It was quite an adventure getting to this movie. I was in my usual seat (yes, folks tend to navigate to the same seat each week) with popcorn in hand. At the point I thought the movie should be starting (7 PM) the projectionist announced there would be a ten minute delay. The files for the movie were corrupted so had to be reloaded and decoded before we could begin. After what seemed like more than ten minutes (I don’t wear a watch) there was a further announcement that it would be about fifteen more minutes but they would show a couple of shorts while we waited.

They showed two short films – both about the Patricia Theatre. I had seen either all or parts of them on the computer but it was nice to see them on the big screen. After the films were over we were told that running the two films slowed down the progress on the “real film” so it would be another ten minute wait. We got a brief lesson on how the theatre gets their movies and the process they have to go through to download and decode them.

Finally at 8:30, with only five of us left in the theatre, the movie started.

The show was worth the wait, if only because I wouldn’t have been able to come back another time. It wasn’t fun to watch as two separating parents get on with their individual lives. They fight constantly and their young 12-year old son is most affected. There is no happy ending here – in fact the ending is left pretty much in the viewer’s control.