- Start: Wednesday 16 May - 15:00
- Estimated End: Wednesday 16 May - 16:48
- Rating: 12A
- Auditorium: Great Hall
£7 (£6 conc., £5 child, £4 members)
20:00 screening subtitled for the hard of hearing
You can now pre-order a delicious homemade pizza for just £9 in the Riverside Café ahead of the 8pm evening film screenings.
Director: Saul Dibb.
Writer: Simon Reade (screenplay), R.C. Sherriff (novel)
Stars: Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, Tom Sturridge, Stephen Graham and Paul Bettany.
March, 1918. C-Company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches in northern France led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin). A German offensive is imminent, and the officers (Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge) and their cook (Toby Jones) distract themselves in their dugout with talk of food and their past lives. Stanhope, meanwhile, soaks his fear in whisky, unable to deal with his dread of the inevitable. A young new officer, Raleigh (Asa Butterfield), has just arrived, fresh out of training and abuzz with the excitement of his first real posting – not least because he is to serve under Stanhope, his former school house monitor and the object of his sister’s affections. Each man is trapped, the days ticking by, the tension rising and the attack drawing ever closer…