Competition: Exclusive ‘Beginners’ Preview Screening Tickets Plus Director Q&A

Posted in Competitions, Film
By Sam Bathe on 5 Jul 2011

Last chance to enter! Get your answers in today for a chance of winning a pair of tickets to an exclusive preview screening of Beginners plus Q&A with writer/director Mike Mills.

From writer/director Mike Mills comes Beginners, a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments.

Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Golden Globe Award nominee Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds) only months after his father Hal Fields (Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer) has passed away.

This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend, Andy (Goran Visnjic, ER). The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavours to love Anna with all the bravery, humour, and hope that his father taught him.

At once deeply personal and universal, Beginners was inspired by Mike Mills’ own father and is meant in turn to inspire everyone weighing their chances and choices in life and love. Beginners hits cinemas across the UK on July 22nd.

TO BE IN WITH THE CHANCE OF WINNING A PAIR OF TICKETS, SIMPLY ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:

NAME THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD NOMINEE ACTOR WHO STARS IN BEGINNERS:

A) EWAN MCGREGOR
B) SEAN PENN
C) COLIN FIRTH

SIMPLY EMAIL YOUR ANSWER TO COMPETITIONS@FANTHEFIREMAGAZINE.COM. DEADLINE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, 05/07/11.

Terms & Conditions:
Competition open to UK residents only. No cash alternative is available. Screening + Q&A will be taking place in London on 11th July, winners must be available to attend on that day. A Universal Picture © 2011 Universal Studios. All rights reserved.

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