Richard Curtis brings glamour and gives back

Richard Curtis and Maggie's Oxford

Richard Curtis, famous for rom coms including Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’ Diary and Four Weddings and a Funeral, will introduce About Time at the Phoenix Picture House in Walton Street, this August.

The proceeds from the special preview, held nearly a week before its UK release date, will go to Maggie’s Oxford, a charity at the Churchill Hospital in Headington that supports cancer sufferers and their families.

The charity is building a new £3m centre at the hospital site, which it hopes to open next spring. Curtis, who wrote and directed the film, said: “Maggie’s Centres are absolutely remarkable and it’s an honour to have my film – which does have a particular relevance to their work – used in their service.”

Romantic comedy About Time stars Bill Nighy, Rachel McAdams and Domhnall Gleeson and follows the story of 21-year-old Tim, who is told a family secret by his father – that all men in the family have the ability to relive their past.

Film lovers will have to watch the movie to understand the relevance to Maggie’s Centres.


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