Movies coming up on SABC2 in October 2007:
Lethal Weapon
Monday 1 October 2007 at 22h00
Action/Thriller
Mel Gibson stars as a one-man killing machine, a Los Angeles policeman who recently lost his wife and has been acting increasingly unstable. Danny Glover plays a by-the-book homicide detective with an impeccable record and a loving family. Now the two are stuck with each other as partners, investigating a suicide that leads to an international crime ring and ever-increasing danger in this blockbuster action thriller.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Tom Atkins.
Patch Adams
Saturday 6 October 2007 at 21h00
Drama/Comedy
Oscar winner Robin Williams stars as Hunter "Patch" Adams who, after staying in a mental hospital, decides to enlist in med school to become a doctor in the 70s. Determined to help patients with a unique blend of personal attention and humor, Adams turns the medical world upside-down with his unorthodox-but-effective treatments. Spirited and touching, Williams gives an inspiring performance as a doctor who cares with a powerful cast including Academy Award-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Golden Globe winner Harve Presnell, and Golden Globe nominee Michael Jeter.
Starring: Robin Williams, Philip Hoffman, Monica Potter.
Frequency
Saturday 06 October 2007 at 23h00
Drama/Thriller
A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history-again.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Shawn Doyle.
Lethal Weapon II
Monday 08 October 2007 at 22h00
Action/Thriller
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are back as a volatile pair of Los Angeles police detectives with completely opposite law-enforcement styles.
This time the cops are unhappy with their assignment to baby-sit an accountant. But the mob wants the accountant dead-and is killing everyone who gets in its way in this blockbuster action comedy.
Starring: Mel Gibson , Danny Glover, Joe Pesci.
Sphere
Saturday 13 October 2007 at 23h00
Thriller
A thousand feet below the ocean surface, fear can kill. Two-time Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman stars with Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson in the science fiction thriller Sphere.
When a team of scientists--psychologist Norman Goodman (Hoffman), biochemist Beth Halperin (Stone) and mathematician Harry Adams (Jackson)--descends into the murky ocean depths to explore an ancient spacecraft resting on the Pacific floor, they discover the ship's mysterious cargo. But contact with a murderous alien intelligence proves deadly. Now, with all surface communications cut off and casualties rising, the desperate survivors must face a shocking truth.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson, Sharon Stone.
Lethal Weapon III
Monday 15 October 2007 at 22h00
Action/Thriller
Police officers Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) team for the third time. This time they must track down a crooked cop who has stolen weapons from the Los Angeles police depot. Riggs and Murtaugh also have to deal with Leo Getz (Joe Pesci), the motormouth from Lethal Weapon 2, and Riggs has very special problems with a young and beautiful female police officer (Rene Russo).
Action sequences include imploding buildings, high-speed freeway chases against traffic, 80-foot falls, hitching a ride on the windshield of a moving subway car and torching a dozen tract houses in an abandoned sub-division.
Starring: Danny Glover, Mel Gibson
Fallen
Saturday 20 October 2007 at 23h30
Horror/Thriller
Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington stars as a tenacious homicide detective caught in the grasp of unimaginable evil in the suspense-thriller Fallen.
Detective John Hobbes (Washington) and his partner, Jonesy (John Goodman), apprehend a demonic serial killer and witness his execution--but the grisly murders continue. Do these new slayings point to a copycat killer--or something even more sinister? As the investigation unfolds, Hobbes' superior officer, Lieutenant Stanton (Donald Sutherland), makes a frightening discovery. Now, Detective Hobbes confronts one waking nightmare after another as he battles the evil that dwells within the hearts and souls of the Fallen.
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland.
Lethal Weapon IV
Monday 22 October 2007 at 22h00
Action/Thriller
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover reteam as a pair of Los Angeles police detectives in this hilarious, slam-bang sequel.
Promoted to desk jobs to keep them out of trouble, the two cops join forces with a junior detective and a fast-talking private investigator to unravel a series of crimes involving immigrant smuggling and counterfeiting.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci.
Ghost Ship
Saturday 27 October 2007 at 23h00
Horror/Thriller
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre ocurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard.
Sharky’s Machine
Monday 29 October 2007 at 22h00
Drama/Thriller
Tom Sharky is a narcotics cop in Atlanta who's demoted to vice after a botched bust. In the depths of this lowly division, while investigating a high-dollar prostitution ring, Sharky stumbles across a mob murder with government ties, and responds by assembling his downtrodden fellow investigators (Sharky's "machine") to find the leaders and bring them to justice before they kill off all his partners and witnesses, including Sharky himself.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith.