FOR THIS WEEK’S MOVIES ON SBS, SBS VICELAND & NITV
- Audio Description (AD) available for The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Producers, A Little Chaos, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Stand by Me, Hearts Beat Loud, Joyride, Corpse Bride, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Last Word
- Closed Captions (CC) available for The Fabulous Baker Boys, A Little Chaos, Stand by Me, Nowhere Boy, Sex, Lies and Videotape and Fantastic Mr. Fox
WEDNESDAY 17 MAY
The Fabulous Baker Boys
7:30pm
M, AD, CC
USA, 1988
Genre: Music, Drama, Romance
Language: English
Director: Steve Kloves
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, Ellie Raab
What’s it about?
Frank (Bridges) and Jack Baker (Bridges) are brothers who have performed together in a small but successful piano act for years. However, their lack of ambition hurts them – they begin losing gigs, and are soon relegated to run-down venues. Attempting to infuse new life into their act, the brothers hire singer Susie Diamond (Pfeiffer). The new line-up brings success, but tensions mount as romance blossoms and one brother is left in the cold. Nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Actress for Pfeiffer).
The Producers
9:35pm
M, AD
USA, 2005
Genre: Comedy
Language: English
Director: Susan Stroman
Starring: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Roger Bart
What’s it about?
Failing producer Max Bialystock (Lane) and his accountant, Leo Bloom (Broderick) scam a group of elderly women out of their nest eggs by convincing them to invest in a horrendously offensive Third Reich-themed musical secretly intended to bomb the moment it opens. But when high-brow Broadway audiences mistakenly assume “Springtime for Hitler” is a satire, Bialystock finds himself with the critical acclaim that has long eluded him – and the biggest hit of his career. Based on the 1968 Mel Brooks classic of the same name.
THURSDAY 18 MAY
A Little Chaos
7:30pm
M, AD, CC
UK, 2014
Genre: Drama, Romance
Language: English
Director: Alan Rickman
Starring: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jennifer Ehle
What’s it about?
The world’s greatest landscape architect, Le Notre (Schoenaerts) – designer of the Versailles gardens – is unfulfilled in love. Madame Sabine de Bara (Winslet) is pioneering and fiercely independent – her visionary ideas for design seem anarchic to King Louis’ (Rickman) formal court. It takes a little chaos for nature to blossom and love to heal and ignite.
Jersey Boys
9:40pm
MA15+
USA, 2014
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Language: English
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Francesca Eastwood, Christopher Walken, Freya Tingley, Ashely Leilani
What’s it about?
From Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, telling the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the legendary 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
FRIDAY 19 MAY
The Man Who Invented Christmas
5:55pm
PG, AD
Ireland, Canada, 2017
Genre: Drama, History, Comedy
Language: English
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Starring: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Justin Edwards
What’s it about?
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens (Stevens) is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man (Plummer), so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Stand by Me
7:50pm
M, AD, CC
USA, 1986
Genre: Crime, Drama
Language: English
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Jerry O’Connell, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland
What’s it about?
In a treehouse at the edge of Castle Rock, a small Oregon town, budding 12-year-old writer Gordie (Wheaton) is about to begin an extraordinary trek into the heart of the northwestern forest. His best friend Vern (O’Connell) has overheard his older brother and a friend talking about their discovery of a dead body in the woods. Hoping they can get credit for finding the body, Gordie sets off with insecure, frightened Vern, tough guy Chris (Phoenix) and daredevil Teddy (Feldman) on an adventure that becomes an odyssey of self-discovery. This coming-of-age classic is based on the novella “The Body” by Stephen King.
Nowhere Boy
9:30pm
M, CC
UK, 2010
Genre: Music, Drama, Biography
Language: English
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff
What’s it about?
A chronicle of John Lennon’s first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi (Scott-Thomas), who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his adolescent years. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Lennon, and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey).
SATURDAY 20 MAY
Hearts Beat Loud
6:40pm
M, AD
USA, 2018
Genre: Drama, Music, Comedy, Family
Language: English
Director: Brett Haley
Starring: Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Ted Danson, Sasha Lane, Blythe Danner, Toni Collette
What’s it about?
In the hip Brooklyn neighbourhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank (Offerman) is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam (Clemons) off to college while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical passions, Frank urges Sam to turn their weekly jam sessions into a father-daughter live act. After their first song becomes an internet breakout, the two embark on a journey of love, growing up and musical discovery.
Joyride
8:30pm
M, AD
Ireland, 2022
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Language: English
Director: Emer Reynolds
Starring: Olivia Colman, Charlie Reid, Lochlann O’Mearáin, Olwen Fouéré, Florence Adebambo
What’s it about?
12-year-old Mully (Reid) has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they’ve raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy (Colman), in the back seat with a baby. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.
Sex, Lies and Videotape
10:20pm
M, CC
USA, 1989
Genre: Cult, Drama
Language: English
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: James Spader, Laura San Giacomo, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher
What’s it about?
The story of Graham (Spader), a long-lost college friend who drifts back into town, and a look into the lives of philanderer John (Gallagher), his wife Ann (MacDowell), and her sister Cynthia (San Giacomo). One by one, each is drawn into the very personal project Graham is working on, leaving the relationships between them forever transformed. This landmark American indie film was the debut feature for director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich, The Knick) and won the Palme D’or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
SUNDAY 21 MAY
Corpse Bride
7:05pm
PG, AD
USA, 2005
Genre: Animation/3D, Comedy, Fantasy
Language: English
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Joanna Lumley, Tracey Ullman, Emily Watson
What’s it about?
This Tim Burton-directed stop-motion animation presents a legend based on a 19th-century Russian folktale, in which a young man (voiced by Depp) mistakenly weds a corpse (Carter) while on a two-day trek to the village of his real bride-to-be. It is up to the groom’s flesh-and-blood fiancée (Watson), who has been pining for the arrival of her intended, to face her wraith-like rival and make peace with her by promising to live her dreams for her and by vowing to remember her always.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
8:30pm
PG, AD, CC
USA, 2009
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Adventure
Language: English
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep, George Clooney
What’s it about?
Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash and visiting nephew Kristopherson. That is until Mr. Fox slips into his sneaky, old ways and plots the greatest chicken heist the animal world has ever seen. Based on the beloved book by Roald Dahl and written and directed by Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel).
The Last Word
10:10pm
M, AD
USA, 2017
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Language: English
Director: Mark Pellington
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Heche, Thomas Sadoski, Philip Baker Hall
What’s it about?
A retired businesswoman (MacLaine) – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist (Seyfried) takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
MONDAY 22 MAY
The Gilded Cage
7:50pm
M
France, 2013
Genre: Comedy
Language: French, Portuguese
Director: Ruben Alves
Starring: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Chantal Lauby, Roland Giraud
What’s it about?
Portuguese immigrants, Maria (Blanco) and José (de Almeida) have lived in Paris for 30 years raising their now adult daughter and teenage son. Returning to Portugal is now possible, but they struggle with how to tell those around them. When word of the big news spreads, their family, neighbours, friends and employers are scrambling behind the scenes to find ways to prevent them from leaving.
Cop Secret
9:30pm
MA15+
Iceland, 2022
Genre: Comedy, Action, Thriller
Language: Icelandic, English, Spanish
Director: Hannes Þór Halldórsson
Starring: Auðunn Blöndal, Egill Einarsson, Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir
What’s it about?
Iceland’s toughest cop (Blöndal) will stop at nothing to solve a string of violent bank robberies. However, when he’s forced to take on a new partner, the pressures of cracking the case prove too much for the tough-as-nails renegade. Winner of the Best Feature Film Debut prize at the Nordic Film Days Lubeck film festival.
TUESDAY 23 MAY
The Medallion
7:55pm
M
Hong Kong, USA, 2003
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Action
Language: English
Director: Gordon Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Julian Sands, Claire Forlani, Lee Evans
What’s it about?
Chan plays Eddie Yang, a Hong Kong cop who suffers a near fatal accident while investigating a case involving a mysterious medallion. Eddie soon discovers that with the powerful medallion in his possession, he gains incredible speed, strength and skills, taking his martial arts abilities to awe-inspiring heights.
Three
9:30pm
MA15+
China, Hong Kong, 2016
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Language: Mandarin, English, Cantonese
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Zhao Wei, Wallace Chung, Louis Koo, Lo Hoi-Pang, Eddie Cheung, Lam Suet
What’s it about?
Realising that he will be defeated in no time during a police showdown, a thug shoots himself to force the cops to cease fire and take him to the hospital. In the hospital, he claims human rights to refuse immediate treatment in order to buy time for his underlings to rescue him. The detective in charge sees through his scheme but decides to play along so as to capture his whole gang once and for all. From acclaimed director Johnnie To (Election, Exiled, Drug War).
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