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14/01/2022 Drama, Comedy 1h 49m
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A future worth fighting for.

Overview

The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre from closure. Alongside then Mayor of Carmarthen Richard Goodridge, they enlisted the help of Steven Spielberg, securing a special premiere of Jurassic Park.

  1. Sara Sugarman

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Samantha Morton

    Liz Evans

  2. Tom Felton

    Richard Goodridge

  3. Jonathan Pryce

    Mr. Morgan

  4. Owain Yeoman

    David Evans

  5. Susan Wokoma

    Dolly

  6. Jason Hughes

    Aled

  7. Rhod Gilbert

    Mr. Powell

  8. Thaer Al-Shayei

    Mr. Hopkins

  9. Joe Hurst

    Huw Evans

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Reviews

A review by r96sk
Written by r96sk on 2022-07-14
A pretty cool true story, but the film itself? Rather poor.

'Save the Cinema' is simply too on the nose for my liking, it's cringey in a fair few bits and even pretentious in others. It does have a good cast, though that aside it struggles to get away from the fact that it feels like a made-for-television Christmas-esque movie - literally so with the plot.

Samantha Morton, Jonathan Pryce and Tom Felton are as solid as you'd expect, though the Welsh accents kept taking me out of it - Pryce was born in Wales admittedly, yet even his accent sounded off... might just be me though. I...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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