Save the Cinema

1/14/20221h 49m

Digital Release (US)

~ 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.

Director:

Sara Sugarman

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

Cast

Samantha Morton

~ as ~

Liz Evans

Tom Felton

~ as ~

Richard Goodridge

Jonathan Pryce

~ as ~

Mr. Morgan

Owain Yeoman

~ as ~

David Evans

Susan Wokoma

~ as ~

Dolly

Jason Hughes

~ as ~

Aled

Rhod Gilbert

~ as ~

Mr. Powell

Thaer Al-Shayei

~ as ~

Mr. Hopkins

Joe Hurst

~ as ~

Huw Evans

Wynne Evans

~ as ~

Singer in Cinema (uncredited)

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Reviews (1)

r96sk
Written 2 year(s) ago
5
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 didn't overly like any of that trio's, or their co-star's tbh, performances though, I just like Morton/Pryce/Felton from others things more than anything.

I wouldn't say this is a bad film, it's just a really lousy one in my opinion. I could see it finding an audience though.