Meavy Cinema

THE HOLDOVERS

Meavy Parish Hall

Friday 3rd May, 8:00pm

Doors open at 7:30pm, film starts at 8:00pm

Admission £5.00, pay at the door. 

No admission to children under 15.

Certificate: 15       Runtime: 2hr 13min 

Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) -- not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home.

After a few days, only one student holdover remains -- a trouble-making 18-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled. Joining Paul and Angus is head cook Mary (Randolph)-an African American woman who caters to sons of privilege and whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam.

These three very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England. The real journey is how they help one another understand that they are not beholden to their past-they can choose their own futures.

See Cinema.Meavy for more details and trailer.

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Meavy Cinema

THE OLD OAK

Meavy Parish Hall

Friday 7th June, 8:00pm

Doors open at 7:30pm, film starts at 8:00pm

Admission £5.00, pay at the door. 

No admission to children under 15.

Certificate: 15       Runtime: 1hr 53min 

The director Ken Loach has made a name for himself with politically charged films. The Old Oak is no different, and he tackles difficult and sensitive issues with empathy and nuance.

THE OLD OAK is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it's also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips.

But his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian Yara [Ebla Mari] with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes.

See Cinema.Meavy for more details and trailer.

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