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05:20 am - 07:30 am, Today on Sky Cinema Premiere (501)

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About this Broadcast

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When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life. Drama based on the novel by Sigrid Nunez, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray


2024 HD subtitles 16x9 mature-scenes strong-language rating-with-pin
Comedy General Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Naomi Watts (Actor) .. Iris
Bill Murray (Actor) .. Walter
Noma Dumezweni (Actor) .. Barbara
Sarah Pidgeon (Actor) .. Val
Carla Gugino (Actor) .. Elaine
Scott McGehee (Director)
David Siegel (Director)

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Did You Know..

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Naomi Watts (Actor) .. Iris
Born: September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, Kent
Best Known For: Playing Betty in Mulholland Drive.
Early-life: Naomi Ellen Watts was born in Shoreham, Kent on September 28, 1968. Her parents divorced when she was four and she moved across South East England with her mother. Naomi's parents reconciled but, two years later, her father died. Following his death, Naomi moved around England and Wales before settling in Sydney, Australia when she was 14, where her mother enrolled her in acting lessons. Naomi wanted to become an actress after watching the film Fame (1980). She auditioned for many TV adverts and got her first film role in For Love Alone (1986). Naomi tried to become a model at 18 and signed to a model agency that sent her to Japan. After failing several auditions, she returned to Sydney and worked in advertising for a department store and later as an assistant fashion editor for the magazine Follow Me. She decided to quit her job and pursue acting after participating in a drama workshop.
Career: While living in Australia, Watts appeared in such films as Flirting (1991), Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) and Gross Misconduct (1993) as well as the soap opera Home and Away. She then moved to America but struggled early on in her career to land work. Watts got a supporting role in Tank Girl (1995) but it flopped at the box office. She then appeared in a number of largely forgotten films and TV programmes before getting her breakthrough in Mulholland Drive (2001). Following this, she landed the lead role in The Ring (2002) and then 21 Grams (2003). Her first comedy was I Heart Huckabees (2004). The next year, she appeared as Ann Darrow in King Kong (2005) and reprised her role as Rachel for The Ring 2 (2005). Watts then went on to appear in The Painted Veil (2006), Funny Games (2007), The International (2009) and The Impossible (2012). She also produced The Painted Veil and Funny Games. More recently, Watts appeared in the second film from the Divergent Series, Insurgent (2015), as well as Demolition (2015), Chuck (2016) and the Netflix drama series Gypsy. She was also executive producer for Gypsy.
Quote: "If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will."
Trivia: She was Oscar-nominated for best actress for The Impossible and 21 Grams.
Bill Murray (Actor) .. Walter
Born: September 21, 1950 in Wilmette, Illinois
Best Known For: Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Lost in Translation.
Early-life: William James Murray was born on September 21, 1950, in Wilmette, Illinois. He's the fifth of nine children. His father was a lumber salesman who died when Murray was 17. It was a strict Catholic household - his sister is now a nun. Some of the siblings worked as caddies at the local golf club, with their wages paying for their education. Murray attended Loyola Academy, an all-boys Jesuit school, after which he studied medicine at Regis College in Denver, but dropped out after being arrested for possession of marijuana.
Career: Murray joined Chicago's Second City improvisational comedy team in 1973. He then worked with National Lampoon Radio Hour and joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. He starred in 1979's Meatballs, but his first major film was 1980's Caddyshack - Ghostbusters, Scrooged, Quick Change (which he co-directed) and Groundhog Day followed. In 1998, he worked with director Wes Anderson for the first time on Rushmore, which boosted his career as a dramatic actor. He's subsequently featured in the film-maker's The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr Fox and Moonrise Kingdom. Other notable parts include Kingpin, Lost in Translation (for which he won a Bafta and received an Oscar nomination), Hyde Park on the Hudson, The Monuments Men, Broken Flowers and St Vincent.
Quote: "There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24-hour job right there."
Trivia: Murray was bitten by the groundhog twice during the filming of Groundhog Day (1993).
Noma Dumezweni (Actor) .. Barbara
Sarah Pidgeon (Actor) .. Val
Carla Gugino (Actor) .. Elaine
Born: August 29, 1971 in Sarasota, Florida
Best Known For: The Spy Kids movies.
Early-life: Carla was born in Sarasota, Florida, on August 29, 1971. Her parents separated when she was two. She went on to work as a teenage fashion model and took acting lessons. She made her acting debut in a 1988 episode of the sitcom Who's the Boss?
Career: Gugino had a recurring role in the soap opera Falcon Crest and played Michael J Fox's love interest during the first season of the sitcom Spin City. She is perhaps best known for playing family matriarch Ingrid Cortez in three Sky Kids films (2001-2003). She played the title role in short-lived crime drama Karen Sisco and played the lead role in another short-lived project, sci-fi drama Threshold. More recently, she has starred on the big screen in Watchman (2009), Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Sucker Punch (2011), Mr Popper's Penguins (2011) and San Andreas (2015). Her TV credits include recurring roles in Californication, Political Animals, Wayward Pines, and The Brink.
Quote: "As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally."
Trivia: Gugino has a butterfly tattoo on the inside of her left ankle.
Scott McGehee (Director)
David Siegel (Director)

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