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Hurstpierpoint Film Society

The Cinema on the High Street

 

Now Booking

Thursday Night Film

May 24

The Savages (15)

 

Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman are a dream pairing for this darkly comic tale of two siblings dealing with their sickly father.

 

Hoffman's dry and downtrodden delivery compliments her equally witty, but more hysterical tone, as Wendy and Jon Savage, a brother and sister who find themselves unexpectedly and somewaht reluctantly responsible for their ageing father. They decide to put him in a nursing home, putting their already strained family relationships under more stress.

 

This is a powerful, incisive, moving and very funny look at ageing, ailing family dynamics, superbly acted by two of the best in the business.

 

Members booking opens: 27 April 

 

Non Members booking opens: 11 May

 

Sponsored by The Fig Tree

 

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Friday Night Film

8 June 2012

Benda Bilili (12)

 

A documentary about a group of paraplegics and homeless street kids in Kinshasa, who form a band and practise in the local zoo, playing broken or home made instruments might not sound appealing, a bit worthy perhaps. but this is one of the most uplifting, surprising and entertaining films you will ever see.

 

Filled with irresistible music and a group of people facing the hardest of hard times without a shred of self pity or bitterness and suffused with humour.

 

You are challenged not to stand and applaud at the end of the film and then dance down the street.

 

As a BBC review said "...if this story wasn't true, it would be unbvelievable". 

 

Members booking opens:  11 May

 

Non members booking opens: 25 May

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Saturday Cinema

May 26

Monsters Inc (U)

 

A brilliant, all time Pixar classic, Monster Inc tells the story of Mike and Sulley, two friends from the city of Monstropolis.


Monstropolis is powered by the screams of children in our world and Mike and Sulley are top ranked scream generators, who sneak into children’s bedrooms through their wardrobe doors.


But Mike and Sully are actually quite lovable guys and a crisis hits Monstropolis when a child called Boo follows them back when Sulley leaves a door open.

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