Song Sung Blue (cert 12A). Doors at 7.00pm, film at 7.30pm.

Welcome to Oakwood Cinema - the independent community cinema for Oakwood and Roundhay in Leeds!  Oakwood Cinema is a not-for-profit community cinema showing a film each month (with an interval), with a licensed bar and snacks to make the night an enjoyable social event for all!

THE FILM

Our film for June is Song Sung Blue (cert 12A)

This was one of the more surprising hits of recent months. Based on a true story, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play a couple who in the 1990s formed a Neil Diamond tribute band called Thunder and Lightning which gained great success in their home state of Milwaukee.

We see their beginnings and how their act and their relationship develops, and the film is not afraid to mix comedy with tragedy. Both Jackman and Hudson are excellent in the starring roles, and it helps that they both have terrific singing voices and great stage presence. Indeed, Hudson has been nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA for her performance.

The Guardian gave it a four star review, with Peter Bradshaw writing: “Here is a startlingly strange, undeniably entertaining true-life story from the heartland of American showbusiness; a lovable crowdpleaser whose feelgood flavour won’t prepare you for the way the plot repeatedly and savagely twists like an unsafe fairground ride.”

Song Sung Blue is 2 hours 12 minutes long, plus an interval. 

TICKETS

Tickets are just £6.50 for everyone.  

A booking fee is applied to cover the bank processing fee for purchasing online tickets.

The main doors open at 7.00pm.  The film starts at 7.30pm. (Interval drinks are available.)