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Hunky Dory  (15)   110 mins          Where can I see this film?

Director: Marc Evans Writer: Laurence Coriat Cinematography: Charlotte Bruus Christensen Production Design: Jacqueline Abrahams Music: Joby Talbot

“I’m gonna put on a show that William Shakespeare and David Bowie would be proud of...” - Vivienne

Take a trip to a steaming Swansea comprehensive school during the long hot summer of 1976, where keen drama teacher Vivienne (Minnie Driver) fights heat and teenage apathy to put on an end of year musical version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. To engage her students, she uses hits of the time, performed by the fresh young cast led by rising star, Aneurin Barnard. Robert Pugh (Silent Witness) is the gruff Headmaster who ends up as Prospero...

“Sentimental, sweet-natured and daft as a brush... likeable” – the Guardian

Official trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW1ck_ce6PU

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