Saturday 28/4
FILM: The First Wives Club Three divorced, middle-aged women reunite at a friend’s funeral and decide that enough is enough: They will not leave their marriages gracefully nor let the men get away with their philandering. Comedy starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Maggie Smith. (Star-22.30) FILM: The Long, Hot Summer Two big egos are stuck in the same town when a drifter comes in looking for work and the chief honcho hires him at his store. Drama based on William Faulkner’s short stories and his novel ‘The Hamlet,’ starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury. (Makedonia-11.00) FILM: Absolon Humankind is dying of a strange virus for which one man holds the cure, but a scientist trying to come up with an alternative antidote is murdered and it’s up to one cop to find out why. Science-fiction action thriller starring Christopher Lambert, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kelly Brook and Ron Perlman. (Mega-23.30) FILM: Bellissima A mother who dreams of her young daughter becoming a star and escaping the poverty in which she herself grew up, is willing to sacrifice everything for an audition at Cinecitta. Luchino Visconti drama, starring Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari and Tina Apicella. (In Italian) (ET3-0.30)
