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27-02-2009, 09:38 AM
Film4 Listings for Saturday 28th February
13:00
Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (Film)
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as Tom and Kate Baker, parents to 12 kids, in Adam Shankman's sequel to the comedy hit. The kids are now older, and getting ready to leave home, so Tom arranges a final family holiday in rural Wisconsin. Unfortunately, also at the campsite are his rival Jimmy Murtaugh, his trophy wife Sarina and their eight offspring. But despite the two men trying to outdo each other, the two sets of kids become friends, with Sarah Baker and Eliot Murtaugh touching as the two teenagers experiencing first love.
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, Carmen Electra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)
14:50
The Animal (Film)
Rob Schneider plays Marvin Mange, a wannabe cop who just can't make the grade. Until, injured in a car crash, mad scientist Dr Wilder uses animal parts to save his life. Now, he can run like a cheetah, smell drugs like a sniffer dog, swim like a seal and... er... develop an unhealthy interest in a goat. Schneider, an alumunus from Saturday Night Live, delivers the goods in Luke Greenfield's delicious gross-out comedy. Edited for language.
Director: Luke Greenfield
Starring: Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Edward Asner, Michael Caton, Louis Lombardi
(Widescreen, 2001, 12, 2 Star)
16:25
Those Glory Glory Days (Film)
Written by Julie Welch, one of Fleet Street's first woman football writers and directed by Philip Saville, this is Welch's story, opening at her first match. As she's leaving the ground, an Irish voice offers her a lift. It is the immortal Danny Blanchflower and as she gets in the car, so the film goes back to 1961, when Spurs were pursuing the Double and four girls, Julia, Toni, Jailbird and Tub dream of just one thing - tickets to the FA Cup Final.
Director: Philip Saville
Starring: Zoë Nathenson, Sara Sugarman, Cathy Murphy, Liz Campion, Amelia Dipple, Elizabeth Spriggs
(Made For TV, 1983, U, 2 Star)
18:25
I Am Sam (Film)
Oscar-nominated Sean Penn plays Sam Dawson, a cleaner with the mental age of seven. He gets a homeless woman pregnant but she abandons their daughter Lucy. He brings her up but as she grows, her needs outstrip his abilities and Social Services try to separate them. To win her back, Penn manages to persuade hard-nosed lawyer Rita Harrison to take on his case in Jessie Nelson's touching drama. Edited for language.
Director: Jessie Nelson
Starring: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Loretta Devine, Richard Schiff
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 12, 4 Star)
21:00
Along Came A Spider (Film)
World-weary criminal profiler Alex Cross is challenged to a nasty game when a senator's daughter is kidnapped whilst under Secret Service protection. Cross is still bruised from his last assignment and the loss of his partner, but he needs his wits about him ... as this new case is not as it seems.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Anton Yelchin
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)
22:55
Desu nôto (Film)
Shusuke Kaneko's stylish horror film, based on a popular manga, stars Tatsuya Fujiwara as Light Yagami, an idealistic young law student. He comes into possession of a notebook which, he discovers, has the power to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages. First using it to kill those who have escaped the forces of law and order, power soon goes to his head. Egged on by an angel of death, Ryuk, an apple-crunching CGI monster Tim Burton would envy, he begins killing the innocent. On his trail is the enigmatic L, a web ****** hired by the police to track down Light through the avatar he has set up on a site to goad the authorities. The sequel, Death Note: The Last Name, screens on Film4 next week.
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Shigeki Hosokawa, Erika Toda, Shunji Fujimura
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2006, 12, 4 Star)
01:20
The Entity (Film)
Sidney J Furie's horror/thriller, allegedly based on a true story, stars Barbara Hershey as Carla Moran, a divorced mother who becomes the victim of a violent poltergeist which she claims assaulted and even raped her. Dismissed as a repressive hysteric by psychologists, when two parapsychology investigators succeed in photographing her attacker, the next, dangerous step is to isolate and trap it.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes
(Widescreen, 1981, 18, 3 Star)
13:00
Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (Film)
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as Tom and Kate Baker, parents to 12 kids, in Adam Shankman's sequel to the comedy hit. The kids are now older, and getting ready to leave home, so Tom arranges a final family holiday in rural Wisconsin. Unfortunately, also at the campsite are his rival Jimmy Murtaugh, his trophy wife Sarina and their eight offspring. But despite the two men trying to outdo each other, the two sets of kids become friends, with Sarah Baker and Eliot Murtaugh touching as the two teenagers experiencing first love.
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, Carmen Electra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)
14:50
The Animal (Film)
Rob Schneider plays Marvin Mange, a wannabe cop who just can't make the grade. Until, injured in a car crash, mad scientist Dr Wilder uses animal parts to save his life. Now, he can run like a cheetah, smell drugs like a sniffer dog, swim like a seal and... er... develop an unhealthy interest in a goat. Schneider, an alumunus from Saturday Night Live, delivers the goods in Luke Greenfield's delicious gross-out comedy. Edited for language.
Director: Luke Greenfield
Starring: Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Edward Asner, Michael Caton, Louis Lombardi
(Widescreen, 2001, 12, 2 Star)
16:25
Those Glory Glory Days (Film)
Written by Julie Welch, one of Fleet Street's first woman football writers and directed by Philip Saville, this is Welch's story, opening at her first match. As she's leaving the ground, an Irish voice offers her a lift. It is the immortal Danny Blanchflower and as she gets in the car, so the film goes back to 1961, when Spurs were pursuing the Double and four girls, Julia, Toni, Jailbird and Tub dream of just one thing - tickets to the FA Cup Final.
Director: Philip Saville
Starring: Zoë Nathenson, Sara Sugarman, Cathy Murphy, Liz Campion, Amelia Dipple, Elizabeth Spriggs
(Made For TV, 1983, U, 2 Star)
18:25
I Am Sam (Film)
Oscar-nominated Sean Penn plays Sam Dawson, a cleaner with the mental age of seven. He gets a homeless woman pregnant but she abandons their daughter Lucy. He brings her up but as she grows, her needs outstrip his abilities and Social Services try to separate them. To win her back, Penn manages to persuade hard-nosed lawyer Rita Harrison to take on his case in Jessie Nelson's touching drama. Edited for language.
Director: Jessie Nelson
Starring: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Loretta Devine, Richard Schiff
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 12, 4 Star)
21:00
Along Came A Spider (Film)
World-weary criminal profiler Alex Cross is challenged to a nasty game when a senator's daughter is kidnapped whilst under Secret Service protection. Cross is still bruised from his last assignment and the loss of his partner, but he needs his wits about him ... as this new case is not as it seems.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Anton Yelchin
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)
22:55
Desu nôto (Film)
Shusuke Kaneko's stylish horror film, based on a popular manga, stars Tatsuya Fujiwara as Light Yagami, an idealistic young law student. He comes into possession of a notebook which, he discovers, has the power to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages. First using it to kill those who have escaped the forces of law and order, power soon goes to his head. Egged on by an angel of death, Ryuk, an apple-crunching CGI monster Tim Burton would envy, he begins killing the innocent. On his trail is the enigmatic L, a web ****** hired by the police to track down Light through the avatar he has set up on a site to goad the authorities. The sequel, Death Note: The Last Name, screens on Film4 next week.
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Shigeki Hosokawa, Erika Toda, Shunji Fujimura
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2006, 12, 4 Star)
01:20
The Entity (Film)
Sidney J Furie's horror/thriller, allegedly based on a true story, stars Barbara Hershey as Carla Moran, a divorced mother who becomes the victim of a violent poltergeist which she claims assaulted and even raped her. Dismissed as a repressive hysteric by psychologists, when two parapsychology investigators succeed in photographing her attacker, the next, dangerous step is to isolate and trap it.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes
(Widescreen, 1981, 18, 3 Star)