Save the Cinema

Save the Cinema

2022
★★★☆☆ 6.2/10
⏱️ 109 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
DramaComedy
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.

User Reviews

r96sk
★ 5/10
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.
July 14, 2022

Crew

Director
Sara Sugarman
Writer
Piers Ashworth, Lorraine King
Producer
Pauline Burt, Bizzy Day, Peter Hampden

Production

Sky Cinema, FAE Film and Television, Head Gear Films, Kreo Films, Metrol Technology, Future Artists Entertainment