November Parwich Film Show:
- Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano,
- winner of 2 Oscars – Best Actor, and Best Cinematography
- voted Best of Film of the Year by many critics including the New York Times
The story, based on the novel Oil, by Upton Sinclair is an epic tale of family, faith, power and oil set on the frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview, who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.
When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there’s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W., to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centres around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday, Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike.
But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value–love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son–is imperilled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil.
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PARWICH MEMORIAL HALL FRIDAY 14th November 7.45PM Entrance free.
Big screen
Silent projection
Hi Fi Sound
Special facilities for those with hearing difficulties, please ask
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