M-NET STARS

The following movies are scheduled for broadcast on M-Net Stars (Channel 105) in the forthcoming week. NB Dates and times may change so check your DStv guide.

May 1 at 19h30: If The Shoe Fits (1990) directed by Tom Clegg and starring Rob Low and Jennifer Grey. A wallflower who makes her living dressing haute-couture models by day is a fantastic shoe designer by night. Unfortunately, no-one has ever seen her work, not even her arrogant fashion-designer boss. She then does a good deed for someone, and is later visited by a fairy godmother, who turns her into a great beauty. At last she catches the eye and the love of her employer!

May 2 at 19h30: Educating Rita (1983) directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Michael Caine, Julie Walters and Michael Williams. A young wife decides to complete her education. She enrols in an Open University literature course and is taken under the reluctant wing of her tutor, a semi-alcoholic English professor, who teaches her to value her own insights while still being able to beat the exams.

May 3 at 19h30: Take The Lead (2006) directed by Liz Friedlander and starring Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown and Yaya da Costa. The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids.

May 4 at 19h30: Addams Family (1991) directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd. A greedy lawyer teams up with a loan shark to pass off her son Gordon as Gomez's long-lost brother in an effort to infiltrate the house and locate the family's hidden treasure. The scheme comes unstuck when Gordon finds himself falling for the family's odd ways.

May 5 at 19h30: Out Of Sight (1998) directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez and Ving Rhames. A career bank robber breaks out of jail and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a US Marshall he has kidnapped.

May 6 at 19h30: Shanghai Surprise (1986) directed by Jim Goddard and starring Sean Penn, Madonna and Paul Freeman. A woman missionary enlists the services of a down and out adventurer, to help her track down a supply of opium that has disappeared under mysterious circumstances a year before, in 1937.

May 7 at 19h30: Slap Her; She’s French (2002) directed by Melanie Mayron and starring Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor, Michael McKean. A French foreign-exchange student comes to a small Texas high school, befriends a classmate, and practically takes over her life.