PREVIEW: Save The Cinema (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Samantha Morton (In America), Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), Tom Felton (A United Kingdom), Adeel Akhtar (The Nest), Colm Meaney (Con Air), Susan Wokoma (Enola Holmes), Erin Richards (That Good Night), Owain Yeoman (The Belko Experiment), Rhod Gilbert (film debut), Dora Davis (The King’s Man), Joe Hurst (The Dig), Thaer Al-Shayei (Diwrnod Hollol Mindblowing Heddiw), Fflyn Edwards (film debut), Harry Luke (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sara Sugarman (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen), director; Piers Ashworth (Fisherman’s Friends), writer; Karl Hall (Attack of the Adult Babies), Piers Tempest (Military Wives) and Matt Williams (Twist), producers; Hamish Doyne-Ditmas (Two Young Adults), cinematographer; John Wilson (Me Before You), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1993, hairdresser and theatre enthusiast Liz Evans (Morton) campaigns to save the beloved Lyric Theatre in her hometown of Camarthen, Wales from closing down, which eventually draws the attention of Hollywood…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This good-natured British comedy-drama explores the courageous efforts to stop a beloved film-showing establishment from closure, which should serve as a poignant reminder of the importance of the big screen experience at this point in history.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 14TH JANUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON SKY CINEMA AND NOW

 

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