Comedy and drama on the big screen
Adapted from the international bestselling novel of the same name, and set in the Channel Islands, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is screening at the Regent Theatre in Pahiatua.
Starring Lily James (Downton Abbey) as a free-spirited London journalist who travels to the Channel Islands in the aftermath of World War II and while there, forms a life-changing bond with members of the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the wartime Nazi occupation. From the producers of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the film also stars Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Tom Courteney (Doctor Zhivago) and Mathew Goode (Downton Abbey).
Also currently screening at the Regent is the new Kiwi comedy The Breaker Upperers where two best friends Mel (Madeleine Sami) and Jen (Jackie van Beek) set up a small-time business breaking up couples for cash. They’re a platonic, co-dependent couple who keep their cynicism alive by not getting emotionally involved with anybody else. But when they run into an old victim and Mel develops a conscience, their friendship is truly put to the test.
A zany Kiwi comedy which proves Aotearoa’s female talent have their own stories to tell – and are no less hilarious doing so.
Opening next week at the Regent is the comedy Tully, in which Marlo (Charlize Theron), a mother of three including a new-born baby, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to accept the offer at first, Marlo eventually comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes, challenging young nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis).
Also opening next week is another comedy, Life Of The Party where longtime dedicated housewife Deanna (Melissa McCarthy) decides to go back to college after her husband suddenly dumps her. Landing in the same class and school as her daughter, the increasingly outspoken Deanna – now known as Dee Rock – embraces her newly found freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, in a senior year no one ever expected.
June attractions at the Regent include the English drama The Bookshop ,setina small seaside town in England in 1959 where a young woman decides, against ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, and Chappaquiddick, about Senator Edward Kennedy’s involvement in a fatal car accident that claimed the life of a young Democratic strategist, Mary-Jo Kopechne.
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