[Submitted via press release]
The following movies are scheduled for broadcast on M-Net Stars (Channel 105) in June 2012. Please note that dates, times and programmes may change.
Monday Nights
DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD Monday 6 August at 19:30
Directed by Stephen Herek. Starring Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy and John Getz (1991)
Mrs Crandall goes away for a long vacation in Australia, leaving a seemingly sweet little old lady as babysitter to her five children. The lady turns out to be not so sweet, and when she dies from a heart attack, the children dump her body on the mortuary steps and decide to look after themselves. This, however, is not the end of the children's problems.
BURGLAR Monday 13 August at 19:30
Directed by Hugh Wilson. Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait and G.W. Bailey (1987)
A petty burglar stumbles across a murder and quickly becomes a prime suspect.
SCOOP Monday 20 August at 19:30
Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman and Jim Dunk (2006)
The prominent, recently-belated U.K. journalist, Joe Strombel, is being mourned by his fellow colleagues. Meanwhile, even as he's frustrated about being stuck in limbo, Joe remains committed to pursuing a hot tip on the identity of "the Tarot Card Killer" who's still at-large in London.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION Monday 27 August at 19:30
Directed by Christopher Guest. Starring Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer and Parker Posey (2006)
Marilyn Hack, a veteran but unknown actress is starring in a low-budget drama called Home for Purim. One day she hears a rumour about her nomination for an Oscar. Soon the rumour is spread and a distribution company thinks it's a good idea to acquire the film.
Tuesday Nights
COUSIN BETTE Tuesday 7 August at 19:30
Directed by Des McAnuff. Starring Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue and Bob Hoskins (1998)
Bette is the poor, spinster relative of a noble family headed by the lecherous Hector, who has succeeded in virtually bankrupting the entire household. Bette seeks to gain revenge on Hector and the other family members via various machinations, successful and otherwise.
THE NATIVITY STORY Tuesday 14 August at 19:30
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Oscar Isaac (2006)
A Christmas story of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.
LADIES IN LAVENDER Tuesday 21 August at 19:30
Directed by Charles Dance. Starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Daniel Brühl (2004)
Set in 1936, two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930's Cornish seaside village.
BECOMING JANE Tuesday 28 August at 19:30
Directed by Julian Jarrold. Starring Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy and Julie Walters (2007)
When the dashing Tom Lefroy, a reckless and penniless lawyer-to-be, enters Jane's life, he offends the emerging writer's sense and sensibility. Soon their clashing egos set off sparks that ignite a passionate romance and fuel Jane's dream of doing the unthinkable - marrying for love.
Wednesday Nights
WILDCATS Wednesday 1 August at 19:30
Directed by Michael Ritchie. Starring Goldie Hawn, Swoosie Kurtz and Robyn Lively (1986)
The daughter of a legendary football coach tangles with a high school coach and sparks fly. Her ex-husband is trying to get custody of their children, which ends in a court battle.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY Wednesday 8 August at 19:30
Directed by Norman Jewison. Starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck and Penelope Ann Miller (1991)
A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is captivated by her and enjoys the thrust and deflects of legal maneuvering, as he tries to win her heart.
WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP Wednesday 15 August at 19:30
Directed by George Roy Hill. Starring Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt and Glenn Close (1982)
The story of the life of T.S. Garp, the illegitimate son of his feminist mother, Jenny Fields.
WRONGFULLY ACCUSED Wednesday 22 August at 19:30
Directed by Pat Proft. Starring Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna and Kelly LeBrock (1998)
Ryan Harrison is framed for murder and must prove himself innocent by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man, after escaping from a bus accident on the way to jail.
THE BIG BOUNCE Wednesday 29 August at 19:30
Directed by George Armitage. Starring Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman and Gary Sinise (2004)
Jack Ryan goes to Hawaii and gets a job looking after a judge on the island. The job leads to him a getting involved with a woman who is the girlfriend of a property tycoon and longtime rival of the judge.
Thursday Nights
WITH HONORS Thursday 2 August at 19:30
Directed by Alek Keshishian. Starring Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser and Moira Kelly (1994)
Monty, a Harvard student, drops the only copy of his 100-page thesis into the hands of Simon, a homeless man who lives under the college library. Insulted by the way in which Monty dismisses him, he offers to return one page of the thesis for each good turn from Monty, who in desperation, brings Simon home with him.
THE WOMEN Thursday 9 August at 19:30
Directed by Diane English. Starring Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes and Annette Bening (2008)
Mary Haines is a modern-day diva strutting her way through Manhattan society, dominating in a world of publishing, fashion and finance. Then Mary's world shatters when she faces an age-old dilemma: a cheating husband.
As her life crumbles, her friends circle to support her. But in this group of high-powered modern women, the rivalries soon surface as the claws come out and friendships are put to the ultimate test.
GRACE IS GONE Thursday 16 August at 19:30
Directed by James C. Strouse. Starring John Cusack, Emily Churchill and Rebecca Spence (2007)
Stanley works as a store manager, while his wife Grace is away fighting in Iraq. He'd like to be there too, but his eyesight won't allow him. When two military men pitch up at his door, he knows why they are there.
Stanley now has to tell his daughters, Heidi, 12, and Dawn, 8, that their mother won't be coming home. But he just can't bring himself to do it. So, on an impulse, he packs the girls into the car and takes them on a cross-country trip to Florida.
THE QUEEN Thursday 23 August at 19:30
Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen and James Cromwell (2006)
A revealing, witty, portrait of the British royal family in crisis, immediately following the death of Princess Diana. HRM Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
DANCES WITH WOLVES Thursday 30 August at 19:30
Directed by Kevin Costner. Starring Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell and Graham Greene (1990)
During the 1890s, Union soldier John Dunbar is given his own outpost near the frontier. Liking its remoteness, he decides to stay, and gradually develops a relationship of mutual trust with the Sioux. By the time the army comes back, Dunbar has joined the Sioux, and, now named Dances with Wolves, sides with them in the ensuing conflict.
Friday Nights
MILLIONS Friday 3 August at 19:30
Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Alex Etel, James Nesbitt and Daisy Donovan (2004)
A week before Britain commits to the Euro, a train robbery occurs, in which bags full of sterling notes on their way to the incinerator are stolen. In the vicinity are seven and nine year old Damian and Anthony, who find a huge bag of the money falling at their feet.
The boys have a week to spend the quarter of a million pounds before the school authorities or the train robbers catch up with them and both have different plans for what to spend it on.
SAMOAN WEDDING Friday 10 August at 19:30
Directed by Chris Graham. Starring Oscar Kightley, Iaheto Ah Hi and Shimpal Lelisi (2006)
Four young Samoan men try to win back the right to attend their best friend's wedding.
KING KONG Friday 17 August at 19:30
Directed by Peter Jackson. Starring Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody (2005)
Unscrupulous film director, Carl Denham, leaves the New York Depression behind to lead his cast and crew to the jungle of Skull Island, said to be home to a mythical giant ape known as Kong. When island residents abduct the leading lady, Ann, to sacrifice her to the ape, Carl's team risk life and limb to rescue her. After surviving encounters with dinosaurs and giant bugs, the crew capture Kong and take him to New York. There Kong creates havoc in his pursuit Ann, whom he seems to have feelings for.
MISS CONGENIALITY Friday 24 August at 19:30
Directed by Donald Petrie. Starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine and Benjamin Bratt (2000)
Gracie Hart is an FBI agent confined to desk work because her clumsy antics managed to get a colleague of hers shot. She is brought back into active service when a terrorist - called 'the Citizen' - threatens to bomb the upcoming Miss USA pageant and Hart is sent in undercover. Her transformation from agent to beauty queen is aided by consultant Victor Melling.
NOTTING HILL Friday 31 August at 19:30
Directed by Roger Michell. Starring Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts and Richard McCabe (1999)
William Thacker is a young(ish) man who has a small bookshop in Notting Hill, and shares a flat with Spike, an unkempt Welshman. Nothing spectacular or exciting seems ever to happen to William - until the day that American superstar actress Anna Scott walks into his shop. William is naturally starstruck, but things would end there were it not for the fact that William subsequently accidentally spills his drink over Anna in the street.
Saturday Nights
BACK TO GAYA Saturday 4 August at 19:30
Directed by Lenard Fritz Krawinkel, Holger Tappe.Starring Patrick Stewart, Emily Watson and Glenn Wrage (2004)
Timid inventor Boo, the heroic Zino, mayor's daughter Alanta, and the Snurks are all characters who live in Gaya, which features in a popular television series.
They are accidentally transported into the world of humans when the evil Dr.N.Icely steals the object of Gaya's power source and equilibrium for his own wicked ends. Their journey takes them into another world that is both strange and frightening.
HOODWINKED! Saturday 11 August at 19:30
Directed by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards. Starring Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close and Patrick Warburton (2005)
There's always more to every tale than meets the eye. Furry and feathered cops from the animal world, Chief Grizzly and Detective Bill Stork, investigate a domestic disturbance at Granny's cottage, involving a girl, a wolf and an axe.
The charges are many: breaking and entering, disturbing the peace, intent to eat, and wielding an axe without a license. Not to mention, this case might be tied to the elusive "Goody Bandit" who has been stealing the recipes of goody shops everywhere.
IGOR Saturday 18 August at 19:30
Directed by Anthony Leondis. Starring John Cusack, Molly Shannon and Steve Buscemi (2008)
A mad scientist's hunchbacked assistant dreams of becoming a scientist himself, much to the dismay of the evil scientist community.
ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES Saturday 25 August at 19:30
Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow and Madonna (2006)
Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, a tiny people living in harmony with nature.
Sunday Nights
RAY Sunday 5 August at 19:30
Directed by Taylor Hackford. Starring Jamie Foxx, Regina King and Kerry Washington (2004)
Born in a poor town in Georgia, Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven shortly after witnessing his younger brother's accidental death. Inspired by a fiercely independent mother who insisted he make his own way in the world, Charles found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard.
Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered incorporating gospel, country, jazz and orchestral influences into his inimitable style.
As he revolutionised the way people appreciated music, he simultaneously fought segregation in the very clubs that launched him and championed artists' rights within the corporate music business.
WHO’S THAT GIRL Sunday 12 August at 19:30
Directed by James Foley. Starring Madonna, Griffin Dunne and Haviland Morris (1987)
Upon her release, a streetwise parolee innocent of the crime for which she was jailed, is to be driven to the bus station by an ambitious, straight-laced corporate attorney. But she has other ideas, and the hapless lawyer must face the fact that his tidy world is about to dissolve into chaos.
BIRD Sunday 19 August at 19:30
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora and Michael Zelniker (1988)
A biography of jazz saxaphonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS Sunday 26 August at 19:30
Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins and Christopher Guest (2005)
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.