Page To Screen: The Princess Bride

Page to Screen is our brand-new, monthly cinema book club! Each month we'll select a favourite book to film adaptation to feature at a special get-together screening. These monthly events will give you the chance to discuss the book and film with fellow readers, in the the comfortable surroundings of Stella Ranelagh. All tickets include a glass of prosecco and nibbles, so you can pore over the character development while we pour the bubbles.

Drinks reception 18;00, film starts 18:30.

Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred Savage). Falk's character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not limited to fencing, fighting, torture, death, true love, giants, and pirates. Indeed, The Princess Bride offers a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale depicting stable boy-turned-pirate Westley's journey to rescue Buttercup (Robin Wright), his true love, away from the evil prince (Chris Sarandon), whom she had agreed to marry five years after learning of what she had believed to be news of Westley's death. With help from Prince Humperdinck's disgruntled former employee Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), and a very large man named Fezzik (Andre the Giant), the star-crossed lovers are reunited.