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 I don’t need to be a future seeing ‘Pre-Cog’ named Agatha to see something lovely in the future for UK TV viewers this coming weekend. Or do I….? No, I just need to be a TV guide reading Pre-Bed person in England 
This coming Sunday night (16th March) BBC One gives us it’s annual airing of the Tom Cruise-led sci-fi action movie Minority Report. Last shown by ‘Auntie’ in May 2013, it starts a little late for those of us with jobs to go to in the morning and even later if you live north of the border in Scotland. Is this why you want independence, so you can schedule Kathryn Morris movies when you want?
Statuesque (because he’s at least as big as some statues such as the Oscars) Tom is John Anderton, a cop in a future with a set of three people (the ‘Pre-Cogs’) blessed with an ability to see visions of crimes yet to happen. It’s the job of John and co. to stop those crimes before they happen. They obviously altered the laws in this crime-free utopia to make incarcerating innocent people (they’ve been stopped from committing the crime after all) OK with everyone. They couldn’t possibly allow such things to happen in the present…
Kathryn stars as Lara, the estranged wife of John. That’s her above with the short brown hair. The reason for their separation, the loss of their young son to a child snatcher, is what drove John to take this job. John needs help after being framed for murder by the very system he’s working for. He turns to his ex.
First released in 2002, Minority Report pre-dates Kathryn’s work on Paycheck and Cold Case by a year. Co-starring Max von Sydow (The Exorcist), Samantha Morton (In America) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges), it became a hugely successful film around the world with box-office takings of over $300m. KM UK has a comprehensive set of HD screencaps and promo image above in the Gallery already.
Sunday, BBC One at 23:25 in England and Wales. Delayed by local sports coverage the Scots will have to wait another 55 minutes. Full details on the BBC website here.
 Oh, oh! I think the KM UK time machine (the KARDIS? not be konfused with a kardashian!) must be broken. It’s started moved in space as well as time, and seems to have turned into a teleport device like The Fly! Something has gone horribly, albeit beautifully, wrong! Abort! Abort!
We entered 27 Feb 2003 - Minority Report DVD Launch into the control panel and we’ve ended up in… Spain of all places. And we don’t have a ‘Cruise’ in front of us. We’ve got a ‘Cruz’. That’s an even shorter ‘Cruise’ (there was no way we were getting through this without a height joke). Joking aside, it’s Mónica Cruz, younger sister of Penélope who, I understand, was in a relationship with Tom at this time. In keeping with the plot of Minority Report seeing the two ladies together like that I have a vision of a future crime or two being committed. I can’t be in the minority with that (see what I did there?) 😮
Kathryn starred in Minority Report as Lara Clarke, the estranged wife of Tom’s John Anderton character. The loss of their son is a key element of the story and Kathryn plays an important role in the later stages. The very successful Steven Spielberg-directed sci-fi movie, based on a short story by Philip K Dick, also stars Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton and Colin Farrell.
One last thing: who is that dummy on the right?
13 photos of Kathryn and Mónica in Madrid to promote the VHS and DVD launch of Minority Report in Spain are now the KM UK Gallery.
We will no doubt be returning to both 2003 and Minority Report in the future.
  
 Fellow UK-ite Ednasharon has used online opinion gatherer SodaHead to ask what must be one of the simplest questions ever:
Which stars from Minority Report, you like the best?
Grammatically it leaves a few questions to answer but you get the gist.
Surely their can only be one answer. Can’t there? Apparently not. Ednasharon believes there are 7! It must be one of those multiple choice questions where there is only a single correct answer. Along with the right answer there will be several very plausible but wrong ones, and there is usually an obviously silly answer. In this case it must be “Max von Sydow” because that is clearly a made up name
Let’s get this question answered for Ednasharon. She needs to know.
You can see the question and give the correct answer (it’s ‘Kathryn Morris’ by the way) on SodaHead HERE.
I feel compelled to point out that Ednasharon claims to be a retired, straight, 6′ 11″, 22 year-old, college graduate, with no kids, and is looking for dating (she lurks in the bushes?). Make of that what you will.
It is not often that examples of Kathryn’s work get aired on the main TV networks here in the UK. When they do we try and make a bit of fuss about them here on KM UK. Two on one day is almost unheard of, even if one them is just about the smallest guest starring role possible.
This Saturday (11th May 2013) those in the UK can get a double dose of Kathryn booking-ending the day. For this reason we are calling Saturday British Kathryn Morris Day. Of course on KM UK every day is a KM Day.
Very late on Friday, at 12:50am when it is technically Saturday, Channel 4 are showing the the romdramedy (that’s romantic comedy drama) As Good As It Gets. The 1997 movie starring Helen Hunt (Mad About You) and Jack Nicholson (Batman) is one of Kathryn’s earlier film roles and very, very brief. She’s on screen for less than 10 seconds and has no dialogue. You do get a real sense of the character “Psychiatric Patient” in that time though. She’s a little jumpy. The other 8330 seconds are worth watching too.
To complete the day the BBC dusts off Minority Report for the first time in 13 months. Here Kathryn has a more substantial role, not that that is too difficult in comparison :-), as the wife of Tom Cruise’s main character in this Steven Spielberg directed sci-fi action film from 2002. John (Tom) and Lara (Kathryn) are estranged, a situation caused by the death of their son some years before. Tom works as a police office for a special squad that prevent major crimes (primarily murders) happening with advanced warning from a set of triplets that can see the future. When John is implicated in a murder he goes on the run to clear his name.
So that’s 00:50 on Channel 4 and 23:50 on BBC1 this Saturday. If you can, enjoy British Kathryn Morris Day UK.
It’s been nearly three years since BBC last broadcast the Steven Spielberg directed, Tom Cruise starring, sci-fi action film Minority Report. It formed the basis of this site’s first “Media Alert”, posts that notify UK readers of appearances of Kathryn work.
Normally the film appears on BBC 1, which would mean an HD broadcast for the first time, but this year it gets bumped over to BBC 2 and not simultaneously shown on BBC HD. Hang your head in shame Auntie 
Oh well. BBC 2 this coming Friday (aka Good Friday), 6th of April 2012 at 11:15pm (11:40pm in Scotland). Full details can be found on the BBC website HERE. I understand that some of our neighbours on the continent may be able to see this as well
To mark the event I’ve added a large-sized still (show above) of Kathryn in the film to the Gallery.
Based on a Philip K Dick story and released in 2002, Minority Report is about John Anderson and his fight to prove his own innocence after being identified as a future killer by the Pre-Crimes Police squad he works for. Kathryn plays John’s estranged wife who he turns to for help. Kathryn’s role is relatively small, Samantha Morton takes the more prominent co-star role, but it is important, especially towards the end.
A countdown to the BBC 2 showing on Friday:
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