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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.
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| Release Date | 2022-01-14 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 1h 49m |
| Director | Sara Sugarman |
| Producers | Karl Hall, Piers Tempest, Matt Williams, Tom Harberd, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Pauline Burt, Bizzy Day, Peter Hampden, Norman Merry, Martin Owen, Julia Stuart, Sarah Wright |
| Writers | Piers Ashworth, Lorraine King |
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.
— r96sk