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3:55 pm - 6:00 pm, Today on Sky Cinema Comedy HD (522)

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After being taunted by relatives who think they will never have kids, married couple Pete and Ellie Wagner consider the option of adopting a child. However, they get more than they bargained for when they take in a rebellious teen and her two siblings. Director Sean Anders' comedy, starring Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne and Isabela Merced


2018 HD subtitles 16x9 audio-description mature-scenes strong-language rating-with-pin
Comedy Family General Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Mark Wahlberg (Actor) .. Pete
Rose Byrne (Actor) .. Ellie
Isabela Merced (Actor) .. Lizzy
Gustavo Escobar (Actor) .. Juan
Julianna Gamiz (Actor) .. Lita
Octavia Spencer (Actor) .. Karen
Sean Anders (Director)

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Did You Know..

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Mark Wahlberg (Actor) .. Pete
Born: June 05, 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts
Best Known For: Going from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch to Hollywood blockbusters.
Early-life: Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born on June 5, 1971, in Boston, Massachusetts. The youngest of nine children, his mother was a bank clerk and his father a delivery driver. He didn't graduate from high school. He had a troubled youth, but at 13 was in the original line-up of the New Kids on the Block. He quit due to their squeaky-clean image, but achieved his own chart success with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. In the early 1990s, he modelled underwear for Calvin Klein and made a workout video.
Career: Wahlberg's film career kicked off in 1993 with TV movie The Substitute. A year later he made his big-screen debut in flop comedy Renaissance Man. Impressive turns in The Basketball Diaries and Fear made critics realise he was more than just another pop star-turned-actor. It was 1997 drama Boogie Nights that made his name as an actor. By 2000 he was a Hollywood hot property with roles in Three Kings and The Perfect Storm. Although a revamp of Planet of the Apes divided critics, Wahlberg delivered fine turns in The Italian Job remake, Four Brothers, I Heart Huckabees, The Departed and The Fighter. He is also a respected producer, with credits on Entourage, In Treatment, Boardwalk Empire, and How to Make It In America.
Quote: "I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do."
Trivia: Has stated his performance as Max Payne in Max Payne (2008) as his favorite role.
Rose Byrne (Actor) .. Ellie
Born: July 24, 1979 in Balmain, Sydney
Best Known For: Damages.
Early-life: Born Mary Rose Byrne in Balmain, Sydney, on July 24, 1979, to Jane and Robin. She is the youngest of four children. She began taking acting lessons at a young age, joining the Australian Theatre for Young People and later the University of Sydney. In 1999, she studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York.
Career: Byrne was cast in her first film at the age of 13 in Dallas Doll (1994). She went on to star in a number of Australian TV series, including Heartbreak High and Echo Point. She won an award at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in The Goddess of 1967 (2000). Her first appearance in a Hollywood film was a small role in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). Since then, she has starred in Troy (2004), Marie Antoinette (2006), Sunshine (2007), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Insidious (2010) and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), Bridesmaids (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011) and Neighbours (2014). From 2007 until 2012, she played Ellen Parsons in acclaimed TV drama Damages.
Quote: "I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself."
Trivia: Byrne was the face of Max Factor between 2004 and 2006. She is a supporter of UNICEF Australia.
Isabela Merced (Actor) .. Lizzy
Gustavo Escobar (Actor) .. Juan
Julianna Gamiz (Actor) .. Lita
Octavia Spencer (Actor) .. Karen
Born: May 25, 1970 in Montgomery, Alabama
Best Known For: The Help.
Early-life: Octavia Lenora Spencer was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 25, 1970. She has six siblings. Octavia went on to study drama at Auburn University in Alabama. At the age of 19, she worked as an intern on the set of the film The Long Walk Home. She made her film acting debut as a nurse in A Time to Kill (1996).
Career: Spencer has made guest appearances in a number of TV shows, including ER, Chicago Hope, Roswell, The X-Files, Becker, Malcolm in the Middle and Dharma and Greg. She is best known for playing domestic Minny Jackson in The Help (2011), a role that earned her an Oscar and a Golden Globe. More recently, she has starred in Fruitvale Station (2013), Snowpiercer (2013), Get on Up (2014), Black and White (2014) and Insurgent (2015). She had a recurring role in the sitcom Mom.
Quote: "You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfil your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not."
Trivia: Between 1996 and 2013, Spencer played a nurse 16 different times.
Sean Anders (Director)