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Empire of Light
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[Opens Dec. 9 in theaters.] Wonderful cinematography highlights Sam Mendes' poignant, powerful, touching, well-written, realistic, terrifically acted, bittersweet, star-studded (Sara Stewart, Ron Cook, Mark Ryan, Crystal Clarke, William Chubb, Jim Booth, Spike Leighton, Mark Goldthorp, and Adrian McLoughlin), 113-minute film in which a dance-loving, emotionally-unstable theater manager (Olivia Colman), who is sleeping with her married boss (Colin Firth) in his office and is estranged from her mother (Monica Dolan), develops a connection in 1981 with a bullied, new Black employee (Micheal Ward), who lives with his nurse mother (Tanya Moodie) in an apartment along the English coast, while overseeing an eclectic group of cinema theater coworkers (Toby Jones, Tom Brooke, Hannah Onslow, et al.).

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2022
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