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Fugitive Pieces (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: 8.00

Director: Jeremy Podeswa

Cast: Stephen Dillane, Rade Serbedzija, Rosamund Pike, Nina Dobrev, Ed Stoppard, Robbie Kay

Year: 2007

Country: Can/Gre

Running time: 106mins

As the Nazis invade his hometown of Biskupin, little Jakob watches in horror as the Germans decimate his entire family, including his beloved sister Bella. The boy flees into the woods where Greek archaeologist Athos takes the frightened youngster under his wing and spirits him away to safety on his island home. When the conflict ends, Athos moves to Toronto where Jacob forges ties with the Jewish immigrant family next door and their studious son, Ben. Many years later, Jakob seeks the truth as a writer, with a beautiful and vivacious wife, Alex. However, he is haunted by the ghosts of the past.

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Gigantic (15) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: 8.30

Director: Matt Aselton

Cast: Ed Asner, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Dano, Jane Alexander, John Goodman, Ian Roberts, Robert Stanton

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 98mins

Twenty-eight year-old Brian Weathersby has nurtured a lifelong dream to adopt a Chinese baby and is using his fulltime job as a mattress salesman to make the fantasy a reality. Following a visit from boorish customer Al Lolly, Brian meets eccentric art collector Happy and is instantly smitten. As the young couple tentatively fans the flames of mutual attraction, Brian contends with his overbearing father and a homeless man, who seems intent on beating him up.

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Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (U) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: 2.45 (Sat/Sun) 5.15 7.30 (not Thu)

Director: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier

Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck

Year: 2009

Country: US

Running time: 94mins

Sid the sloth yearns for a family of his own so he 'appropriates' a nest of dinosaur eggs. When the mother dinosaur spirits away Sid and her hatched brood, Manny the woolly mammoth and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger embark on a rescue mission accompanied Manny's partner, Ellie, who is preparing to give birth to their first mini-mammoth. Mischievous possums Crash and Eddie tag along for the ride.

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Lakeland On Film (U) (Category: Cinemas, General)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: Thu 7.30

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Looking For Eric (15) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: 6.00

Director: Ken Loach

Cast: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop, Gerard Kearns, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Stefan Gumbs

Year: 2009

Country: UK

Running time: 116mins

Eric Bishop is a postman whose life went into free-fall the day he ran out on his childhood sweetheart, Lily. Abandoned by his wife and forced to singlehandedly raise his two rebellious stepsons, Ryan and Jess, Eric is teetering on the brink of a mental breakdown, with only his workmates including Meatballs to keep him sane. After the latest fiery encounter with his boys, Eric takes one of Ryan's joints and begins talking to his favourite poster of Manchester United legend Eric Cantona, searching for inspiration. Miraculously, the footballer appears to Eric and becomes the postman's invisible friend, guiding the single father on a journey back to self-redemption.

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My Sister's Keeper (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: 5.30

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Cast: Alex Baldwin, Sofia Vassilieva, Evan Ellingson, Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric, Abigail Breslin, Joan Cusack

Year: 2009

Country: US

Running time: 109mins

Brian Fitzgerald and his wife Sara are blissfully happy with their son Jesse and two-year-old daughter Kate. Their lives change forever when they discover that Kate has leukaemia and the couple makes a controversial decision: to conceive another child, a genetic match, in order to save Kate's life. Sara gives up her job as a high-powered attorney to preside over the family and she watches in awe as youngest child Anna forms a close bond with Kate (Sofia Vassilieva). Visits to hospital for various procedures become a normal part of childhood until Anna reaches the age of 11 and announces that she no longer wants to be a guinea pig, hiring lawyer Campbell Alexander to plead her case.

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Public Enemies (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: 5.30 8.00 9.30 (not Thu)

Director: Michael Mann

Cast: Johnny Depp, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Dorff, Christian Bale, Stephen Graham, David Wenham

Year: 2009

Country: US

Running time: 139mins

Charismatic bank robber John Dillinger becomes a major Depression-era celebrity by outwitting J Edgar Hoover and his fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation. So Hoover labels Dillinger America's first ever Public Enemy Number One and pledges to capture the robber as a demonstration of his department's ability, enlisting tenacious agent Melvin Purvis to lead the nationwide hunt.

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The Hangover (15) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: 8.30

Director: Todd Phillips

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, Ken Jeong, Justin Bartha, Rachael Harris

Year: 2009

Country: US

Running time: 99mins

Two days before he walks down the aisle with his beautiful bride, Doug heads for Las Vegas with his three best buddies, Phil, Stu and Alan. Several hours of heavy drinking and wild partying ensue and in the morning, Phil, Stu and Alan wake with pounding headaches and no memory of events of the night before. A trashed hotel suite and the presence of a mystery baby are the first signs that something is dreadfully wrong; the absence of the groom-to-be is a close second. As the three friends retrace their alcohol-fuelled steps, they realise how much trouble they are in.

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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Action)

Zeffirellis Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DN

Tel: 01539 433845

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: 2.30 (Sat/Sun) 5.30

Director: Michael Bay

Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Rainn Wilson, Matthew Marsden, Julie White, Kevin Dunn

Year: 2009

Country: US

Running time: 149mins

Having defeated power-hungry Megatron and his Decepticon minions, high school student Sam Witwicky prepares for his first year at college, bidding farewell to his robot chum Bumblebee, beautiful girlfriend Mikaela and parents. In the midst of classes, Sam begins to have visions of hieroglyphs and as these hallucinations become more frequent and intense, the young man senses that Autobot leader Optimus Prime has been keep secrets from him.

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Let The Right One In (Lat Den Ratte Komma In) (15) (Category: Cinemas, Horror)

Lonsdale Alhambra Cinema St. Johns Street, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5AG

Tel: 01768 772195

Dates: 03/07/2009 to 09/07/2009

Show times: Mon 8.30

Price: £4.50 & £5.50, child £3.50 & £4.50, family £14

Credit card tel: 01768 772195

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Cast: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg

Year: 2008

Country: Swe

Running time: 114mins

Twelve-year-old loner Oskar lives on an '80s housing estate in Stockholm with his divorced mother and is bullied mercilessly at school by Conny. Escaping for fresh air in the courtyard one night, Oskar meets the strange yet alluring Eli, a little girl of a similar age who seems just as lonely and disenchanted with the world. She lives with her guardian Hakan, who often goes out late, leaving the girl alone in their apartment. Oskar senses there is something different about his new friend and puts his finger on it when he asks her tentatively, "Are you a vampire?" She seems unsurprised, responding: "I live off blood, yes." As the relationship between the two children deepens, Oskar finds the courage to stand up to the bullies.

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