THE CROSS BARN, ODIHAM

Cinema

The dates and times of the films for the Winter / Spring 2012 season are shown below. Doors open 45 minutes before performances. All tickets are £5. Tea/coffee and biscuits, and wine are available. Tickets can be purchased from P&K Electrical, Fountains Mall, Odiham. Alternatively, you can call Rowena on 01256 702253 or The Cross Barn on 01256 701803 or email cinema@thecrossbarn.org.uk

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Friday, 20th January, 7.45pm

One Day (12A) starring Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess.

After one day together – July 15th, 1988, the day of their graduation from Edinbirgh University – Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground.

For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself.

Duration: 107 minutes

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Friday, 17th February, 7.45pm

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (15) starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Toby Jones, Tom Hardy and even John Le Carré himself appearing as a Christmas party guest.

This retelling of possibly the most famous of Le Carré’s spy tales is already being hailed as the definitive version.

Set in the bleak, sepia-tinged days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent 'right at the top of the circus' - British Intelligence Services.
For the most part, the action takes place in the grey-suited and wall-papered world of England but we are given brief glimpses of the spy territory in Budapest, Paris and Istanbul.

This is a slow-burn film, full of meaningful looks, pregnant pauses and hints at deeper and more complex plot strands with a build-up of tension and cold war paranoia which culminates in a dramatic if subdued fashion.

Duration: 127 minutes

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Friday, 16th March, 7.45pm

To be decided

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Friday, 20th April, 7.45pm

The Help (12A)

Adapted from Kathryn Stockett’s best selling first novel set in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s.

Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives - and a Mississippi town - upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up - to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories - and as it turns out, they have a lot to say...
Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly - and unwillingly - caught up in the changing times.

Duration: 135 minutes

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