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October 21 - 27, 2009
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Wednesday (Oct 21) Film - The Terminal on Fox Movies at 11pm.

Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) is a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe. His homeland erupts in a fiery coup, while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorised to actually enter the US and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal's international transit lounge, until the war at home is over. As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance.

THURSDAY (Oct 22)

Film - Maid in Manhattan on Fox Movies at 11pm.

Can a wealthy Republican politician (Ralph Fiennes) find happiness with a chambermaid from the Bronx? One man is about to find out, though he hardly realises it at first, in this romantic comedy from director Wayne Wang. Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) is a single mother who is raising her gifted but under-confident son Ty (Tyler Garcia Posey) on her own, with some help from her mother Veronica (Priscilla Lopez), after divorcing her husband.

FRIDAY (Oct 23)

Film - Swimfan on Star Movies at 8 30pm.

Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford) seems to have it all: an elite high school swimmer on his way to Stanford and in love with his high school sweetheart, Amy (Shiri Appleby). His life is interrupted by the arrival of the beautiful and sultry new student, Madison Bell (Erika Christensen). Immediately setting her sights on Ben, he tries to resist her strong advances. But Madison won't take no for an answer and her attempts jeopardise his future and his relationship with Amy. To end her reign of terror, Ben must find a way to expose Madison for her true self before she ruins everything he has worked for.

SATURDAY (Oct 24)

Documentary - Locked Up Abroad: Hooked in Havana on NGC at 6pm.

When Kahlilah Saleem meets music producer Roy her life is transformed. She moves from Philadelphia to Miami with her six-year-old daughter. But, when Roy offers Kahlilah the chance to travel to Panama to see the Carnival, her hopes are turned upside-down. Roy abandons Kahlilah in Panama with a bag stuffed with 8kg of cocaine. He returns to the US and holds her daughter hostage to force Kahlilah to smuggle the bag to Paris. Along the way she makes friends with English backpacker and drug mule Laura, who makes it onto the plane but Kahlilah is caught with the drugs. After six years in prison, Kahlilah is finally reunited with her daughter.

SUNDAY (Oct 25)

Football - Barclays Premier League Toshiba Super Sunday Live & Exclusive on Showsports 1 & 2 at 4.30pm.

It's quite simply the leading fixture in English football, the two most decorated clubs in the Premier League go head-to-head at Anfield as bitter rivals Liverpool battle Manchester United. This season's meeting caries extra significance as United has drawn level with Liverpool in equalling their record of 18 League titles. Who will triumph today as 'Rafa the Rotator' squares off against 'Fiery Fergie'?

MONDAY (Oct 26)

Film - Keeping Up With The Steins on Star Movies at 8.30pm.

Benjamin Fiedler (Daryl Sabara) is about to become a man and celebrate the rituals of a Bar Mitzvah. His father Adam (Jeremy Piven) and mother Joanne (Jami Gertz), are determined to send Benjamin into the adult world in style. After seeing the celebration Adam's rival agent, Arnie (Larry Miller), threw for his son, Adam is determined to top that party. But when Adam's father, Irwin (Gary Marshall), rolls into town in a broken-down RV and with his ditzy girlfriend, Sandy (Daryl Hannah), in tow, it looks like his plans to outclass Arnie Stein may have been for naught.

TUESDAY (Oct 27)

Film - Blood Diamond on Super Movies at 11pm.

Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, two men, Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Solomon Vandi (Djimon Hounsou), join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside.







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