
Encore Drama (Pacific) TV Schedule
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Time Show -
- 1:05pm
Prince of Central ParkA youngster decides he's had enough of his cruel stepmother's bullying ways and flees to Central Park - where he sets up camp and makes a host of new friends. Family adventure, starring Harvey Keitel, Frank Nasso, Kathleen Turner and Danny Aiello
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- 3:00pm
The Human StainA highly respected professor is forced to resign when some of his comments are misinterpreted as a racist slur. His reputation suffers further when his affair with a younger married woman is exposed and creates a scandal. However, his greatest struggle is to keep a life-long secret from becoming public. Drama, adapted from the novel by Philip Roth, and starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise
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- 4:50pm
Faubourg 36French drama starring Gérard Jugnot.
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- 6:55pm
Lightning in a BottleAntoine Fuqua's documentary on the history of blues music, capturing the excitement of a special concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall, where many of the genre's biggest names - including BB King, Bonnie Raitt and Macy Gray - performed under one roof. Featuring interviews with Solomon Burke, Buddy Guy, Honeyboy Edwards, Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown and Vernon Reid.
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- 8:50pm
PhiladelphiaTom Hanks gives a powerful performance to win the first of his two Oscars in this often harrowing and highly emotional drama. He plays a gay lawyer fighting to prove his employers discriminated against him because he has Aids. Denzel Washington is the homophobic former courtroom opponent to whom Hanks turns for help in suing his bosses, with Antonio Banderas as his long-time lover. Directed by Jonathan Demme, and co-starring Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen and Joanne Woodward
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- 11:00pm
The Human StainA highly respected professor is forced to resign when some of his comments are misinterpreted as a racist slur. His reputation suffers further when his affair with a younger married woman is exposed and creates a scandal. However, his greatest struggle is to keep a life-long secret from becoming public. Drama, adapted from the novel by Philip Roth, and starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise