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A Bunch Of Amateurs (15) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: late 9.00

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

Credit card tel: 0871 224 4007

Director: Andy Cadiff

Cast: Burt Reynolds, Camilla Arfwedson, Samantha Bond, Ty Davies, Charles Durning, Derek Jacobi

Year: 2008

Country: UK

Running time: 96mins

Aging Hollywood actor Jefferson Steel has no work and is desperate to revive his flagging career. Badgering his Los Angeles agent for a high profile comeback, Jefferson is delighted to land the Holy Grail of stage roles: King Lear in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at Stratford-upon-Avon. Crossing the Atlantic, the Hollywood action gets a rude awakening when he discovers that he has actually been contracted to tread the boards with the amateur dramatic society based in the close-knit village of Stratford St John in leafy Suffolk.

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Australia (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: 3.45 7.40

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

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Director: Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter, David Gulpilil, Ben Mendelsohn

Year: 2008

Country: US/Australia

Running time: 165mins

Lady Sarah Ashley leaves behind the finery of the English aristocracy to travel to the Australian outback and confront her husband Lord Ashley on the Faraway Downs cattle station, where he spends most of his time. She finds a huge property in financial disarray, on the brink of takeover by scheming King Carney, who controls most of the local cattle market. With the help of a swarthy drover, Sarah decides to challenge Carney's monopoly by herding 500-strong of prize cattle all the way to port in the face of stiff resistance from her rival's right-hand man and heir apparent, Neil Fletcher.

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Australia (Parent And Baby Screening) (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Wed mat 12.10

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

Credit card tel: 0871 224 4007

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter, David Gulpilil, Ben Mendelsohn

Year: 2008

Country: US/Australia

Running time: 165mins

Lady Sarah Ashley leaves behind the finery of the English aristocracy to travel to the Australian outback and confront her husband Lord Ashley on the Faraway Downs cattle station, where he spends most of his time. She finds a huge property in financial disarray, on the brink of takeover by scheming King Carney, who controls most of the local cattle market. With the help of a swarthy drover, Sarah decides to challenge Carney's monopoly by herding 500-strong of prize cattle all the way to port in the face of stiff resistance from her rival's right-hand man and heir apparent, Neil Fletcher.

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Bedtime Stories (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: 12.20 (Fri-Mon) 3.00 5.40 8.10

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

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Director: Adam Shankman

Cast: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Teresa Palmer, Jonathan Pryce, Lucy Lawless, Russell Brand

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 99mins

Hotel handyman Skeeter Bronson may not be the huge success he always hoped to be, but he is devoted to his sister Wendy and her two adorable kids, Patrick and Bobbi. The imaginative uncle agrees to tell the youngsters bedtime stories to help them drift off to sleep, inventing tall tales full of magic, mystery and daring deeds. When elements from these stories, suggested by the tykes, unexpectedly impact on real life, Skeeter realises that his fairy-tales are coming true and he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with the two excited youngters.

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Changeling (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: 8.15

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

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Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Jason Butler Harner

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 141mins

Single mother Christine Collins works as a supervisor at the telephone exchange to keep a roof over the head of her nine-year-old son Walter. One weekend, Christine is unexpectedly called into work and when she returns home, Walter has disappeared without trace. After months of fearing the worst, Captain JJ Jones contacts Christine with incredible news: Walter has been found safe in a neighbouring state. The jubilant mother races to the train station to meet her son, except the boy who claims to be Walter is an impostor. With the press swarming, the mother is forced against her will to take in the boy as if he were her son.

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City Of Ember (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Fri-Mon mat 11.00

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

Credit card tel: 0871 224 4007

Director: Gil Kenan

Cast: Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau, Toby Jones, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mary Kay Place, Harry Treadaway, Liz Smith

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 94mins

Deep beneath the earth's surface lies the city of Ember, a crowded metropolis powered by a massive generator for the past 200 years, which is slowly falling into eternal darkness. Students Lina and Doon discover coded papers that could save Ember and its inhabitants. Thus Lina and Doon embark on the adventure of a lifetime to restore light to their beloved city.

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Four Christmases (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Fri-Sun 6.00

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

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Director: Seth Gordon

Cast: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 88mins

Happily unmarried couple Brad and Kate have been together for years and love one another's company - so much so, that every December 25, they make their excuses so they can spend the holiday season together in an exotic location, soaking up the sun. Unfortunately, this year, thick fog traps Brad and Kate at San Francisco airport where a local TV news crew follows their plight and reveals to their respective families, who are all watching, that they have nowhere to go for the holidays. Reluctantly, the lovebirds must visit their divorced parents and respective partners for four Christmas celebrations, each more deranged than the last.

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Inkheart (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Action)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Fri-Mon 10.40 1.20 3.40 6.00 (Mon); Tue-Thu 3.40 6.00 (not Tue)

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

Credit card tel: 0871 224 4007

Director: Iain Softley

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Eliza Bennett, Andy Serkis, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Sienna Guillory, Rafi Gavron

Year: 2008

Country: Ger/UK/US

Running time: 106mins

Doting father Mo Folchart has kept a terrible secret from his daughter Meggie since she was three-years-old: he is a Silvertongue and inadvertently sent his beloved wife Teresa into the pages of a book called Inkheart. Ever since, Mo has scoured second-hand bookshops for a copy, desperate to undo his misdeeds. Stumbling upon a tatty, old copy of Inkheart, Mo finally believes he could be reunited with Teresa only for the past to catch up with him. Joining forces with a stranger called Dustfinger, Mo risks everything to outwit the villain Capricorn and his goons, and reunite his fractured family.

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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Fri-Mon 10.50 11.50 1.10 2.20 3.20 4.35 6.50; Tue-Thu 2.20 3.20 (not Tue) 4.35 6.50

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

Credit card tel: 0871 224 4007

Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Baldwin, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Cedric The Entertainer

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 89mins

Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the hypochondriac giraffe and Gloria the hippopotamus are finally ready to leave the exotic island of Madagascar and return to the plush surroundings of New York's Central Park Zoo. Boarding a rickety plane with ring-tailed lemur King Julien the 13th, his second-in-command Maurice and the penguins - Private, Rico, Skipper and Kowalski - the animals crash-land shy of their destination, ending up on the plains of Africa where Alex comes mane-to-mane with his long lost father Zuba.

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Nights In Rodanthe (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Romance)

Odeon, Swansea Parc Tawe, Swansea, West Glamorgan, SA1 2BA

Tel: 0871 224 4007

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Wed mat 12.00

Price: £6.45, Mon-Fri before 4pm £5.20, concs £4.40, Premier Seats £6.40 & £7.45

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Director: George C Wolfe

Cast: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis, Becky Ann Baker, Scott Glenn

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 97mins

Facing major decisions in her life, Adrienne Willis elects to clear her head by taking care of a friend's inn for the weekend in the tiny North Carolina coastal community of Rodanthe. The promise of peace and quiet is short-lived with news of an impending storm, which could trap Adrienne in town for longer than expected. As she battens down the hatches, Adrienne is stunned to meet the inn's one and only guest, Dr Paul Flanner, whose personal life is also in turmoil. With the storm raging around them, these two lost souls cling to one another for emotional and physical comfort, consequently sparking a passionate dalliance that will change their lives forever.

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