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March 24 - 30, 2010
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WEDNESDAY (Mar 24) Film - World's Greatest Dad on SuperMovies at 9pm

Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreamed of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as a high school poetry teacher. Then, in the wake of the tragic death of his son, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of all the fame, fortune and popularity he ever dreamed of, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.

THURSDAY (Mar 25)

Film - Race to Witch Mountain on Super Movies at 9pm

This is the story of two alien visitors whose search for their spacecraft gets them caught up in an adventure with cab driver, Jack Bruno (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) and a UFO specialist, Dr Alex Friedman (Carla Gugino). As the group races toward the mysterious mountain in the Nevada desert, the government, gangsters, and an extraterrestrial bounty hunter attempt to prevent them from reaching their intended destination.

FRIDAY (Mar 26)

Film - Watchmen on ShowMovies at 8pm.

Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes.

SATURDAY (Mar 27)

Film - The Least of These on ShowMovies Action at 9pm.

Andre James (Isaiah Washington) is a priest with a troubled past who returns to his old Catholic boarding school to replace another priest who has disappeared, but he begins to suspect that the missing priest may have been murdered by someone at the school. As he sets out to find out who killed his former colleague, he comes across a darker secret while being forced to confront his own troubled past.

SUNDAY (Mar 28)

Film - Multiple Sarcasms on ShowMovies at 8pm.

A drama about self discovery leavened by humour and irony, Multiple Sarcasms follows Gabriel Richmond (Timothy Hutton) as he takes an unconventional path to shedding his life of convention by writing a play. As the play becomes about his life, the process proves both disruptive and healing for him as well as his close knit group of family and friends. Drawn into Gabriel's turmoil, his wife Cari (Mira Sorvino), best friends and business partner begin re-examining their own lives and relationships with him.

MONDAY (Mar 29)

Film - Primo Basilico on Cinema City at 9pm.

Luisa (Debora Falabella) is a romantic, dreamy young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and economic conditions. They didn't know each other well when they married but Luisa was a good wife. Everything changes when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basilio. What seemed to be a great adventure soon becomes a nightmare and Luisa will discover a high price to pay for her infidelity.

WEDNESDAY (Mar 30)

Film - Charlotte Gray on Cinema City at 9pm.

Charlotte (Cate Blanchett) is a young Scottish woman, who studied in France but lives in London during the Second World War. In short succession, she both falls in love with a young pilot and is recruited by the Secret Service for the French Resistance. Her mission behind enemy lines becomes a personal one however when she is determined to find her love, who has been shot down by enemy fire. Assigned to a Communist Resistance group she encounters acts of betrayal from sometimes unexpected sources.







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