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Director
Lenny Abrahamson
Credits
Producers: Ed Guiney, David Gross Script: Emma Donoghue
Principal Cast
Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H. Macy
Category
Feature
This film was released 15th January 2016, and is no longer screening. Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her own novel, Room tells the story of Ma (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who are being held captive by a man known only as Old Nick, who abducted Ma seven years previously. Jack is unaware that there is a real world outside the room in which he has spent his whole life, but now that he is growing older, Ma feels she must tell him the truth in order to enlist his help in escaping from Old Nick. When this endeavour proves successful, the two must adapt to the confusing world outside. Both leads are superb, with Larson subject to much awards-related speculation since the film won the coveted People’s Choice Award at Toronto, and this undeniably powerful and moving film could not succeed without their remarkable rapport. Notes by Kevin Coyne
118 minutes, Ireland/Canada, 2015, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 20:00
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (DOUBLE BILL)
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 15.15
KIDNAPPED 12:00, 17:00
PERFECT DAYS 14:15, 20:30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:40, 16:00, 18:30, 20:50
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 11:30, 18:20
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