Mbc2 Schedule Daily

MBC2:Friday 31th Oct

00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
John Carpenter's Vampires
An American mao-tai fighter in Thailand must join forces with a group of vampire hunters to track down and kill a vampire lord who has kidnapped his girlfriend. Action-Patrick Bauchau


01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Vanilla sly
A successful publisher fin*s his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jaded lover


03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Dirty Harry
In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and deman*s ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime.


04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
Passages from Rimbauer's diary detail her descent from an innocent and submissive wife into a woman fighting a losing battle against the dark spirits that dwell within he home


04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
Singin' In The Rain
In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. (Classic)


08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
Ronin
A woman assembles a team of professional killers from all over the world to get a hold on a certain case with some mysterious content. The case is in the han*s of some ex-KGB spies and there are many people and organizations that will do anything to get it


10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Duets
A professional karaoke hustler reconnects with his daughter and a bored suburban businessman turns outlaw karaoke singer, among other plotlines.


12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Pocahontas
The daughter of a Native American tribe chief and English soldier share a romance when English colonists invade 16th century Virginia.


14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
The Tuxedo
Jimmy Tong is a chauffeur for millionaire Clark Devlin. Tong unknowingly tries on Devlin's tuxedo and fin*s that it gives extraordinary powers to anyone that puts on the suit. Action-Jackie Chan


16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Cadillac Man
When one car salesman gets the opportunity to redeem himself from all his sleazy sales pitches, financial philandering, and relentless womanizing, he is forced to confront all his demons in one very long afternoon.


18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
I Spy
When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott (Owen Wilson), is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy), on a dangerous top secret espionage mission


20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
The Yards
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he fin*s his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.


22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
Seven
Lt. William Somerset, a burnt-out veteran cop, is on the brink of retirement. Forced to train his ambitious and eager replacement, Somerset is teamed with Detective David Mills on an investigation that draws these disparate cops deeper and deeper into the twisted world of a cunning and meticulous criminal. He is methodical, exacting and grotesquely creative

MBC2:Saturday 1th Nov

00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Executive Command
When terrorists hijack an airborne passenger jet containing the Vice President of the United States and a devastating amount of poison gas, it's up to an expert hostage negotiator to save the day.


01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Sling Blade
Thornton plays Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man who spent most of his life in a mental institution. When Karl was a boy, he was severely mistreated by his abusive father (Robert Duvall).


03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Final Payback
An ex-cop, framed for a murder he didn't commit, sets out to find the real killer.


04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
The Hired Heart
A small-town, country doctor has been a widow for two years but is still in love with her dead husband, Michael. Despite the best efforts of her father in law to marry her off to the local eligible bachelors, she still remains so. The week-long county fair is approaching and her father in law traps her into an unfair deal involving the feeding of her bull and her attendance at the fair with a suitable escort. She decides to call his bluff by hiring a male escort to attend the fair as her lover.


06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth, is a tragic love story set against a background of wealth and social hypocrisy in turn of the century New York. Based on the classic Edith Wharton novel.A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.


08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
xXx
Xander Cage is an extreme sports athlete recruited by the government on a special mission to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring.


10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Chasing Papi
The successful and handsome wolf executive of the cosmetic industry Thomas Fuentes has three sexy Latin girlfriends: in Miami? the waitress Cici; in Chicago? the intellectual lawyer Lorena; and in New York? the "daddy's girl" Patricia. When the three women decide to visit him in Los Angeles? Thomas is in a big trouble.


12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Hart's War
Col. McNamara is imprisoned in a German camp during WWII. Still, he commands his fellow inmates against the dangerous German Col. Visser.


14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Crocodile Dundee 2
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.


16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Stepmom
A terminally-ill mother has to settle on the new woman in her ex-husband's life, who will be their new stepmother


18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
The Big Kahuna
On the last evening of a convention two seen-it-all industrial lubricant salesmen and a youngster from the research department gather in the hotel's hospitality suite to host a delegates party.


20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
The Good Thief
"The Good Thief" revolves around a heroin addict/retired thief through the setup and completion of one last job.


22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
The Distinguished Gentleman
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. But soon he learns the nature of the game and decides to fight back the only way he knows how, with a con.

MBC2:Sunday 2th Nov




00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Smoke
This film tries to convince us that reality doesn't matter so much as aesthetic satisfaction. In Auggie's New York smoke shop, day by day passes, seemingly unchanging until he teaches us to notice the little details of life.






01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.




03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Cutthroat Alley
The story is a cohesive whodunit with no major plot holes (although in the opening scene a woman seems to drive a car from the passenger's seat), plus you get to see two rappers (Mack 10 and Bizzy Bone, neither of whom have particularly big parts) die; what more could you want? Basicall.





04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
Marked Man
Frank, an auto mechanic, witnesses the love of his life's demise at the hands of a drunk driver. Frank lets lose his rage





06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Swarmed
The residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.





08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
The Tailor Of Panama
John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.





10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Sense and Sensibility
This film is an adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about the role of romance and money in English upper class society of the 19th century.





12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Woman on Top
Isabella is a great cook, making her husband's restaurant in Bahia, Brazil, a success. To control her motion sickness, she must do the driving and be on top during sex, which drives her macho husband, Toninho, to infidelities. Heart-broken, she leaves for San Francisco, moving in with her childhood friend, Monica, a cross-dresser.Stricken, Toninho heads north to get her back; he finds her hosting a popular TV show, Passion Food, courted by its producer. Can he learn humility? Can she find happiness without him?





14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
The Last Sign
Andie MacDowell portrays a woman who is tormented by the ghost of her abusive, alcoholic husband. She must come to terms with the past if she is to find peace and love. Samuel le Bihan is a French engineer who she finds renewed love with and Tim Roth plays her deceased husband who shows us that hate can live on after death.





16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Woman Wanted
Story of a woman (Hunter) who comes to work as a housekeeper for a widower (Moriarty) and his grown son (Sutherland) and of their attachment to her to the point that she is asked by the father to marry... to the dismay of the son who also loves her.





18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Irresistible
Sophie Hartley is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker? Mara? wants her children? her husband and her life. But no one believes Sophie. Forced to prove her sanity? Sophie grows increasingly paranoid - but is she imagining things?





20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
Road to Perdition
Two fathers: , a hit man for the Irish mob in Depression-era Chicago; and , Sullivan's boss and the man who raised him as a son. Two sons: each desperate to earn his father's favor. Jealousy and competition put them all on a collision course,





22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
The Ring
When her niece dies of fright after she watched a disturbing video, a skeptical journalist travels to the pacific northwest in search of the tape's origins.Herror

MBC2:Tuesday 4th Nov



00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
The Flight of the Dove
Alex (Theresa Russell is a government agent who trades sex for state secrets. Will (Scott Glenn) is a taciturn demolition expert troubled by a violent past. When the two find themselves being pursued by the same nefarious spy ring, bullets start flying and bedsprings start creaking.




01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Saw 4
The fourth SAW film takes fans into uncharted waters. Now that John/Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is dead, screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (writers of the Project Greenlight-produced FEAST) give us Jigsaw's "origin" story--finally showing us why he does what he does.





03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Dangerous Beauty
It's the 16th century, and Veronica Franco falls in love with Marco Venier. But Venier is from rich family and his parents are against their marriage.





04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
Mask
True story of a single mother and her struggle to raise her teenage son who was born with a severe facial disfigurement





06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Out Cold
Bull Mountain is an Alaskan ski town where snowboarding cowboys rule the slopes. When "The Mayor" Papa Muntz dies, he leaves Rick (Jason London) in charge. His dying words are, "Don't go changing Bull Mountain!"





06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Out Cold
Bull Mountain is an Alaskan ski town where snowboarding cowboys rule the slopes. When "The Mayor" Papa Muntz dies, he leaves Rick (Jason London) in charge. His dying words are, "Don't go changing Bull Mountain!"





08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
Half Past Dead
the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.





10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Shattered Glass
The true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles





12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Deep Impact
As a comet is on a collision course with earth, humans have to prepare for their survival. They randomly select eight hundred thousand people to be saved in order to keep the human race alive






14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
"The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (1967) started out as a typical comedy/variety program. When the show began (and continued) to use humor/satire to criticize America's involvement in the Vietnam War, CBS network censors and executives were, to say the least, nervous. This Bravo cable channel documentary tells what happened behind the scenes at the network, how the people involved were affected, and why the show was ultimately cancelled. Many of those who were involved directly with the show are interviewed, including performers, writers, and former CBS executives





16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
The Pelican Brief
A young female law student endangers her own life while solving one of the most significant crimes in history.





18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Impostor
Based on a 1953 short story by Philip K. Dick, the film shares that schizophrenic author's long-running obsessions with concealed identity and humanity's potential inferiority to alternative life forms.





20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
Red Dragon
The film revolves around Will Graham (Edward Norton), who is an FBI agent with a rare gift for tracking serial killers and who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience.





22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
54
The story spans the summer of 1979 until the decline of Studio 54 a year later with IRS investigations, followed by the arrest and jailing of Rubell. Costumes by Ellen Lutter capture the glitter and glam-glitz of the period.
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MBC2:Thursday 6th Nov

00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
The Warrior
In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the longitme enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.


01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Deathwatch
In 1917, in the Western front, a group of survivors of the British Company Y reach the most forward German trench in a foggy night. They capture a German soldier that advises that evil is in the trench, forcing the soldiers to kill each other, and asks them to leave the place. Only the private Charlie Shakespeare listens and helps the prisoner, while a supernatural force scares and makes the soldiers insane


03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Alien Vs. Predator
During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in the Antarctic ocean, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realise that only one species can win.


04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
The Journey of August King
August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a run-away slave, a young woman about 19 and August King must decide to violate the law and help this slave to freedom or else leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.


06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
The Remains of the Day
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude


08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
It's now six years since the last Halloween celebration in Haddonfield. Michael Myers, his niece Jamie, and the mysterious Man in Black all disappeared after the explosive end of Part 5. Everyone assumes them all to be dead but actually, Jamie has been captured by the Man in Black, who has her impregnated.


10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
It Runs in the Family
The Grombergs are a prominent, dysfunctional New York family busy wallowing in their separate lives. Papa Gromberg (Kirk Douglas), catching a spark in his twilight years, tries to reconcile with his son, Alex (Michael Douglas) and grandson, Asher (Cameron Douglas).


12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
The King of Comedy
Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants.


14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
The Flight of the Dove
Alex (Theresa Russell is a government agent who trades sex for state secrets. Will (Scott Glenn) is a taciturn demolition expert troubled by a violent past. When the two find themselves being pursued by the same nefarious spy ring, bullets start flying and bedsprings start creaking.


16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Don't Come Knocking
. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there. The very idea seems like a ray of hope that his life wasn't all in vain. So he sets out to find that young man or woman. He discovers an entire life that he has missed


16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Don't Come Knocking
. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there. The very idea seems like a ray of hope that his life wasn't all in vain. So he sets out to find that young man or woman. He discovers an entire life that he has missed


18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Bottle Rocket
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.


20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
Ladder 49
"Ladder 49" introduces us to the life of Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix), a firefighter for the Baltimore City fire department. Jack is assigned to Fire Station 33 as a pipe-man for Ladder 49.

MBC2:Friday, 7 November 2008




00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Dead Awake
Desmond Caine has an unusual sleeping disorder that causes him to wander the streets in a state of dreamlike insomnia. Nearly in a trance late one night, Desmond stumbles upon a murder in process. He witnesses the grizzly affair and rushes to report the incident. The unusual circumstances under which he sees the murder makes Desmond the lead suspect. Full of twists, this mysterious action will have audiences guessing what will happen next as well as trying to decipher what is reality and what is a dream.




01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
The Warrior
In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the longitme enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.




03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Intermission
Intermission is an urban love story about people adrift and their convoluted journeys in the search for some kind of love. When the desperately insecure and emotionally inarticulate John (Murphy) breaks up with Deirdre (Macdonald) to 'give her a little test' his plan backfires leaving her broken-hearted and him alone and miserable.





04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
White Air
There once was a time when Alex Crow (Riley Smith) was set to become the next big thing in snowboarding. When family issues, a falling-out with his girlfriend Christie (Swain), and a series of disheartening losses to his nemesis Jason (Brent le Macks) take the air out of Alex's launch, he sets his snowboard aside in favor of supporting his family with a job at the local garage.





06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
The King of Comedy
Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants.





08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
Ladder 49
"Ladder 49" introduces us to the life of Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix), a firefighter for the Baltimore City fire department. Jack is assigned to Fire Station 33 as a pipe-man for Ladder 49.





10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Don't Come Knocking
. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there. The very idea seems like a ray of hope that his life wasn't all in vain. So he sets out to find that young man or woman. He discovers an entire life that he has missed





12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Pocahontas
The daughter of a Native American tribe chief and English soldier share a romance when English colonists invade 16th century Virginia.




14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Bottle Rocket
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.






16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Coming to America
An African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.





18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Bulletproof Monk
60 years ago, a monk was appointed the guardian of a mysterious scroll that grants remarkable powers to those who possess it. Now he must find someone new to protect it Action-Chow Yun-Fat/Seann Scott.





20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
Jackie Brown
Pam Grier plays Jackie Brown, a middle-aged airline flight attendant who gets coerced by ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Keaton) to help them bring down arms smuggler Ordell Robbie (Jackson) and his accomplices: ex-con bank robber Louis Gara and unemployed good-time girl Melanie Ralston (De Niro and Fonda).





22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
Sideways
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
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MBC2:Sunday 9th Nov


00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Hurlyburly
Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who's personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.


01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Joe the King
A destitute 14 year old (Noah Fleiss) struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's (Karen Young) hands, harsher abuse at his father's (Val Kilmer), and a growing separation from his slightly older brother (Max Ligosh). Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works.


03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Beyond Borders
Sarah is unhappily married to Henry Bauford son of a wealthy British industrialist. She develops a special romantic relationship with passionate relief worker Nick.


04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
The Legend of Johnny Lingo
When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens.


06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Death Becomes Her
Helen, a writer, and Madeline, an actress, have hated each other for years. Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once Helen's fiance. After she recovers from a mental breakdown, Helen vows revenge by stealing back Ernest and plotting to kill Madeline.


08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
Waking the Dead
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge


10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Venom
When a voodoo witch has a car accident over a bridge in Louisiana, the rejected tow trucker driver Ray rescues her from the overhang car. She begs him to get her suitcase, which she had just dug from the cemetery, from the backseat of the car. When Ray returns to get the object, many snakes are released from the suitcase, bite him and the car falls in the swamp with him.


12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Novocaine
Novocaine, Artisan Entertainment’s edgy, unpredictable crime thriller, stars Steve Martin as a prosperous dentist whose well-ordered existence is thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into a seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder.


14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Lonesome Jim
Jim is a young man who, after deciding he can't make it on his own, moves back to his hometown in Indiana -- under his parents' roof. He's saved from his family's dysfunction by a local woman and her son, who sees him as a father figure.


16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
The Deep End of the Ocean
The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family's reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found ten years later, living in the same town.


18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Waterworld
The world is flooded. Civilization is lost under the sea. The remaining people travel the seas, in search of survival. A drifter aids a mother & daughter in seeking Dry land.


20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
Catch Me If You Can
A true story about Frank Abagnale who before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a pilot, doctor and legal prosecutor. Drama-


22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
Don't Say A Word
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret

MBC2:Tuesday, 11 November 2008


00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
8 of Diamonds
"8 of Diamonds" weaves a tangled web of deception and double-cross schemes that will leave you guessing until the very end. When three career criminals fail in their attempt to steal a flawless diamond, no one can be trusted and temptation lies around every corner.


01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
The One
A superhuman criminal named Yu-Law (Jet Li), once a member of the organization policing interdimensional travel , seeks to hunt down and kill variations of himself in alternate universes to absorb a common life force that connects them all. By killing his other selves, and absorbing their power, he wishes to become as a god.


03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
The Hollow
The movie tells the story of Ian Cranston (Zegers), a high school teen who just found out he is the descendant of Ichabod Crane. With the help of his girlfriend, Karen (Cuoco), a local bully named Brody (Carter), and the old cemetery caretaker, Claus Van Ripper, Ian now must stop the newly resurrected, Headless Horseman.


04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl named Winnie and a family who she meets, the Tucks. The Tucks have a secret, they're immortal. They drank water from a spring that was actually a fountain of youth. Till the end of time, they will stay that way. Winnie falls in love with one of the Tucks, Jesse, a "17" year old boy who shares the same feelings for her.


06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Cocktail
After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender.


08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
In the Valley of Elah
Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) has served his country faithfully, and now the time has come for him to return home to the United States. Shortly after returning stateside, however, Mike simply vanishes without a trace. Mike's father, Hank, is a former MP from the Vietnam era, and quickly recruits Detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) to assist him in his search for the missing soldier.


10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Rushmore
Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very little after school he doesn't do.


12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Artificial Intelligence: AI
In this futuristic fairy tale? "David"? a highly-advanced robotic boy? hopes to become a real boy so that he can win back the affection of the human mother who abandoned him. Like Pinocchio? he goes on a long journey hoping to find his "Blue Fairy?" who can make his dreams come true



14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Swimming Upstream
SWIMMING UPSTREAM is an inspiring drama that tells the true story of Australian swimmer Tony Fingleton (Jess Spencer), who rose above his deeply troubled home life in order to become a national champion in 1950s Brisbane.


16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
High School High
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.


18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Torque
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival & biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey, leader of the most feared biker gang. Action-Ice Cube


20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
The Gathering
While going to the town of Ashby Wake, the drifter Cassie is hit by a car, things turn spooky when the girl begins to hallucinate and believes strangers are following her.


22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
Green Street Hooligans
Expelled unfairly from Harvard, an American undergraduate, Matt Bucker flees to England to his sister's home. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism.

MBC2:Wednesday, 12 November 2008


00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Halloween: Resurrection
You thought Michael Myers was decapitated at the end of HALLOWEEN: H20? Think again. The latest installment in the popular horror franchise, HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION uses a clever premise to give the legendary murderer yet another opportunity to wreak havoc on a cast of innocent


01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Green Street Hooligans
Expelled unfairly from Harvard, an American undergraduate, Matt Bucker flees to England to his sister's home. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism.


03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
8 of Diamonds
"8 of Diamonds" weaves a tangled web of deception and double-cross schemes that will leave you guessing until the very end. When three career criminals fail in their attempt to steal a flawless diamond, no one can be trusted and temptation lies around every corner.



04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
Langston is deeply skeptical. He tracks down Col. De Jager, the most notorious torturer in the SA Police and tries to penetrate the mind of a monster, an experience that obliges him to confront his own demons. Anna Malan is an Afrikaans poet who is covering the hearings for radio. As a white South African she is shattered by the accounts of the cruelty and depravity committed by her fellow countrymen.


06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Swimming Upstream
SWIMMING UPSTREAM is an inspiring drama that tells the true story of Australian swimmer Tony Fingleton (Jess Spencer), who rose above his deeply troubled home life in order to become a national champion in 1950s Brisbane.


08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
The Gathering
While going to the town of Ashby Wake, the drifter Cassie is hit by a car, things turn spooky when the girl begins to hallucinate and believes strangers are following her.


10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
High School High
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.


12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Torque
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival & biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey, leader of the most feared biker gang. Action-Ice Cube


14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Facing Extinction
A man jailed for the murder of an android and an android about to be reprogrammed due to his overt like of humans are forced to fend for themselves when disaster strikes as they are being transferred to prison in a futuristic thriller starring Scott Bairstow and Joseph Lawrence. Jute (Bairstow) has been sentenced to prison for killing an android


16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Death to Smoochy
Fired in disgrace, kids show host Randolph Smiley finds himself out on the street, while his replacement Sheldon Mopes, finds himself on the fast track to success with a new hit show as the proud purple rhino Smoochy.


18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Almost Famous
William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo


20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
Alexander
Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

Thursday 13th Nov

01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Alexander
Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.


04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
The Room Upstairs
Stockard Channing shines yet again in The Room Upstairs, a heartbreaking little flick about Leah, a landlady & special needs teacher who feels something is missing in her life.


06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Facing Extinction
A man jailed for the murder of an android and an android about to be reprogrammed due to his overt like of humans are forced to fend for themselves when disaster strikes as they are being transferred to prison in a futuristic thriller starring Scott Bairstow and Joseph Lawrence. Jute (Bairstow) has been sentenced to prison for killing an android


08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
Halloween: Resurrection
You thought Michael Myers was decapitated at the end of HALLOWEEN: H20? Think again. The latest installment in the popular horror franchise, HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION uses a clever premise to give the legendary murderer yet another opportunity to wreak havoc on a cast of innocent


10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Death to Smoochy
Fired in disgrace, kids show host Randolph Smiley finds himself out on the street, while his replacement Sheldon Mopes, finds himself on the fast track to success with a new hit show as the proud purple rhino Smoochy.


12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Chinatown
Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn't drop the case immediately.


14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Almost Famous
William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo


16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Under the Tuscan Sun
After Frances's seemingly happy San Francisco marriage ends abruptly? she goes into a funk. Urged by her friends to move on? she joins a bus tour of Tuscany where? on the spur of the moment? she buys a crumbling villa. Although life gets in the way of love? Frances's wishes come true in unexpected ways? and there's always the Tuscan sun.


18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Deadly Water
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - said to be guarded by the very beast that murdered his family.


20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
Starsky and Hutch
Detective David Starsky (Ben Stiller) is the most dedicated undercover cop working the mean streets of Bay City, California. Maniacally devoted to his job, when he's on duty no crime goes unpunished - and he's always on duty.


22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
Van Wilderarty Liaison
The most popular kid on Campus meets a beautiful Journalist who makes him realize that maybe he's Afraid to graduate.

Friday 14th Nov



00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Starstruck
Jackie (Jo Kennedy) dreams of becoming a singing star and her cousin Angus (Ross O'Donovan) thinks he has what it takes to be a successful manager. After a spot at the hip club in town (wearing a kangaroo suit) fails to win Jackie any paying gigs, Angus enters her in a major talent competition to be held on New Year's Eve. If Jackie wins, her career is assured, and the $25,000 grand prize will help keep her parents' cafe open.





01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Deadly Water
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - said to be guarded by the very beast that murdered his family.





03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
The Day the Ponies Came Back
Daniel (Guillaume Canet) repairs brass instruments for a living, and when he journeys to New York to work on some French horns for Paul (Tony Lo Bianco), a business friend, he brings with him a scrap of paper bearing the identity of his father, whom he has never met.





04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
The Lazarus Child
A road accident leaves seven-year-old Frankie Heywood gravely injured and deeply comatose, when she is hit by a bus, and her twelve-year-old brother Ben severely depressed and traumatized after he witnessed the event. Their parents, Jack and Alison, have to put aside their fights over their unstable marriage to focus on their damaged children.





06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Chinatown
Los Angeles detective Jake Gittes is hired by a woman claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray to spy on her husband. Shortly after Gittes is hired, the real Mrs. Mulwray appears in his office threatening to sue if he doesn't drop the case immediately.





08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
Starsky and Hutch
Detective David Starsky (Ben Stiller) is the most dedicated undercover cop working the mean streets of Bay City, California. Maniacally devoted to his job, when he's on duty no crime goes unpunished - and he's always on duty.





10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Van Wilderarty Liaison
The most popular kid on Campus meets a beautiful Journalist who makes him realize that maybe he's Afraid to graduate.





12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
HOME ON THE RANGE
When an eviction notice shows up at the gates of the Patch of Heaven dairy farm, three cows take it upon themselves to prevent their home from being taken away.





14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Under the Tuscan Sun
After Frances's seemingly happy San Francisco marriage ends abruptly? she goes into a funk. Urged by her friends to move on? she joins a bus tour of Tuscany where? on the spur of the moment? she buys a crumbling villa. Although life gets in the way of love? Frances's wishes come true in unexpected ways? and there's always the Tuscan sun.





16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Without a Paddle
The movie revolves around three men going on a camping trip. It is, somewhat, a parody of adventure films like "Deliverance". Indeed, one of the stars of "Deliverance", Burt Reynolds, makes an appearance in the film, and the plotlines are similar.





20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
8 Mile
Jimmy Smith (Eminem), known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit's entire life has been a hard climb, and it certainly hasn't gotten any easier lately.





22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
Legionnaire
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion.

MBC2:Saturday 15th November



00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Executive Command
When terrorists hijack an airborne passenger jet containing the Vice President of the United States and a devastating amount of poison gas, it's up to an expert hostage negotiator to save the day.





01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Sling Blade
Thornton plays Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man who spent most of his life in a mental institution. When Karl was a boy, he was severely mistreated by his abusive father (Robert Duvall).





03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Final Payback
An ex-cop, framed for a murder he didn't commit, sets out to find the real killer.





04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
The Hired Heart
A small-town, country doctor has been a widow for two years but is still in love with her dead husband, Michael. Despite the best efforts of her father in law to marry her off to the local eligible bachelors, she still remains so. The week-long county fair is approaching and her father in law traps her into an unfair deal involving the feeding of her bull and her attendance at the fair with a suitable escort. She decides to call his bluff by hiring a male escort to attend the fair as her lover.





06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth, is a tragic love story set against a background of wealth and social hypocrisy in turn of the century New York. Based on the classic Edith Wharton novel.A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.





08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
xXx
Xander Cage is an extreme sports athlete recruited by the government on a special mission to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring.





10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Chasing Papi
The successful and handsome wolf executive of the cosmetic industry Thomas Fuentes has three sexy Latin girlfriends: in Miami? the waitress Cici; in Chicago? the intellectual lawyer Lorena; and in New York? the "daddy's girl" Patricia. When the three women decide to visit him in Los Angeles? Thomas is in a big trouble.





12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Hart's War
Col. McNamara is imprisoned in a German camp during WWII. Still, he commands his fellow inmates against the dangerous German Col. Visser.




14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Crocodile Dundee 2
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.




16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Stepmom
A terminally-ill mother has to settle on the new woman in her ex-husband's life, who will be their new stepmother





18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
The Big Kahuna
On the last evening of a convention two seen-it-all industrial lubricant salesmen and a youngster from the research department gather in the hotel's hospitality suite to host a delegates party.




20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
The Good Thief
"The Good Thief" revolves around a heroin addict/retired thief through the setup and completion of one last job.





22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
The Distinguished Gentleman
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. But soon he learns the nature of the game and decides to fight back the only way he knows how, with a con.

mbc2:Sunday 16th Nov


00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
The Rage Within
Exploitation film legend Fred Williamson plays Dallas police detective Dakota Smith in this exciting action film. Police Officer Billy Rains (Mike Norris) and his partner Darren Steel (David Rael) are finishing their last shift together, after which Rains intends to leave for retirement in Mexico.



01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Casino
Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for The Mob from the 1970s until the early 1980s.




03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Tunnel
A cop and a career criminal join forces to battle a terrorist faction in this taut action thriller. An SAS agent (Daniel Baldwin) has been assigned to escort a ruthless jewel thief (Kim Coates) to custody by train when they discover a tunnel along the route has been seized by a gang of terrorists.





04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
Wild Blue
The story revolves around the mother of a young boy and an american pilot .




06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Juwanna Man
Juwanna Mann follows the story of Jamal Jeffries (Miguel A. Nunez, Jr.), the reigning 'bad boy' of basketball, whose undisciplined on-court antics land him out of the league and without any prospects. Financially strapped and untrained in anything but basketball, Jamal comes up with a plan so outrageous it just might work: dress up like a woman and try out for the woman's basketball league.




08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
Birthday Girl
Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online.



10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
White Oleander
Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander.





12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
The Whole Nine Yards
Nick is a dentist in Canada who discovers that his new neighbor is Jimmy "The Tulip". His wife convinces him to inform the mob boss who wants Jimmy dead.





14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Life with Mikey
Michael J. Fox stars as a child actor who has grown up, and grown out of his popularity. He now runs a talent agency with his brother...





16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Overnight Delivery
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful. So he sends her a letter, but than finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love. The only problem is the delivery man will not stop until the package has been delivered.





18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
Treasure Raiders
Michael "professor specializing in American history nationality residing in Russia, teaching profession, the story centered around which to hide his secret and his ability to command a stranger to car racing.





20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
High Crimes
A happily married lawyer is shocked to learn that her husband has a hidden past as a classified military operative and is accused of committing war crimes.




21:30 GMT
0:30 KSA
Hellraiser: Hellseeker
The story is about Trevor Gooden who survives a car accident that apparently kills his wife Kirsty Cotton when their car plunges off a bridge into the river below.

mbc2:Monday 17th Nov



00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Tamara
The film focuses on the story of Tamara (Jenna Dewan) while she is growing up. She is mousey looking, shy brainy and happens to have a crush on her literature teacher, Bill Natolly (Matthew Marsden).




01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Hellraiser: Hellseeker
The story is about Trevor Gooden who survives a car accident that apparently kills his wife Kirsty Cotton when their car plunges off a bridge into the river below.




03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
The Rage Within
Exploitation film legend Fred Williamson plays Dallas police detective Dakota Smith in this exciting action film. Police Officer Billy Rains (Mike Norris) and his partner Darren Steel (David Rael) are finishing their last shift together, after which Rains intends to leave for retirement in Mexico.





04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
Music from Another Room
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny (Jude Law), a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann (Gretchen Mol) but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric (Jon Tenney, a very practical match.





06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Life with Mikey
Michael J. Fox stars as a child actor who has grown up, and grown out of his popularity. He now runs a talent agency with his brother...





08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
High Crimes
A happily married lawyer is shocked to learn that her husband has a hidden past as a classified military operative and is accused of committing war crimes.





10:00 GMT
13:00 KSA
Overnight Delivery
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful. So he sends her a letter, but than finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love. The only problem is the delivery man will not stop until the package has been delivered.





12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
Treasure Raiders
Michael "professor specializing in American history nationality residing in Russia, teaching profession, the story centered around which to hide his secret and his ability to command a stranger to car racing.





14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke depicts a mystical battle between Animal Gods of the forest and humans during Japan's Muromachi Period. Young Ashitaka receives a fatal infection after a demonic wild boar attacks his northern village.





16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Patch Adams
Hunter "Patch" Adams was criticized in his official medical school record for "excessive happiness" and was once told by a faculty advisor, "If you want to be a clown, join a circus." Patch did, in fact, want to be a clown.





18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
The Mask of Zorro
Zorro saves three men from the fleeing Spanish Governor but is followed to his home where his wife is killed and his infant daughter taken and is imprisoned. Twenty years later he escapes and finds his daughter has been raised as the governor's child. Vowing revenge he takes a young thief who is also seeking revenge as his apprentice? who will become the new wearer of the Mask of Zorro





22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
Running Scared
The gangster Joey Gazelle is in charge of getting rid of the guns that killed dirty cops in a transaction of drugs between the mobsters.

mbc2:Tuesday 18th November



00:00 GMT
3:00 KSA
Pierrepoint
Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries & was a hangman following his father's footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency, and rising to become 'the best in the land'. Drama-Timothy Spall





01:30 GMT
4:30 KSA
Running Scared
The gangster Joey Gazelle is in charge of getting rid of the guns that killed dirty cops in a transaction of drugs between the mobsters.





03:00 GMT
6:00 KSA
Tamara
The film focuses on the story of Tamara (Jenna Dewan) while she is growing up. She is mousey looking, shy brainy and happens to have a crush on her literature teacher, Bill Natolly (Matthew Marsden).





04:30 GMT
7:30 KSA
Once We Were Strangers
Antonio is an Italian working at a Manhattan restaurant and meets Ellen..Just as Ellen and Antonio appear to be creating a steady relationship, she drops the bombshell that she's leaving for Paris. Meanwhile, immigration officials are closing in on Antonio, and Apu and Devi (his friends) are trying to work out an arrangement that will let him be a modern guy while not offending Devi's traditional values.





06:00 GMT
9:00 KSA
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke depicts a mystical battle between Animal Gods of the forest and humans during Japan's Muromachi Period. Young Ashitaka receives a fatal infection after a demonic wild boar attacks his northern village.





08:00 GMT
11:00 KSA
The weather man
Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage), chief weather forecaster for Chicago’s most popular morning news program. Despite his high-profile position and light work week, life tends to maneuver against Spritz when he is away from the office.





12:00 GMT
15:00 KSA
The Mask of Zorro
Zorro saves three men from the fleeing Spanish Governor but is followed to his home where his wife is killed and his infant daughter taken and is imprisoned. Twenty years later he escapes and finds his daughter has been raised as the governor's child. Vowing revenge he takes a young thief who is also seeking revenge as his apprentice? who will become the new wearer of the Mask of Zorro





14:00 GMT
17:00 KSA
Love Affair
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. Both engaged to others.They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up, the other doesn't, but they run into each other afterwards.





16:00 GMT
19:00 KSA
Down to Earth
Comedian Lance Barton (Rock) is struggling to get his career off the ground when he dies in an untimely bus accident; arriving at the Pearly Gates, he discovers that he's not supposed to have passed on for another 50 years.





18:00 GMT
21:00 KSA
The company
She struggles with the demands of being a dancer while supporting herself as a waitress and starting up a romance with Josh (James Franco). Meanwhile, the ballet company director, Alberto Antonelli (Malcolm McDowell), manages to balance his own administrative and artistic duties. Campbell does her own dancing in the film and the rest of the company is played by the actual members of the Joffrey Ballet.





20:00 GMT
23:00 KSA
The Grudge 2
In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister (Gellar). The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their lives.




22:00 GMT
1:00 KSA
Wall Street
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.