, he gets caught up with the city's low-level mobsters and the illegal trade of nuclear weapons, turning to an inept, wannabe gangster to help him sell the dangerous goods on the black market - with potentially deadly consequences for the whole world.
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Paddy Considine, Oscar Isaac

PERMANENT RECORD
When smart, musically talented and popular high school student David Sinclair unexpectedly commits suicide, shock and unanswered questions reverberate throughout the school. David was perfect, so where did he or his friends go wrong? His best friend, Chris Townsend, struggles with his friend's death and asks himself if he too is capable of self-destruction.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Rubin, Alan Boyce

POWER
Politics is the game and power is the prize. A provocative glimpse of how media experts have replaced the old party bosses and the press as the movers and shakers of politics in the 1980s. Most importantly, he offers viewers a portrait of what power does to those who wield it and how it changes them and those they control. Pete St John is the hotshot media consultant who sells his services to the highest bidder, only to learn the dangers of pursuing and having too much political power.
Starring: Richard Gere, Gene Hackman, Julie Christie

PURE COUNTRY
Dusty Wyatt Chandler is a superstar in the country music world. He drops out of his high-strung celebrity life to rediscover his real country roots. Under the influence of his longtime manager, Dusty has watched his down-home country show gradually swell into an overwhelming spectacle of smoke, sparks and pyrotechnics. During one performance, Dusty walks out of his concert and winds up in his hometown, to re-discover the kind of love that he had previously only sung about.
Starring: George Strait, Lesley Ann Warren

QUICK CHANGE
It seems to be the perfect crime. A baggy-pants clown with floppy shoes and a painted grin holds up a New York bank. Accomplices have fully rehearsed; the ultimate getaway has been planned. What can go wrong? How about everything! Grimm is the idealistic city-planner-turned-master-criminal trying to flee with his loot in this wacky comedy caper. His girlfriend, Phyllis and his pal Loomis are his cohorts in crime.
Starring: Randy Quaid, Bill Murray, Geena Davis

RENO 911: MIAMI
A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. They're not the best but that's all we got. Based on the successful Comedy Central TV series.
Starring: Thomas Lennon, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong

RIVER OF DEATH
Based on the best-selling novel by Alistair Maclean, River of Death tells the tale of John Hamilton, a professional tracker and adventurer who must lead his group of Nazi Hunters into the jungles of South America to the Lost City. There, they must stop the sinister Nazi scientist Dr Manteuffel from unleashing his latest tool of mass destruction – a biological weapon designed specifically to eliminate the weak, sick and most importantly, the non-Aryan on a global scale.
Starring: Robert Vaughn, Michael Dudikoff, Donald Pleasence

ROCKET GIBRALTAR
A gently moving tale of three generations of an East Coast family and its crusty patriarch. Levi Rockwell’s family travels to be with him for his 77th birthday. While his children are too wrapped up in their own problems to notice his failing health, Levi’s sympathetic grandchildren do everything they can to fulfill his dying wish.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis

ROGER & ME
Don't miss the hilarious and controversial documentary that took the critics by storm! Director Michael Moore is a treat as a deadpan modern-day Mark Twain, obsessed with interviewing General Motors chairman Roger Smith after auto-factory closings destroy the filmmaker's hometown of Flint, Michigan. Moore's attempts to corner Smith at offices and country clubs alternate with footage of Flint's outrageously absurd attempts to get back on its feet.
Starring: Michael Moore, Bob Eubanks, Roger Smith

RUSH HOUR 3
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are back in their respective roles as LAPD detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee with director Brett Ratner on board for the latest installment of the wildly popular franchise. Set in Paris, Rush Hour 3 finds Carter and Lee from West and East battling a wing of the Chinese organized crime family of the Triads – with their trademark mix of great action and big laughs. From dazzling Parisian nightclubs to the city's high-fashion runways, Rush Hour 3 promises more action, more comedy and more hilarious adventure than ever!
Starring: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan

SEMI-PRO
Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson take on the world of professional basketball in this hilarious tale of the mythical Flint, Michigan Tropics owner, coach and star player Jackie Moon and his quest to take his losing and talent-free team all the way to league champions!
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Will Ferrell, Andre Benjamin

SHY PEOPLE
Writer Diana Sullivan wants to remove her drug-addict daughter Grace from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Diana takes her daughter and heads to Louisiana to seek out an elusive great-uncle, hoping to give Grace a new start in life.
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
Sam Balwin’s 8-year-old son, Jonah, plays matchmaker and calls up a radio talk show psychologist to force his father to open up on-air. As fate would have it, Annie Reed happens to be listening in, and Sam’s testimonial of love touches her deeply. Even though she’s already engaged to be married to Walter, Annie can’t help but be intrigued by Sam. She writes him a letter, thus starting a chain of events that soon leads to true love.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Bill Pullman

SOAPDISH
An ensemble of acclaimed stars, takes you behind-the-scenes of a long-running daytime television series in this hilarious film. Celeste Talbert is the popular but insecure star of the daytime series "The Sun Also Sets," one of America's favorite soaps. Unfortunately for the cast and crew of the show, truth is always stranger than fiction, and they engage daily in a whirlwind of one-upmanship, backstabbing and cheating, enough to rival that of the soap they are working on.
Starring: Sally Field, Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Kline

SPHERE
A thousand feet below the surface of the ocean, in a small underwater research station, psychologist Norman Goodman; biochemist Beth Halperin and mathematician Harry Adams are sent to research on a 300-year-old ship with a mysterious cargo - an enormous, fantastic sphere. At first looked upon as a new and exciting subject for research, the team quickly learns better when they make contact with an alien intelligence that begins to murderously attack their underwater habitat. Based on the story by Michael Crichton and from Oscar-winning director, Barry Levinson, this sci-fi thriller will immerse you in a harrowing tale of survival.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel Jackson

STEALING HOME
A struggling professional baseball player is forced to confront his past after the suicide of a childhood friend. Mark Harmon is “tough and engaging” (Hollywood Reporter) in this bittersweet romantic drama as the man whose memories may hold the key to his future. With Jodie Foster, Harold Ramis, Blair Brown and Jonathan Silverman.
Starring: Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Silverman

TALENT FOR THE GAME
Sammy Bodean is the newest, most promising recruit according to the advertisement of the California Angels — and has to prove it come game time. Following the team's sale to young business whiz ex-player Virgil Sweet has to prove himself as the team's talent scout to keep his job. An upbeat, all-American baseball story for the family.
Starring: Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Terry Kinney

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE THE NEXT GENERATION
One of the scariest horror films of all time is reinvented for the 90s. Yes, it's time to meet ol' Leatherface again. Jenny and her date take a wrong turn down a dark country road and meet Vilmer. He is a sadistic recluse with a remote controlled mechanical leg. That's not all – at this stage, they meet Leatherface, a familiar huge, masked, chainsaw-wielding monster.
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
Taking a look at high society in 1870s New York, this film, directed by Martin Scorsese, follows the life of young lawyer, Newland Archer, when he falls passionately in love with Countess Olenska, an exotic beauty whose independence of mind is starkly at odds with the social attitudes of the time. However, as he is already engaged to the ideal society woman, May Welland, who also happens to be the Countess' cousin, he is forced to choose between what society expects of him, and what he wants out of his own life.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day Lewis, Winona Ryder

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
Matt Damon returns as the trained assassin Jason Bourne in the third explosive installment of this smash hit espionage thriller series. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, Bourne is forced to hunt down his past in order to find a future. Traveling from Moscow, Paris and London to Tangier and New York City, he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne – all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of cops, federal officers and Interpol agents who have him in their crosshairs.
Starring: Matt Damon, David Strathairn, Julia Stiles

THE BROTHERS SOLOMON
Two socially dysfunctional brothers with doctorates hatch a plan to revive their ailing father by finding a surrogate mother to bear him a grandchild.
Starring: Will Arnett, Will Forte

THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008)
Haunted by the possibility of turning into The Incredible Hulk and hurting the love of his life, Betty Ross, scientist Bruce Banner isolates himself in Mexico with the hope of finding a cure. A mishap forces him to return home, only to be pursued by a relentless military officer who would soon become The Abomination.
Starring: Liv Tyler, Edward Norton, William Hurt

THE KARATE KID PART III
Daniel and Mr. Miyagi pair up again in this second sequel. Daniel is blackmailed into competing against the vicious 'Bad Boy of Karate', Mike Barnes. Miyagi refuses to help Daniel although it is clear that Daniel is out of his league. Miyagi maintains that when karate is used to defend life and honor it means something, but when it is used to defend a trophy, karate means nothing. Daniel unwittingly gets played into the threats of his adversaries and gets set up for slaughter. Is Miyagi going to do nothing and watch his pupil and friend get pulverized?
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Noriyuki Morita

THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS
Stuck in an unhappy marriage, a neurosurgeon falls in love with a brain in a jar. He must find a new home for it. The perfect setting for a zany, madcap, screwball comedy.
Starring: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
Based on the best-selling classic by Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death tells the tale of an eighteenth century castle, hidden from the world. A costume ball is about to begin, and a masked murderer is eager to teach the guests a new tango of terror. Unsuspecting guests find themselves becoming worm-bait in a deadly game of hide and seek, as the killing spree begins. Not wanting the suspense to kill them, the guest list gets shortened quickly. Does remaining survivor Rebecca have what it takes to confront The Masque Of The Red Death?
Starring: Frank Stallone, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro

THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
The blockbuster global Mummy franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O'Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor in an epic journey that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Maria Bello and Michelle Yeoh join the cast as well as newcomer Luke Ford. In this exciting installment, the trademark thrills and visually spectacular action of the Mummy series are redefined for a new generation!
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh

THE MUMMY RETURNS
It's been eight years since Rick O' Connell and Egyptologist Evelyn saved the world from a 3000-year-old villain called Imhotep. Guess it's time for a sequel. Well, mummies die hard, and Imhotep is back to claim life immortal. Only this time, he didn't come back alone, as one more powerful than he walks the earth, with a destructive vision on his mind. When the ancient titans clash, it's up to Rick and his wife to save the world again, and make sure the dual forces of evil remain buried for good.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah

THE ONE
How far would you go to assert your self-identity? What if there was more to you than meets the eye? That's what a rogue agent assigned to monitor these universes is about to discover. Not liking what he sees, he starts killing off "inferior" versions of himself in their separate worlds so that he can get stronger, more powerful, and ultimately become "The One." Two agents, Funsch and Roedecker, are hot on his tail. Good and evil are about to get formally introduced, in this Eraser-gone-ballistic flick that comes in more than three dimensions.
Starring: Delroy Lindo, Jet Li, Carla Gugino

THE SECRET GARDEN
When ten year-old Mary's parents are killed in India, she's sent to live in her uncle's gloomy old mansion. Though her life there seems gloomy, she soon discovers an abandoned, locked garden. Aided by a local boy, she nurtures the garden – and her sickly cousin – back to glorious, blooming life.
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Kate Maberly

THE SOPRANOS 80: REMEMBER WHEN
Paulie shows up at Tony and Carmela's to alert T that the Feds are digging near Branford Avenue, where T buried a guy in 1982. Meanwhile, Uncle Jr. gets uptight at the Wycoff Therapeutic Center and urges his friends to get him out. Jr. then befriends Carter, a Chinese-American patient and rubs off some of his rudeness on him. As they drive, Tony and Paulie reminisce about the good old days including the days when Paulie made trips with Tony's dad, Johnny Boy.


THE SOPRANOS 81: CHASING IT
Tony plays in a casino and loses everything as Bobby, Christopher, Silvio and Paulie watch. After what happened to his dad, Vito Jr. goes bug-eyed and his mother Marie seeks Tony's help for a loan to relocate. At a session with Dr. Melfi, Tony complains about Jews and money while following Tony's advice, Phil talks sense into Vito Jr. to be a man to his mother.


THE SOPRANOS 82: WALK LIKE A MAN
AJ is troubled over his break-up with Blanca despite his parents' consolation. Christopher gets a drumming from Tony when he complains about Paulie's disrespect for him. Meanwhile, Tony thinks about quitting therapy with Dr. Melfi, but changes his mind when he gets emotional over his son's suicidal tendencies.


THE SOPRANOS 83: KENNEDY AND HEIDI
When Phil finds out that Tony's been dumping asbestos at the Barone garbage transfer station, he wants a piece of the action, but Tony has other plans. He begins to develop suspicions about Christopher as well when the car they're in flips. Before Christopher could do anything, Tony suffocates him and confides his relief to Dr. Melfi during one of his sessions. When Paulie's mother died and the funeral session is held on the same day as Christopher's, he gets upset over everyone attending the latter's session instead.


THE SOPRANOS 84: THE SECOND COMING
AJ's depression becomes more pronounced during his therapy sessions with Dr. Vogel while at the pork store, Tony shares stories of drugs and sex with the crew. Meanwhile, Tony meets up with Phil at his social club and things don't go that well. When AJ almost drown from contemplating suicide, Tony has to jump in and save him.


THE SOPRANOS 85: THE BLUE COMES
As Phil's impatience gathers steam and he assembles his crew, Tony finds out about this from Agent Harris. Bobby, Tony and Silvio talk about handling Phil while Dr. Melfi's therapy sessions with Tony are put into question when Eliot betrays her at a dinner party with his "talking cure" study. When Phil is taken out, news spread quickly only for Tony to realize that Phil has disappeared.


THE SOPRANOS 86: MADE IN AMERICA
Tony tries to trade information with Agent Harris over Phil's whereabouts. He visits Carmela and the kids and takes them to Uncle Bobby's funeral, despite being heavily monitored by the Feds. Meanwhile, as AJ gets closer to Rhiannon, the Feds pick up Tony's call to George while his crew cruises around looking for Phil.


THE STRANGERS
A terrifying suspense thriller starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a couple who live in a remote suburban house who are targeted by three dangerous masked strangers. The resulting clashes force the couple to go well beyond what they thought themselves capable of in order to survive. An absolutely chilling look at the most frightening thing in the world - cold-blooded, random violence.
Starring: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman

THE TAILOR OF PANAMA
Harry is an ex-con who has re-invented himself as a tailor for the crème de la crème in Panama. Harry is equally well known for spinning his yarns and tailoring suits, and when banished British spy Andy Osnard shows up, all hell breaks lose as Harry's yarns set off a chain of events that threatens his life and the very fate of Panama.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis

TO BE FAT LIKE ME
Pretty, popular and athletic Aly has been banking on a softball scholarship as her ticket to college. But when a sports injury blows out her knee, the teen enters a documentary contest to win the prize money for her education. Convinced that her overweight younger brother and mother use their struggles with weight as an excuse for everything wrong in their lives, Aly decides to go undercover wearing a fat suit and hidden camera to prove personality can outshine physical appearance. But this high schooler has no idea how harsh the world is when you’re fat.
Starring: Kaley Cuoco, Caroline Rhea

TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY
Letting go is harder for some people than it is for others. For David Lewis, it's impossible. He refuses to accept the fact that his wife, Gillian, has died tragically, so much so that she even appears to return to him from beyond the grave. As the family celebrates the Labor Day weekend, relationships are re-examined and truths revealed. When David discovers that his obsession with Gillian is about to damage his relationship with his daughter Rachel, he realizes that he must regain his daughter's love, even if it means letting go of his beloved Gillian.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Peter Gallagher

TOMCATS
This slapstick romantic comedy tells the story of Michael Delaney, a struggling cartoonist who must get his best friend, and avowed bachelor, to wed within 30 days, in order to win a bet and save himself from financial ruin. Things get complicated when Michael falls for the woman meant to be his friend's bride, setting the stage for fierce competition as the two men vie for her affections. Look out for some truly inspired heavy-handed gags such as Michael's goofball, slapstick adventures with an amputated testicle, as well as the hilarious antics of an S&M crazed grandma.
Starring: Jake Busey, Jerry O'Connell, Shannon Elizabeth

TOTALLY AWESOME
Pitting formula against itself in the name of comedy is a surefire plan. Totally Awesome throws one teen movie cliché after another at the audience in a spoof which will feel familiar to anyone who has ever been a teenager.
Starring: Dominique Swain, Mikey Day, Nicki Clyne

UNFORGIVEN
In this unflinchingly brutal portrait of the American West, William Munny is a former gunfighter and thief, struggling to overcome his dark past. Desperate for money to support his children, he accepts one final job: to kill a couple of sinister cowboys. Riding into town with his old partner, Ned Logan, Munny soon comes up against the local sheriff, Little Bill Daggett. Daggett is a hard-nosed lawmaker who intends to chase any trouble out of town the second it rides in. However, before Munny and Daggett are through with each other, there will be plenty of blood spilled.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman

WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY
The tumultuous life of musician Dewey Cox is told in this story where his personal life is as sensational as the songs he sang. A constant womanizer thrice married and friends to Elvis and the Beatles, Dewey Cox soon grows into a national icon and must learn to readjust his love-life when he eventually falls for Darlene, his long-time backup singer.
Starring: Tim Meadows, John Reilly

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
Robin Williams stars as Chris Nielsen, a doctor who is killed in a freak accident and is survived by his wife, Annie. He wakes up in a private universe, which miraculously takes the shape of his wife's semi-impressionist paintings, with guide Albert showing him the ropes. However, back on Earth, a depressed Annie realizes she can't go on without Chris and subsequently commits suicide, condemning herself to Hell. Chris decides to risk spending eternity in Hades for the small chance that he may be able to bring her back to heaven.
Starring: Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, Cuba Gooding Jr

WHERE'S MARLOWE?
Two budding filmmakers are hell-bent on making their movie a success, even if they have to star in it themselves, pass on directing honors to their lead actor, and get their hands dirty trying to solve a murder mystery. After their first bomb-buster, Wilton and AJ, two film school graduates make a documentary about a down-and-out LA detective, Boone, who's behind on his rent and who's determined to change that. But their lessons in moviemaking will have to give way to murder-solving when Boone's partner ends up dead.
Starring: Miguel Ferrer, Mos Def, John Livingston

WITHOUT LIMITS
This is the true story of the legendary long distance runner Steve Prefontaine. The movie follows Prefontaine’s upbringing through his days at Oregon University to the Munich Olympics. Unfortunately, the talented athlete’s life ended at a tender age of 24 in a car accident.
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Billy Crudup, Monica Potter

WOLF
A New York book editor, Will Randall, is a man on his way down the business ladder. His new boss tells Randall that he's being replaced – by someone that Randall thought was his friend, the traitorous Stewart Swinton. He even loses his wife to this chief business rival. Then, on a lonely Vermont road, a bite from a wolf changes everything. Suddenly he's got the killer instinct it takes to survive – both in the forest and in the business. But once his animal instincts take over, is there any turning back?
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jack Nicholson, James Spader