A Pretty fantastic night enjoying films at historic property
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FILM lovers wanting to enjoy a night at the flicks in the great outdoors are being invited to the grand surroundings of a South Derbyshire stately home.
The Summer Nights Outdoor Film Festival is heading to Calke Abbey for four nights in August.
The historic building in Ticknall will be hosting a screening of Pretty Woman on Thursday, August 2, and horror film IT on Saturday, August 4. It will also be also showing The Greatest Showman staring Hugh Jackman, on Friday and Sunday, August 2 and August 4, but those showings have now sold out.
Bosses said The Greatest Showman had been the quickest selling film to date.
PRETTY WOMAN
The hit 1990 romantic comedy stars Richard Gere as the wealthy businessman Edward and Julia Roberts as down-onher-luck prostitute Vivian.
Edward hires Vivian for the weekend, and so their love story begins. The two get closer, only to discover there are significant hurdles to overcome as they try to bridge the gap between their very different worlds.
The film was directed by Garry Marshall and was the third highest-grossing film of 1990.
IT
This American supernatural horror film revolves around seven young outcasts in Derry, Maine. They are about to face their worst nightmare when they are forced to take on an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town’s children.
During one terrifying summer, the children band together as the friends must overcome their own personal fears to battle the murderous, bloodthirsty clown known as Pennywise.
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
The 2017 American musical is inspired by the story of PT Barnum’s and his creation of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, as well as the lives of its star attractions.
The Greatest Showman celebrates the birth of showbusiness and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
It stars Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson and Zendaya and was directed by Michael Gracey.
Those willing to travel a bit further can head to Kedleston Hall, a National Trust property near Derby, for its outdoor screening of the war film Dunkirk this Friday or hit musical Moulin Rouge on Saturday.
Fans who want to get another fix of Dirty Dancing can catch the 80s classic at Hardwick Hall, near Chesterfield, on Saturday, August 18.