"Each week, unemployed, agoraphobic Evie somehow finds the wherewithal to transform her garage into a spectacular film set. For a screening of Alien, this one-woman Secret Cinema wallpapers it with tinfoil and hazard tape and fills it with smoke, strip lights and acres of aluminium ducting. For The Wizard of Oz, it's floor-to-ceiling emerald gauze, gingham curtains and dozens of human head-sized flowers. For The Shawshank Redemption, bars, laundry and personalised prison-style posters line the walls."
"When Evie's best friend and most reliable film club companion Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan) reveals he's moving to Bristol for work, Suz panics, fearing Evie will lose her raison d'etre. She decides to put a manically positive spin on the news by hastily arranging a prosecco toast to Noa, during which she reads out a depressing poem Evie wrote about being a ghost when she was eight."
Aimee Lou Wood co-created Film Club with Ralph Davis and plays Evie, an unemployed, agoraphobic woman in Manchester who rarely leaves her mother's house after a nervous breakdown. Evie escapes through a weekly movie night in the garage, where she transforms the space into elaborate, film-specific sets—tinfoil and hazard tape for Alien, emerald gauze and oversized flowers for The Wizard of Oz, and prison bars and laundry for The Shawshank Redemption. Evie lives with sister Izzie (Liv Hill) and an excruciatingly positive mother, Suz (Suranne Jones), whose attempts to keep appearances cause embarrassment. When Evie's friend Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan) announces a move to Bristol, Suz stages a prosecco toast and reads a childhood poem that humiliates Evie.
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