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Posted by Phantasy on Thursday, April 24 2014 at 11:40:29AM

Saturday 26 April, 8.30am - 11.15am, Movie Mix

LITTLE BUDDHA (1993, It/Fr/UK)
A Tibetan monk travels to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher and finds 8-year-old Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger). However, there are two other candidates: Raju (Raju Lal), a waif from Kathmandu, and Indian girl Gita (Greishma Makar Singh). Videocaps

Saturday 26 April, 3.00pm - 5.10pm, ITV3

The RAILWAY CHILDREN (1971, UK)
Nostalgic tale of Edwardian childhood based on the E. Nesbit novel with Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett and Gary Warren as the three children: Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter. A family is forced to leave their London home and move to a small cottage in Yorkshire when their father is arrested. Videocaps

Saturday 26 April, 6.50pm - 9.00pm, Film4

The GOLDEN COMPASS (2007, US/UK)
12-year-old orphan Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) lives in a parallel universe (where everyone is accompanied by a companion animal called a daemon) and journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organisation, aided by an alethiometer, or golden compass, that helps her see the truth. Videocaps

Saturday 26 April, 3.10am - 5.00am (early Sunday), Movie Mix

The BROOKE ELLISON STORY (2004, US TVM)
After 11-year-old Brooke (Vanessa Marano) is rendered quadriplegic by a road accident, her mother tries to help her to come to terms with her plight. Jenson Goins plays her older sister Kysten and Devon Gearhart her younger brother Reed. Videocaps

Sunday 27 April, 6.00am - 8.00am, True Entertainment

A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE (1994, US TVM)
A young widow and her two daughters, Deenie (Chloe Lattanzi) and Emily Rose (Stephanie Sawyer), are snowed in for Christmas with the man sent from the bank to evict them. Videocaps

Sunday 27 April, 12.00pm - 2.35pm, ITV2

The LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (1997, US)
aka Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World
Sequel in which Dr Ian Malcolm reluctantly heads an expedition to another island stocked with dinosaurs resurrected by genetic engineering, and finds that his daughter (Vanessa Lee Chester) has stowed away. The film starts with a young English girl (Camilla Belle) being attacked by baby dinosaurs. Eventually an adult T. Rex is crated up and taken back to San Diego where it inevitably breaks free and runs amok. Little Benjamin (Colton James) wakes up his parents and tells them, "There's a dinosaur in our back yard." The film ends with the scene set for another sequel. Videocaps

Sunday 27 April, 2.10pm - 4.00pm, 5*

ZOOM (2006, US)
A retired superhero makes a comeback to help train the next generation of comic-book saviours, including 6-year-old Cindy (Ryan Newman) and 12-year-old Tucker (Spencer Breslin). Videocaps

Sunday 27 April, 5.00pm - 6.50pm, Movie Mix
Friday 2 May, 3.00pm - 4.50pm, Movie Mix

BERMUDA TRIANGLE (1996, US TVM)
A family is stranded on a mysterious uncharted Bermudan island when their boat is wrecked in a storm. Lisa Jakub plays Annie, the teenage daughter, David Gallagher plays Sam, the 10-year-old son and Michael Campillo plays Mala, a native boy. Videocaps

Sunday 27 April, 7.20pm - 10.00pm, ITV2

STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999, US)
aka The Phantom Menace
When the evil Trade Federation blockades the peaceful planet of Naboo, two Jedi knights are despatched to mediate in the dispute. They are forced to withdraw, taking 14-year-old Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman), and land on the desert planet Tatooine to repair their ship. There they find 9-year-old slave boy Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who has incipient Jedi powers. (Sometimes Queen Amidala assumes the role of a handmaiden, Padmé, while handmaiden Sabé (Keira Knightley) disguises herself as the Queen as a decoy.) Videocaps

Monday 28 April, 9.00am - 10.50am, Movie Mix

The BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE (2001, US TVM)
When her mother uproots the family to California during the Gold Rush, teenager California Whipple (Jena Malone) learns about life the hard way. Michael Welch plays her younger brother Butte and Celeste Leary her younger sister Prairie. Videocaps

Wednesday 30 April, 9.00pm - 11.00pm, BBC4

MONGOL: THE RISE TO POWER OF GENGHIS KHAN (2007, Rus/Ger/Kaz)
After his father is murdered by a rival tribe, 9-year-old Temudjin (Odnyam Odsuren) learns what it takes to be a great leader and a fearless warrior. (Odnyam Odsuren only appears in the first 25 minutes of the film, but his children appear briefly later.) Videocaps

Wednesday 30 April, 9.00pm - 11.10pm, Movie Mix

The BLUE LAGOON (1980, US)
The story of two children, Richard (Glen Kohan, 8/Chris Atkins, 18) and Emmeline (Elva Josephson, 10/Brooke Shields, 14), who are shipwrecked on a desert island and grow up to love one another. (The children (younger and older) are seen nude on the beach and swimming underwater. Videocaps (no nudies)

Wednesday 30 April, 11.10pm - 1.15am, Movie Mix

RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON (1991, US)
Sequel to "The Blue Lagoon" which basically re-tells the story with the son of the young couple in the original story being stranded on the same desert island with another girl, to grow up together as before. The son, Richard, is played (as a young boy) by Garette Ratliff Henson and the girl by Courtney Phillips, later Milla Jovovich.

Wednesday 30 April, 10.50pm - 12.35am, Film4

The HAPPENING (2008, Ind/US)
When a mysterious outbreak of something that causes people to kill themselves starts in New York, a teacher, his wife, a friend and his 8-year old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) flee to the countryside. Videocaps

Wednesday 30 April, 12.35am - 3.30am (early Thursday), Film4

The LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988, US)
Controversial, fictionalised drama about Christ's adult life and crucifixion directed by Martin Scorsese. In the last 30 minutes of the film, Juliette Caton plays Jesus' 'guardian angel' when, while on the cross, he imagines how his life could have been different if he had married and had children. Videocaps

Friday 2 May, 12.50am - 2.25am (early Saturday), Film4

BENEATH (2007, US)
14-year-old Christy (Brenna O'Brien) is haunted by the belief that she caused the death of her older sister Vanessa in a car accident and returns to her home town six years later to find that Vanessa's daughter Amy (Jessica Amlee) is haunted by "dark things". Videocaps




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