Mumbai, March 28, 2006… Laughter is the best medicine and Star Movies surely recommends it! This April Fools Day, it dedicates its entire line-up featuring fabulous stars and movies with non-stop laugh riots! Watch back-to-back power packed performances from some of Hollywood's leading comedians including Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans and the undisputed winner - Rowan Atkinson on Saturday, April 1st only on Star Movies.
Sat, Apr 1 @ 11:30 a.m.
BEAN
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Peter McNicol, Burt Reynolds, John Mills, Pamela Reed
Bean works as a caretaker at Britain's formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time, but can't because the chairman of the gallery's board defends him. They send him to USA, to the small Los Angeles art gallery instead, where he'll have to officiate at the opening of the greatest US picture ever (called "Whistler's Mother").
Sat, Apr 1 @ 1:25 p.m.
DON'T BE A MENACE TO SOUTH CENTRAL WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD
Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Tracy Cherelle Jones
"Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of a lot of Afro-American movies, for instance "Boyz N the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. A lot of crazy stuff happens, for example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.
Sat, Apr 1 @ 3:05 p.m.
NUTTY PROFESSOR 2: THE KLUMPS
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller
Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy) is engaged to his pretty girlfriend Denise Gaines (Janet Jackson), also a professor. But Buddy Love, his other him from the first movie, tries to stay in his own form for eternity, and therefore he keeps appearing, a thing that makes damage to Klump. Klump tries to destroy Buddy Love forever, but while his plan has failed, and he starts to lose his knowledge and memory, he must do something to prevent the lost of the thing that made Dennis fall in love with him - his wisdom. With the help of his very impolite and rude family, the Klumps, he tries to return his memory and to vanish Buddy Love forever.
Sat, Apr 1 @ 5:15 p.m.
FLUBBER
Starring: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Raymond Barry
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air. I looks like rubber, so he calls it flubber. This film is based on the 1961 Disney classic, "The Absent-Minded Professor.
Sat, Apr 1 @ 7:10 p.m.
LIAR LIAR
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Tilly, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper
The truth shall set you free -- or get you into a heap of trouble! Fletcher Reede (Carrey) is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max (Justin Cooper) blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish -- that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish miraculously comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset -- his mouth -- has suddenly become his biggest liability! Havoc ensues as Fletcher tries to keep his practice afloat and his ex-wife Audrey (Maura Tierney) from taking their son and moving to Boston.
So get set for some fun and excitement and start off the month with non-stop laughs with "Fabulous Fools", this April Fools Day, Saturday, April 1st on STAR Movies.
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In Mumbai
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STAR (India) Ltd.
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