Saturday 5/11
FILM: An Officer and a Gentleman A US Navy flight school newbie with an attitude problem has to choose between his future in the air and a girl. Drama directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Louis Gossett Jr. (Star-22.15) FILM: The Proposition An English priest in the 1930s moves to Boston, where he has a mysterious relationship with his wealthiest parishioners, a couple who have hired a student to impregnate the wife. Romantic drama starring William Hurt, Kenneth Branagh and Madeleine Stowe. (Alpha-0.15) FILM: Miles from Home In the debt-striken US Midwest, two brothers being forced off their farm become local heroes when they begin robbing banks, squeezing the farming community. Crime drama directed by Gary Sinise, starring Brian Dennehy, Richard Gere, Penelope Ann Miller and Helen Hunt. (ET3-0.30) FILM: Withnail & I Two down-and-out resting actors in squalid 1969 London remove themselves to an uncle’s farmhouse, where they discover that they are not equipped for country living. Comedy starring Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann and Richard Griffiths. (Mega-2.00)
