PFF: The Roses (15) at the Electric Palace

Bridport Electric Palace

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. THE ROSES is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.

Directed by filmmaker Jay Roach (Bombshell, Meet the Parents), THE ROSES stars Academy Award® and Emmy® winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite, ‘The Crown’) and Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog, ‘Sherlock’) as the feuding couple at the heart of the film, with Emmy® winner Andy Samberg (Palm Springs, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’), Academy Award® winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Belinda Bromilow (‘The Great’), Ncuti Gatwa (‘Doctor Who’), Sunita Mani (‘Glow’), Zoë Chao (Nightbitch), Jamie Demetriou (‘Stath Lets Flat’), and multi-Emmy® winner Kate McKinnon (Barbie, Bombshell) rounding out the cast. With a script penned by Academy Award® and Emmy® nominee Tony McNamara (Poor Things, ‘The Great’), THE ROSES is produced by Emmy® nominee Adam Ackland (‘Patrick Melrose’, The Mauritanian), Leah Clarke (The Mauritanian), Ed Sinclair (‘Landscapers’, Wicked Little Letters), Tom Carver (Wicked Little Letters), Roach, and Emmy® nominee Michelle Graham (Trumbo, Bombshell), alongside executive producers Cumberbatch, Colman, Cáit Collins (The Favourite), Katherine Pomfret (We Live in Time), Michael Adler (‘Criminal Minds’), and Jonathan Adler.

Behind the camera, Roach is joined by Academy Award®-nominated director of photography Florian Hoffmeister (Tár), Academy Award®-nominated production designer Mark Ricker (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Trumbo), editor Jon Poll (Bombshell, Meet the Parents), Emmy® winning composer Theodore Shapiro (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Devil Wears Prada), and costume designer PC Williams (Back to Black).

Saturday 25 October at 8pm

Age Restriction: 15 tbc

Ticket Price: Adult £10.00 / Under 25 £7.50

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901

www.electricpalace.org.uk