Films on The Wharf screen in DOLBY(TM)


Pictures Lets Go To the SURROUND SOUND Harry Potter and the Deathly


Hallows Part II (12A) 145 minutes


In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.


Directed by David Yates and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.


The Conspirator (12A) 123 minutes


In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks.


Against the ominous back-drop of post- Civil War Washington, newly qualified lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realises his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son, John. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.


Directed by Robert Redford and starring Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood and Kevin Kline.


The Tree of Life (12A) 139 minutes


This is the story of a family in the 1950’s Midwestern USA following the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Directed by Terrence Malick and starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain.


Beginners (15) 105 minutes


Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who, following 44 years of marriage, came out of the closet at age


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75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavours to love Anna with all the bravery, humour, and hope that his father taught him.


Directed by Mike Mills and starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Melanie Laurent.


Rise of the Planet of the Apes (12A)


105 minutes


Rise of the Planet of the Apes combines fantastic storytelling with the next leap in Visual Effects for an emotional and action packed motion picture experience unlike any other. Man’s arrogance sets off a chain of events that leads to intelligence in apes and a challenge to our place as the dominant species on the planet. Caesar, the first intelligent ape, is betrayed by humans and rises up to lead his species’ spectacular race to freedom and the ultimate showdown with Man. Directed by Rupert Wyatt and starring James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto.


One Day (12A) 108 minutes


After one day together - July 15th, 1988, their college graduation - 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 realise 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.


Directed by Lone Scherfig and starring Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess and Patricia Clarkson.


Zookeeper (PG) 102 minutes


The animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kind-hearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honoured code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide


to teach him the rules of courtship, animal style.


Directed by Frank Coraci and starring Kevin James, Rosario Dawson and Leslie Bibb.


The Guard (15) 96 minutes


Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, and a fondness for prostitutes. He has absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.


Directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle.


The Smurfs (U) 103 minutes


When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours — in fact, smack bang in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.


Directed by Raja Gosnell with the voices of Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria and Sofia Vergara.


Jane Eyre (PG) 121 minutes


Jane Eyre flees Thornfield House, where she works as a governess for wealthy Edward Rochester. The isolated and imposing residence and Mr Rochester’s coldness, have sorely tested the young woman’s resilience, forged years earlier when she was orphaned. As Jane reflects upon her past and recovers her natural curiosity, she will return to Mr Rochester and the terrible secret that he is hiding.


Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell and Judi Dench.


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