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SET this September, 2008:
Mr. DeedsThursday 4 September 4, 2008
Time: 20h00
Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) is a sweet guy who owns a pizzeria in tiny Mandrake Falls. Life is good at the small-town restaurant until a slick corporate mogul (Peter Gallagher) brings news that Deeds is about to be rolling in a different kind of dough.
A long-lost relative has left him an inheritance of $40 billion, along with the largest media company in the world, a football team, a basketball team and a private helicopter ready to whisk him off to corporate America.
It’s a fish-out-of-water story that has local tabloid reporters, including Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), hot on his trail. With the help of his newly-acquired valet, Emilio (John Turturro), Deeds ultimately discovers what life is really all about and proves that money changes everything, but not everyone.
Directed by Steven Brill, 2002.
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Finding ForresterSaturday 20 September 20, 2008
Time: 20h00
Reclusive novelist William Forrester (Sean Connery) won a Pulitzer Prize four decades ago, but hasn’t been heard from since. When African American scholar-athlete Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) sneaks into his apartment and accidentally leaves behind his backpack full of writings, they both get something unexpected in return.
Jamal encounters both his first fan, and a mentor who will challenge and change him forever, while Forrester has a reason to emerge from his self-imposed solitude.
However, their friendship is tested when Jamal is accused of plagiarism by autocratic Professor Crawford (F. Murray Abraham). Jamal must decide between following his dream or betraying a friend and Forrester must either remain secluded or decide to see the world through new eyes.
Directed by Gus van Sant (Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho), 2000.
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The NetTuesday, 30 September 2008
Time: 20h00
Sandra Bullock stars as Angela Bennett, a freelance computer analyst whose quiet life begins to unravel after a top-secret computer programme falls into her hands and a colleague has a mysterious plane crash.
Escaping for a much-needed vacation to Mexico, she meets a charming, wealthy young businessman (Jeremy Northam) and guarded enthusiasm is supplanted by fear when she is nearly killed for the computer disk that holds the programme.
Not only has she lost her keys, passport and ID, Angela soon learns that someone has altered every record of her life. With a suspicious new name and identity, a falsified police record, no identification or credibility, she must search within herself for the strength and resources to fight the forces determined to silence her.
Directed by Irvin Winkler, 1995.
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