By Stephen Blease

Published at 11:25, Thursday, 08 January 2009

FILM fans may have been disappointed by the selection of movies on TV at Christmas but Whitehaven Rosehill Theatre’s new season of movies offers something for everyone.

The Rosehill Theatre has just announced its programme for January and February, featuring four popular films including comedy, touching humanity, glamour and gothic horror – and so should appeal to all tastes.

The new season starts next Tuesday with Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (PG), a sophisticated comedy starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams. It tells the story of middle-aged London governess Guinevere Pettigrew, who finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job.

As she seeks a new post she is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of American actress and singer Delysia Lafosse. Can you get a life and discover love, all in one day?

Tuesday January 20 is ideal for a girls’ night out, as Sex and the City (15) returns to the big screen. Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha are all back for the feature film of the TV series, older, wiser and wittier.

On January 27 and 28, the dark tale Jamaica Inn (U), by legendary director Alfred Hitchock, will be showing.

It is an adaptation of a Gothic story by Daphne Du Maurier, starring Maureen O’Hara and Charles Laughton, and tells of the young orphan girl Mary sent to live on the Cornish coast with her Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss, landlords of the fateful Jamaica Inn.

When Mary learns that the inn is the base for a gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocks beneath she finds herself in deadly trouble. Who can she turn to for help? And will she too find herself at the mercy of her uncle’s murderous associates?

The season concludes on February 24 and 25 with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (12A), a stunning adaptation of John Boyne’s best-selling novel.

Set during World War II, it is the story of a friendship between the son of a Nazi and a Jewish boy. It is told through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, who makes friends with the boy on the other side of the camp fence, leading to startling and unexpected consequences.

All films are screened at 7.30pm on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, with an extra matinee showing at 1.30pm on the Wednesday.

Tickets for the evening showings cost £4.50 with concessions £4, while matinee tickets cost £3.50. They are available by calling the box office on 01946 692422.

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