Sony Movie Channel HD TV Schedule
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Time Show -
- 12:25am
Modern LoveA publicist and his urologist get married and have a baby, but their family life lurches farcically from one domestic crisis to another. His baby cries whenever he enters the room, his mother-in-law meddles, and as the last straw he is forced to chaperone a gormless TV star - whom his family simply adore. Comedy drama, with Robby Benson, Karla DeVito, Burt Reynolds, and Rue McClanahan
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- 2:20am
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The Runaways
Kristen Stewart stars as '70s icon Joan Jett, documenting the journey of the band The Runaways. Dakota Fanning and Tatum O'Neal also star
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- 4:10am
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Jackie Chan's Drunken Master
An undisciplined young man is sent to live with his uncle, but ends up falling foul of a kung fu master and his pupils. Badly beaten, he receives training from his uncle in a powerful martial art - but to fight using this method, he has to be hopelessly drunk. Martial arts comedy adventure, starring Jackie Chan and Siu Tien Yuen. In Cantonese
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- 5:55am
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Radio Flyer
Two brothers try to escape their abusive alcoholic stepfather by building a flying machine and travelling to the safety of a fantasy world. Emotional family drama, starring Elijah Wood, Adam Baldwin and Lorraine Bracco
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- 7:55am
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The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
The pigtailed heroine takes shelter in a little coastal town after she is cast ashore during a storm while sailing with her father. Here she makes friends with two local children, who join her in all sorts of escapades as she tries to avoid being sent to an orphanage. Family adventure based on the books by Astrid Lindgren, starring Tami Erin, David Seaman Jr, Cory Crow and Eileen Brennan
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- 9:45am
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What Makes a Family
A bereaved woman faces a battle to change Florida's legal system so it recognises the rights of gay couples, enabling her to keep custody of her lesbian partner's child. Fact-based drama, starring Brooke Shields, Whoopi Goldberg, Cherry Jones, Anne Meara and Al Waxman
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- 11:20am
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Agnes of God
Muddled thriller saved by a fine cast. Jane Fonda takes top billing as a psychiatrist who heads for a convent to probe the murder of a newborn baby. It seems the infant was the child of a novice nun, who soon comes under suspicion of strangling her child. But the case is far from straightforward, and it's not long before the doctor realises something strange is going on. Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly and Winston Rekert also star
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- 1:05pm
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White Nights
A Soviet ballet star who has defected to the West is forced to return to his home country when a plane he is travelling on is forced to land in Russia. The KGB are determined to make him stay, but he resolves to escape, enlisting the aid of an American tap dancer who defected in the opposite direction, but has become disillusioned with his new home. Good-looking drama, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines and Helen Mirren
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- 3:30pm
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I Love You to Death
Misfiring black comedy based on a true story about a woman who decides to bump off her pizzeria-owning, Italian-American husband in revenge for his numerous infidelities. Unfortunately, a host of OTT performances from the cast leave it foundering. Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves and William Hurt star.
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- 5:15pm
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Circus
A small-time Brighton con-man plans one last job before quitting the world of crime and starting a new life in Cuba, but unfortunately it entails killing a mobster's wife. Creaking thriller with director Rob Walker attempting to ape Quentin Tarantino - and making a complete mess of it. The ill-judged cast includes John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Brian Conley and Amanda Donohoe
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- 7:00pm
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Withnail and I
Superb, inspired black comedy boasting a devoted fan base. It follows the misadventures of two unemployed, drug-addled and alcohol-sodden actors who flee their seedy London flat and embark on a disastrous holiday in the Lake District. Richard E Grant and Paul McGann star in the title roles, with Richard Griffiths as Withnail's outrageous Uncle Monty and Ralph Brown as Danny the dealer. Written and directed by Bruce Robinson
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- 8:55pm
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Stars and Bars
A naive English art expert is sent to America to buy a valuable Renoir painting from an eccentric, but soon gets tangled up in all manner of trouble. Culture-clash comedy, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Martha Plimpton and Harry Dean Stanton
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- 10:40pm
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Withnail and I
Superb, inspired black comedy boasting a devoted fan base. It follows the misadventures of two unemployed, drug-addled and alcohol-sodden actors who flee their seedy London flat and embark on a disastrous holiday in the Lake District. Richard E Grant and Paul McGann star in the title roles, with Richard Griffiths as Withnail's outrageous Uncle Monty and Ralph Brown as Danny the dealer. Written and directed by Bruce Robinson