[Submitted via press release]
M-NET HIGHLIGHTS: AUGUST 2012
Please note: This line-up is subject to change.
MONDAY PREMIERES
ROGUE Monday 06 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed by Greg Mclean. Starring Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell and Sam Worthington (2007)
Pete is an American travel writer reporting on the booming tourist industry in the Northern Territory. While taking a river cruise, he meets a series of people, including Kate, a local tour guide, whom he feels attracted to.
When their boat is rammed by something down below, they are stranded on a tiny island and slowly begin to realise that they are being stalked by a giant saltwater crocodile. It is the beginning of a struggle for their survival.
COLD MOUNTAIN Monday 13 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Anthony Minghella. Starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger (2003)
Inman is a Civil War Confederate soldier, who is seriously wounded in battle before heading home to North Carolina to his pre-war beloved Ada.
During his absence, Ada and a young drifter named Ruby desperately tried to hold onto the farm. Inman's long journey home takes him through the crumbling confederacy as he meets people of all walks of life who want to both aid and hinder his mission.
KINGS RANSOM Monday 20 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Jeffrey W. Byrd. Starring Anthony Anderson, Kellita Smith and Jay Mohr (2005)
A successful and wealthy businessman, Malcolm, has made more than his share of enemies over the years, including his soon-to-be ex-wife and his overworked and under-appreciated employees.
Not wanting to go through a messy and expensive divorce played out in the media, Malcolm devises a plan to save his money from his wife's eager hands.
Along with the help of his mistress Peaches, Malcolm plots his own kidnapping, in order to secure a fictitious ransom so extremely high that once paid, the public will think he's broke and unable to meet his wife's financial demands. But unbeknownst to Malcolm, he's not the only one with a kidnapping plan.
MESSAGES DELETED Monday 27 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Rob Cowan. Starring Matthew Lillard, Deborah Kara Unger and Gina Holden (2009)
When a screenwriting teacher sells a plot for a student who is out for revenge, this forces him to live out the plot from the stolen screenplay.
TUESDAY PREMIERES
FEAR ISLAND Tuesday 07 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Michael Storey. Starring Aaron Ashmore, Haylie Duff and Lucy Hale (2009)
It's Spring Break, so five friends get together on a secluded island to enjoy a weekend together, joined by a young stowaway Megan and the island's caretaker Keith.
However, the party turns into a nightmare the next morning when they find the caretaker's body with ‘evil’ written across his chest in blood and the boat has disappeared from the docks. Will they survive with a killer on the island and no means of escape?
THE GOOD THIEF Tuesday 14 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Neil Jordan. Starring Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze and Ouassini Embarek (2002)
Bob Montagnet is an American gambler and thief, who ended up in the South of France out of luck and out of money. But he is also a heroin addict. Bob is gambling in an illegal joint run by Remi, a local pimp. He is losing as he has been for months.
In his heroin-induced haze, he meets Anne a young Eastern European girl. Bob is taken by her beauty and in particular her lucky eyes. When the place is raided by the police, Bob saves the life of Roger, the detective. We soon realise the two men are oddly united by a special bond stretching back years.
SECOND NATURETuesday 21 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Wayne Kramer. Starring Paul Walker, Cameron Bright and Chazz Palminteri (2006)
Joey Gazelle is a gangster with weapons stashed in his loft, lives next door to Anzor, a drug-addicted psychopath with links to the Russian mob. Joey's problems begin when Oleg, Anzor's step-son and friend of Joey's son tries to kill his step-father with a gun stolen from Joey.
THE PROTECTOR (TO BE CONFIRMED)Tuesday 28 August 2012 at 20:00
WEDNESDAY PREMIERES
KISS OF DEATH Wednesday 01 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Barbet Schroeder. Starring David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson and Nicolas Cage (1995)
Jimmy Kilmartin, a reformed car thief, agrees to go on one last truck-stealing job. He is caught by the police and takes the rap for the wounding of a police officer, although he didn't do it.
While Jimmy is in prison, his cousin Ronny causes the death of Jimmy's wife. Jimmy organises a deal with the police which sets Ronny up and gets him murdered by Little Junior.
When Jimmy is released from prison he is forced to work as an informer for the police. But Little Junior finds out and Jimmy and his new wife's lives are endangered...
THE CORE (TO BE CONFIRMED)Wednesday 08 August 2012 at 20:30
TALENTED MR RIPLEYWednesday 15 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Anthony Minghella. Starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law (1998)
Tom Ripley is a young man from New York who is asked by a tycoon, Herbert Greenleaf, to bring his son, Dickie, home from Europe, where he has been spending his substantial allowance rather too quickly.
Tom quickly becomes used to the high-living frivolous lifestyle that Dickie and his girlfriend entertain, but sooner or later the situation has to change, particularly when Herbert Greenleaf stops the supply of funds to his son.
ALBINO ALLIGATOR Wednesday 22 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Kevin Spacey. Starring Matt Dillon, Faye Dunaway and Gary Sinise (1996)
Milo, Dova and Law carry out a heist which involves a shoot-out and in which a federal agent gets run over. Milo is injured and the three stop at a bar to clean him up but then find they are surrounded by police marksmen.
THE LOOKOUT Wednesday 29 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Scott Frank. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels and Matthew Goode (2007)
After an accident leaves him mentally disabled, a caretaker takes part in a robbery on the bank that employs him.
THURSDAY PREMIERES
THE FOUR FEATHERS Thursday 02 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Shekhar Kapur. Starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley and Kate Hudson (2002)
Set in Britain and the war-torn Sudan in 1884. To his lifelong friends, Harry appeared to have it all. He was a young Lieutenant in the world's most powerful army, engaged to a beautiful woman, and the son of a celebrated General - until the day his regiment was called up for battle in Northern Africa, and he abruptly resigned.
In this moment of fear, he lost everything - except four feathers of shame given to him by his friends. The only way to redeem himself is to assume a new identity, travel across a continent, face a danger he cannot escape and find the man he was meant to be.
A DIRTY SHAME Thursday 09 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By John Waters. Starring Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak and Selma Blair (2004)
Sylvia is an uptight, middle-aged, repressed woman. She lives a prudish life on Harford Road, until she is hit by a car and the knock to her head turns her into a sex addict.
HANSIE: A TRUE STORYThursday 16 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Regardt van den Bergh. Starring Brandon Auret, Alistair Moulton Black and Ricky Botsis (2008)
How do you start anew once you've betrayed a nation's trust?
Hansie Cronjé became South Africa's golden boy. As captain, he took his country's cricket side from being seventh best in the world to the top.
BRAVO TWO ZERO Thursday 23 August 2012 at 20:30
Directed By Tom Clegg. Starring Sean Bean, Steve Nicolson and Rick Warden (1999)
An eight-man British SAS patrol team is sent deep into Iraqi territory at the height of the Gulf War.
THE DEAD WILL TELL (TO BE CONFIRMED)Thursday 30 August 2012 at 20:30
SATURDAY PREMIERES
HERO (YING XIONG)Saturday 04 August 2012 at 20:00
Directed By Yimou Zhang. Starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung (2002)
With the country divided into seven kingdoms, the king of Qin wants to conquer and unite the whole region with himself as emperor. But first he must overcome three opponents who are trying to kill him.
DERAILED Saturday 11 August 2012 at 20:00
Directed By Mikael Håfström. Starring Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston and Vincent Cassel (2005)
Commercials director, Charles, meets business executive Lucinda on the train into Chicago. One morning, he forgets his wallet and she offers to pay for his ticket.
Though both are married, they start having an affair but when they book into a hotel one night, they find themselves on the wrong side of an obsessive and violent criminal.
INDECENT PROPOSAL Saturday 18 August 2012 at 20:00
Directed By Adrian Lyne. Starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson (1993)
A struggling couple is offered $1,000,000 to let another man sleep with the wife.
THE BANK JOB Saturday 25 August 2012 at 20:00
Directed By Roger Donaldson. Starring Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows and Stephen Campbell Moore (2008)
The story of the 1971 Baker Street robbery, in which a gang of thieves tunnelled into a bank and looted the contents of safety deposit boxes, including over three million pounds worth of cash and jewellery.
SUNDAY PREMIERES
THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER Sunday 05 August 2012 at 20:00
Directed By Simon West. Starring John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe and James Cromwell (1999)
An Army investigator, Paul Brenner, finds himself teaming up with his former lover, Sarah Sunhill, another investigator, when he is asked to solve the mysterious murder of Captain Elisabeth Campbell.
As the two investigate further they uncover some unsavoury facts regarding the dead girl's lifestyle. Brenner is in addition informed he has only 36 hours to find the killer before the FBI take over the case and the scandal moves into the public domain.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Sunday 12 August 2012 at 20:00
Directed By Bruce Beresford. Starring Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones and Bruce Greenwood (1999)
Libby Parsons is a young woman seemingly happily married with a young child. However, when she finds herself at the centre of a `frame-up' designed to make her look like the murderer of her own husband - although there is no body to be found - she realises that she can gain revenge on her errant spouse by actually killing him - since she cannot be retried for the crime.
THE ITALIAN JOB Sunday 19 August 2012 at 20:00
Directed By F. Gary Gray. Starring Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg and Edward Norton (2003)
Get ready for the mother of all traffic jams as a gang of Mini-driving gold thieves set out to steal back a consignment of gold.
FOUR BROTHERS Sunday 26 August 2012 at 20:00
Directed By John Singleton. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson and Garrett Hedlund (2005)
Four adopted brothers reunite for their mother's funeral and resolve to avenge her murder in a convenience store hold-up.