A listing of all the movies premiering on M-Net in October:
SUNDAY NIGHT PREMIERES
Important notice: There will be no movie at 20:00 on 7 and 14 October due to the Rugby World Cup.
YOU ME AND DUPREE
Sunday 21 October at 20:00
2006 108 min Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas
Newlyweds Molly and Carl find their marriage taking strain when Carl’s best friend, the wacky, childish, messy Dupree, moves in with them. Fresh after an idyllic honeymoon in Hawaii and keen to begin married life, Carl and Molly arrive at their cosy home in the suburbs to find - Dupree.
Dupree is Carl’s wacky best friend, and he’s just lost his job, his car and his apartment. Everything he owns is in his backpack. Can he stay? But it soon becomes clear that Dupree is not housetrained. He stinks up the bathroom, orders pay TV, and invites friends over to party.
This makes Carl, already grumpy because his boss (Molly’s father) is making his life hell at the office, even grumpier, and he kicks Dupree out. Then Molly invites him back. Soon the marriage is heading for the rocks, and it’s up to the loveable lodger to clean up his act and show the couple just what a good marriage they have.
MONDAY NIGHT PREMIERES
WHY I WORE MY LIPSTICK TO MY MASTECTOMY
Monday, 1 October at 20:30
2006 90 min Directed by Peter Werner. Sarah Chalke, Jay Harrington, Lally Cadeau.
Based on a true story and memoir of the same name. With so many things going good in her life-great husband and friends, wonderful family, dream job-the last thing 27-year-old Geralyn Lucas expects is to be diagnosed with breast cancer. While having fear and doubts, Geralyn finds self-acceptance by relying on courage, humor, and her red lipstick.
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
Monday, 8 October at 20:30.
2005 98 min Directed by Jason Reitman. Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, William H Macy, Robert Duvall
Sly satire about a pro-smoking spin doctor who has his work cut out trying to keep tobacco companies happy while at the same time trying to be an example to his young son. Where there’s smoke, there’s someone trying to put out fires. This is certainly the case with Nick Naylor, spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies.
As spin doctor for tobacco companies, at a time when smoking has never been more unpopular, he has the toughest job in the world. He has to persuade the Marlboro Man, who’s just been diagnosed with lung cancer, not to sue. He has to convince a big Hollywood producer to bring back smoking in movies.
He has to fight a senator’s court action to get pictures of skulls and crossbones placed on cigarette packaging. And he has to set an example for his son, Joey, 12.
As he commiserates with other “merchants of death” – a woman who promotes alcohol and a man who promotes gun ownership – he gets involved with a Washington Probe reporter whose real agenda is not sex, but the stories he’ll tell her when she gives him sex. It’s all enough to make a man take up smoking.
Based on the novel by Christopher Buckley.
THE WEATHER MAN
Monday, 15 October at 20:30
2005 101 min Directed by Gore Verbinksi. Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Gemmenne de la Pena
Offbeat character piece about a Chicago weatherman whose personal life is in crisis while his professional life is soaring. Dave Spritz, a weatherman working for a Chicago TV station, is being buffeted about by life’s storms. His ex-wife still bears a grudge against him, his two teenage kids – a son who spent time in rehab for drugs and an overweight daughter with self-esteem issues – don’t like him, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning writer father treats him with disdain.
The only thing he’s good at is his job, although even that is questionable as “fans” throw food at him wherever he goes. But there is a silver lining to his dark cloud: a New York TV station has shown interest in him. Could sunny days be just around the corner?
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS
Monday, 22 October at 20:30
2005 103 min Directed by Stephen Frears. Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, Will Young, Thelma Barlow, Christopher Guest
Period comedy drama based on the life of aristocrat widow Laura Henderson, who staged the infamous all-nude reviews at London's Windmill Theatre in the 1930s.
DOWN IN THE VALLEY
Monday, 29 October at 20:30
2005 114 min Directed by David Jacobson. Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse, Bruce Dern, Rory Culkin.
A revisionist western about a homeless cowboy whose life starts spiralling out of control when he becomes involved with a teenage girl, her kid brother and their corrections officer father.
TUESDAY NIGHT ENCORES
TRIAL & RETRIBUTION XII: PARADISE LOST 0002
Tuesday, 2 October at 23:00
2007 90 mins Directed by Alex Pillai. David Hayman, Victoria Smurfit
The black boyfriend of a white school teacher is arrested for her murder when he is found covered in her blood and unable to remember anything.
TRIAL & RETRIBUTION XIII: MIRROR IMAGE – Part 1
Tuesday, 9 October at 23:00
2007 Directed by Tristram Powell. David Hayman, Victoria Smurfit.
When a baby is found dead in her cot, two detectives must track down the infant’s nanny, whose glowing CV hides a sinister secret.
TRIAL & RETRIBUTION XIII: MIRROR IMAGE - Part 2
Tuesday, 16 October at 23:00
2007 Directed by Tristram Powell. David Hayman, Victoria Smurfit
When a baby is found dead in her cot, two detectives must track down the infant’s nanny, whose glowing CV hides a sinister secret.
THE RING TWO
Tuesday, 23 October at 23:00
2005 90 min Directed by Hideo Nakata. Actor, David Dorfman, Kelly Stables
Gripping sequel to The Ring, the horror movie about a curse inside a videotape. This time, our heroine must save her son from being taken over by a dead girl's spirit.
ALIEN VS PREDATOR
Tuesday, 30 October at 23:00
2004 92 min Directed by Paul W Anderson. Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Raoul Bova
Remember Alien? The mutating gooey extra-terrestrial monster Ellen Ripley battled in outer space? How about the Predator, the invisible monster Arnold Schwarzenegger was up against in the Latin American jungle?
Alien vs Predator takes two of the deadliest monsters of recent movie history and pits them against each other. But don't relax quite yet: when humans move in on to their turf, the monsters find a new enemy to fight. It all starts when Alexa Woods, a young female scientist, accompanies a group of scientists, archaeologists and adventurers to the Antarctic, where a mysterious pyramid has been found beneath the ice.
As they descend into the depths, they discover that the pyramid is a sacrificial chamber of some kind, and that they have stumbled into a war between Predators and Aliens, two of the deadliest creatures known to Man. Humans start to die, horribly?
WEDNESDAY NIGHT PREMIERES
JUST MY LUCK
Wednesday, 3 October at 21:00
2006 103 min Directed by Donald Petrie. Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Bree Turner, Faizon Love
A lighthearted comedy aimed at teenage girls about a girl who kisses a boy at a masked ball, loses him and her lucky streak, then frantically tries to get both back.
Can luck be transferred through bodily fluids? More specifically, through a kiss? This is the premise of this frothy comedy about two young people, the very lucky Ashley and the very unlucky Jake, who meet cute at a masked ball, kiss, then vanish from each other’s lives.
Suddenly, Ashley is the unlucky one and Jake has all the luck in the world, creating chaos in both lives. There’s only one solution: Ashley will have to find him and kiss him all over again, even if it means kissing a whole lot of frogs along the way!
YOURS, MINE & OURS
Wednesday, 10 October at 21:00
2006 90 min Directed by Raja Gosnell. Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Rip Torn, Linda Hunt, Jerry O'Connell
When two very different people marry and move into a lighthouse with their 18 children, the kids start conspiring how to split their parents up so they can get their old lives back. Frank is a Coast Guard admiral with 8 kids. Helen is a fashion designer with 10 kids - 4 of her own and 8 adopted from Third World countries.
Both widowed, the former high school sweethearts meet up again at their high school reunion, and fall in love all over again. Before you can say, “HOW many kids did you say you have!?”, they are married, and all 20 individuals and a pet pig move into a big lighthouse home on the coast. The two families are like chalk and cheese.
Frank runs his kids and his home like a tight ship, while Helen believes in inspired chaos. Both sets of kids want their old lives back, but in order to accomplish this, they will have to stop fighting and start working on ways to get their parents to fight instead. Can the opposing sides of this madcap family find a middle ground?
AFTER SEX
Wednesday, 17 October at 21:00
2007 90 min Directed by Eric Amadio. Jane Seymour, Marc Blucas, Mariah Bruna.
An edgy relationship comedy that uses sex as a background to examine intimacy and vulnerability. It's a humorous, yet honest look at the complexity of modern day relationships told through nine separate couples.
Through witty dialogue and compromising situations, the film takes us from the beginning of a relationship to the aftermath of one, and examines every stage in between while somehow finding humor within the drama, heartache and confusion of it all. What is learned about human emotions and vulnerability is enlightening and entertainingly sexy and fun.
HUSTLE & FLOW
Wednesday, 24 October at 21:00
2005 110 min Directed by Craig Brewer. Isaac Hayes, Terrence Howard, Taryn Manning
Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention.
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS
Wednesday, 31 October at 21:00
2006 90 min Directed by Simon West. Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Derek de Lint, Kate Jennings Grant
Slasher movie about a babysitter who finds herself being terrorised by a stranger’s phone calls, only to discover that the calls are coming from inside the house. This moderately tense remake of a 1979 thriller stars Camilla Belle (The Ballad of Jack and Rose) as Jill, a teenager who has just arrived at the remote lakeside home of a couple to babysit their young children. The couple have hardly left, when Jill starts getting mysterious phone calls.
At first she thinks it’s a prankster, perhaps even a kid from school, until the voice on the other end asks her if she’s checked up on the children. Seriously spooked, Jill calls her father, but he doesn’t answer his phone. By the time she gets someone to believe she’s in danger, she is told: the calls are coming from inside the house …
THURSDAY NIGHT PREMIERES
THE LIBERTINE
Thursday, 4 October at 22:45
2004 109 min Directed by Laurence Dunmore. Johnny Depp, Paul Ritter, John Malkovich
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual intercourse flourish. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from the exile to London.
John is a morally corrupt, drunkard and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make him pleased. John meets the aspirant actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her a great star.
He falls in love for her, and she becomes his mistress; during the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls in disgrace in the court. When he was thirty-three years old, he was dying of syphilis associated to alcoholism and he converted to a religious man.
SECRET LIVES OF THE DENTISTS
Thursday, 11 October at 22:45
2004 99 min Directed by Alan Rudolph. Campbell Scott, Denis Leary, Robin Tunney
David and Dana Hurst share a dental practice in Westchester County, a marriage, and three young daughters. Noise seems a constant in the household, and the youngest doesn't want her dad out of sight. Dana's in the chorus of a community opera production of 'Nabucco,' and when David pops backstage before curtain to give her a good-luck charm, he sees her with another man, clearly infatuated, maybe in love.
As David sorts out what to do, in imagined conversations with an unhappy patient, his grief leads to aberrant acts, and violence seems close at hand. A bout of the flu that runs through the family brings things to a head.
RENT
Thursday, 18 October at 22:45
2005 135 min Directed by Chris Columbus. Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L Martin
In this update of La Boheme, a group of bohemians living in New York’s East Village in 1989 band together to battle poverty, drug use and HIV/Aids.
This musical takes viewers on a magical musical mystery tour to New York’s East Village, circa 1989, where an eclectic group of bohemians - four of whom are HIV positive - are struggling to deal with love, loss and financial insecurity.
The story follows eight people over the course of one year: Mark, a struggling documentary filmmaker; Roger, his musician roommate who is still mourning the death of his ex-girlfriend; Mimi, a heroin-addicted exotic dancer who develops a crush on Roger; Maureen, a performance artist who used to date Mark before she started dating a lesbian lawyer; Joanne, the lesbian lawyer; Tom, a gay computer genius who falls for a drag queen; Angel, the drag queen; and Benny, the landlord who is threatening to evict old friends Mark and Roger unless they come up with the rent.
Based on the award-winning Broadway musical.
RED ROVER
Thursday, 25 October at 22:45
2003 75 min Directed by Marc S. Grenier. William Baldwin, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe
Two siblings played travel to their families old, ancestrial estate upon the death of their father. They soon find out the hard way about their families ancient secret of witchcraft and the occult.
FRIDAY NIGHT PREMIERES
TWO FOR THE MONEY
Friday, 5 October at 23:00
2005 120 min Directed by DJ Carus. Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante
A football pro turned sports forecaster joins a big firm with links to big gambling where he becomes unbelievably successful, until his lucky streak runs out. Brandon Lang once had aspirations of being a football star, until an injury put paid to his dreams.
Now he works for a 1-900 telephone number service, where his knack for picking winners in various sports soon catches the eye of Walter Abrams, who runs a New York TV show in which his star presenters, Jerry and Chuck, give betting tips to gamblers.
Brandon joins the team, and his uncanny ability to choose winners – he has a 80% success rate – soon makes him the star of the show, attracting big money from high stake gamblers.
But there are drawbacks: Jerry and Chuck resent the newcomer’s success, and Walter’s wife Toni worries that all the excitement could awaken Walter’s old gambling addiction. And what will happen if Brandon’s winning streak runs out, as it invariably must?
GLORY ROAD
Friday, 12 October at 23:20
2006 118 min Directed by James Gartner. Josh Lucas, Jon Voight
40 years ago, Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land, black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Haskins and his Miners came together as a team united to reach the National Championship game against powerhouse Kentucky.
Important notice: There will be no movie on Friday, 19 October due to the Rugby World Cup.
SIN CITY
Friday, 26 October at 23:25
2003 124 min Directed by Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino. Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Rutger Hauer, Benicio Del Toro
Homage to Frank Miller’s graphic novels about several people whose lives intersect in a city filled with killers, rapists and corrupt politicians.
SATURDAY NIGHT ENCORES
Important notice: There will be no movie at 20:00 on Saturday 6, 13 and 20 October due to the Rugby World Cup
DIE HARD
Saturday, 27 October at 20:00
1988 132 min Directed by John Mctiernan. Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedella
It's going to be a black Christmas, if international terrorist Hans Gruberg gets his way. He has taken over a building in Los Angeles and is holding all the people in it hostage, just so he can lay his hands on $600 mill of bearer bonds.
DIE HARD II:
Saturday 27 October at 22:15
1990 124 min Directed by Renny Harlin. Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia.
L.A. cop John McLane is awaiting the arrival of his wife Holly at Washington's Dulles Airport, when a group of terrorists take over the airports radar facility. Their mission? To free a South American drug dealer being extradited to America.
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