2005 November HDnet / HDnet Movies Highlights

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Blind Justice
Leap of Faith
Dunbar revisits an old case when they investigate a young male who fell through his apartment window to his death. Dunbar is suspicious of the new man in Bettancourt's life.
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10:00 PM ET
7:00 PM PT Natural Born Killers
R - 1:58 - 1994
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Ed White, Director: Oliver Stone
Social satire about the media's infatuation with criminals, focusing on lovestruck serial killers who become the tabloid's "hot" frontpage news.​

 

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
What's Kewl at CEDIA 2005
Take a tour of the "kewlest" new electronics gear at this year's Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) show.

10:30 PM ET / 7:30 PM PT * LIVE! *
NHL on HDNet
Vancouver Canucks @ Los Angeles Kings
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[Sean Mota]

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8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT * Premiere *
Get Out!
Woodhill Forest, New Zealand
Head for the hills of New Zealand with the Get Out! girls as they hit the forest trails in search of some off-road adventure and experience the beautiful coastal sand dunes of Muriwai Beach.

9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Art Mann Presents...
The Top Three Things You Need to Do Before You Die
This is the kind of information that you need. The Playboy Mansion is the location to countdown these three must-do's. Special Guest Hugh Hefner.

9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT * Premiere *
HDNet Boxing
>From Turning Stone Casino, New York
An exciting night of Boxing featuring a 10 round Welterweight Main Event, Joshua Clottey 27-1 vs Marlon Thomas 35-5-1. Undercard includes the NABA Interim Welterweight Championship between Chris Smith and Tomas Barrientes.
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[Sean Mota]

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12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT * LIVE! *
College Football
Harvard Crimson @ Yale Bulldogs Pre-Game Show

12:30 PM ET / 9:30 AM PT * LIVE! *
College Football
Harvard Crimson @ Yale Bulldogs

10:30 PM ET / 7:30 PM PT * LIVE! *
NHL on HDNet
Colorado Avalanche @ Los Angeles Kings
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8:00 PM ET
5:00 PM PT The Untouchables
R - 1:59 - 1987 ***PREMIERE****
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Director: Brian De Palma
Federal Marshall Eliot Ness is out to get Al Capone, the tax-evading mayor of prohibition-era Chicago. When Capone fights back, Ness is forced to call for reinforcements.


10:00 PM ET
7:00 PM PT Windtalkers
R - 2:14 - 2002 ***PREMIERE****
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Director: John Woo
A World War II marine is assigned to protect a Navaho Native American recruited by the marines to use his language as an indecipherable code.​

 

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
True Music
Default, John Hiatt, Son Volt
This week on True Music, our host Katie Daryl will be talking with the platinum selling band Default. Plus, guitar legend John Hiatt will be hanging out, as well as Son Volt!
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8:15 PM ET
5:15 PM PT Rebel Without A Cause
NR - 1:50 - 1956 ***PREMIERE***
Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Director: Nicholas Ray
In the second of his three films, James Dean finds common ground with two outcasts in a police station after being alienated from his family and friends.

10:05 PM ET
7:05 PM PT Mutiny on the Bounty
NR - 2:59 - 1962 ***PREMIERE***
Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Director: Lewis Milestone
Remake of the 1935 film based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, which tells the account of the 1789 mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against Captain Blight of the Bounty.​

 

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Smallville
Bound
After Lex is accused of killing a young woman, Clark sets out to prove his innocence and asks an unlikely source for help--Lionel.

9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Summerland
Secrets
Ava becomes increasingly worried about Bradin's relationship with his wild girlfriend Sarah. Even Bradin contemplates breaking up with her, but finds it harder to do than he expected.

10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Higher Definition
Harold Ramis
Pop-culture critic Robert Wilonsky sits down with director Harold Ramis, acclaimed writer of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, to talk about his new film The Ice Harvest starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton.
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[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
HDNet World Report
The Far East - Evaluating Economic Bedfellows
World Report cameras are in the Far East, stopping in both China and Singapore. Singapore has been relatively authoritarian in dealing with its citizens, while China has been relatively repressive. Now, both nations are standing more firmly on the stage of international commerce, evaluating their next moves.

9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Debate
Abortion
Should abortion remain legal? How will changes in the justices on the Supreme Court affect efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade? Guests include Kate Michelman, President Emeritus, NARAL Prochoice America vs. Wendy Wright, Senior Policy Director, Concerned Women for America.

9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT * Premiere *
Deadline!
This week's unique news and events like you have never seen them before.

10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone
Rick Pitino
Arguably the best mind in basketball, Rick Pitino sits down with Roy Firestone for a candid and free-flowing discussion of the game and the life surrounding the game. Covering a 20-year span Rick Pitino has amassed a 449 â?" 159 record coaching in both the NBA and at the Collegiate level. He took the 1995 â?"'96 Kentucky Wildcats to the NCAA Championship. Last year, Pitino took the job at Louisville and led the Cardinals to a Conference USA Championship and a birth in the Final Four.
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8:00 PM ET
5:00 PM PT Owning Mahowny
R - 1:45 - 2003 **PREMIERE**
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin, Director: Richard Kwietniowski
A gambling-obsessed bank manager in Toronto rigs bank funds to support his vise.

5:15 AM ET
2:15 AM PT Martin & Orloff
NR - 1:27 - 2003
Cast: Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, Jon Benjamin, Director: Lawrence Blume
Tortured by feelings of guilt after the death of an actor who drowned wearing one of his promotional costume creations, a young man turns to a shrink with dubious credentials and an even more malleable notion of sanity.

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[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Blind Justice
Past Imperfect
The detectives are forced to help the Mayor's untrustworthy friend in a custody dispute. Jim gets a visit from an old friend whom he served with in the Gulf War.
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[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * LIVE! *
NHL on HDNet
Los Angeles Kings @ Nashville Predators
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8:10 PM ET
5:10 PM PT Open Range
R - 2:19 - 2003 ***PREMIERE***
Cast: Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening, Director: Kevin Costner
Four cattleherders are threatened by a corrupt town marshal and a local rancher while freegrazing their cattle on the prairie. When one of the cattleherders is beaten by the rancher's men and jailed for starting the fight, they get ready for the impending shootout.​

 

[Sean Mota]

Life As A House 3.5 stars out of 5. A very good movie with Kevin Klein. The whole movie point is about broken relations and how one father amended them before he past away. Excellent acting and excellent topic!

 

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Greg the Bunny
Welcome to Sweetknuckle Junction
Sock puppet Greg the Bunny lucks into a job starring on his favorite TV series.

8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT * Premiere *
Get Out!
Stradbroke Island, Australia
Travel down under to the land of "Oz" with Lindsay and Camille as they have some fun in the sun, carve up the beach on sand boards and take in the sumptuous sights of the South Pacific.

9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT * Premiere *
HDNet Boxing
Knockout Special!
An unbelievable showcase of the biggest punches ever seen on HDNet. Go ringside with the most powerful and fearsome fighters including Jaidon "The Don" Codrington, Edgar "El Chamaco" Santana and Curtis "Showtime" Stevens. A must see for fight fans.
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[Sean Mota]

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4:30 PM ET / 1:30 PM PT * LIVE! *
College Basketball
The Wooden Tradition
Purdue vs. Xavier

7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT * LIVE! *
College Basketball
The Wooden Tradition
Notre Dame vs. NC State

10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT * LIVE! *
NHL on HDNet
Vancouver Canucks @ Phoenix Coyotes
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8:00 PM ET
5:00 PM PT Shakespeare in Love
R - 2:02 - 1998 **PREMIERE**
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Director: John Madden
William Shakespeare has writer's block and owes a bankrupt theatre manager a new play. He finds inspiration and love in the wealthy Viola De Lesseps, who disguises herself as a boy in order to get on stage. Winner of Seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.​

 

[Sean Mota]

Open Range 3.5 stars out of 5. Very good western tale of a bullit trying to gain territory and cattle. The violence and gunshots makes you go wow! Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall are excellent. In the beginning it is kind of slow but then it picks up and one is stuck to the TV.

 

[dfergie]

Open Range 3.5 stars out of 5. Very good western tale of a bullit trying to gain territory and cattle. The violence and gunshots makes you go wow! Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall are excellent. In the beginning it is kind of slow but then it picks up and one is stuck to the TV.

I watched the dvd, have not gotten to this yet on my 921, but I really enjoyed it...

 

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
True Music
O.A.R.
Today we've got an excellent True Music Extended Play lined up for you! 30 minutes dedicated to the funk-jam-rock band O.A.R. Katie Daryl talks to the band and then they perform some new songs from their recent album Stories of a Stranger.

8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT * Premiere *
Sound Off with Matt Pinfield
Ian Anderson
Matt sits down with Ian Anderson, lead singer of the classic rock legends, Jethro Tull. Their mix of hard rock, folk melodies, blues licks, surreal lyrics and most of all, a lead singer/flautist, didn't seem to dissuade fans from giving them 11 gold and platinum albums. No record store in the country would want to be without multiple copies of their most popular albums, Aqualung, Benefit, Thick As A Brick, Living In The Past, etc. With a career spanning over 30 years, Ian reminisces about everyone from Eric Clapton to Emerson Lake & Palmer. A walk through rock history that shouldn't be missed!

9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Son Volt Live - Okemah & the Melody of Riot
Straight off their critically acclaimed album, Okemah & The Melody of Riot, the forefathers of Alternative Country perform live at the Orange Peel in Ashville, North Carolina. The sold-out audience witnesses exclusive performances of "Afterglow 61", "Jet Pilot" and "Bandages and Scars". Lead singer, Jay Farrar gives nods to everyone from Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to John Fogerty and Neil Young. An intimate performance captured from a band that still matters.

10:30 PM ET / 7:30 PM PT * Premiere *
Gilley's - Behind the Bull
Ty Herndon
On this episode of Gilley's - Behind the Bull: Ty Herndon. Ty soared to instant success as his first single, "What Mattered Most," broke the record for highest debut release and soon topped the Billboard and Radio & Record's charts. A don't miss episode of Gilley's - Behind the Bull.
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8:00 PM ET
5:00 PM PT The Apartment
NR - 2:05 - 1960 * Premiere *
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Director: Billy Wilder
An insurance clerk tries to climb the company ladder by loaning his apartment to executives having affairs. Problems arise when he falls for the sweet elevator operator, who is the most recent affair of his boss.

10:05 PM ET
7:05 PM PT What's Up, Doc?
G - 1:33 - 1972 * Premiere *
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Director: Peter Bogdanovich
A shy midwestern musicologist meets an eccentric woman while in San Francisco for a convention with his fiance. Bogdanovich's homage to 1930s screwball comedies.​

 

[Sean Mota]

Owning Mahowny 3.0 stars out of 5. Great movie. Mahowny = how many backwards. Based on a true story of a gambler who gambles on everthing and anything while defrauding a bank. The guy is very smart and covers up the fraud but it is caught later on when he loses everything.

 

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Smallville
Scare
A secret experiment that Lex is conducting at LuthorCorp goes terribly awry and causes the release of a dangerous toxin into the air.

9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Summerland
Skipping School
Ava thinks that it may be in Nikki's best interest to skip her last year of junior high and go straight to high school, but Nikki has a different opinion.

10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Higher Definition
Joe Wright
Pop-culture critic Robert Wilonsky talks with director Joe Wright about his remake of the Jane Austen classic Pride & Predjudice, starring Keira Knightley.
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[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
HDNet World Report
USA - Forces for Good, Forces for Bad
World Report cameras have traveled across the country to take a critical look at two controversial elements within contemporary American society: nuclear power and video games. Both have spirited proponents, and both have passionate detractors. And both may soon play a greater role in the country's development.

9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Debate
Sex Education in Schools
How should teens be taught about sex in public schools? Guests include: Leslee Unruh, Director, National Abstinence Clearinghouse vs. Martha Kempner, Director of Public Information, SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States).

9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT * Premiere *
Deadline!
This week's unique news and events like you have never seen them before.

10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone
Trent Dilfer
Super Bowl winning Quarterback and current starter of the Cleveland Browns, Trent Dilfer sits down with Roy Firestone and discusses playing in NFL, being a part of the Super Bowl winning Baltimore Ravens and life outside the game. A 12-year journeyman in the league, Dilfer was selected sixth overall in the 1994 draft, he's played for four different teams providing leadership and veteran maturity on each of the teams he's been a part of.
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[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Blind Justice
In Your Face
A husband and wife, down on their luck, fake the husband's death for the insurance money. Bettancourt gives Dunbar the cold shoulder after she finds out he played a part in the dissolution of her relationship.
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