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The Substance

The Substance

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  • Runtime: 141 minutes
  • Director: Coralie Fargeat
  • Rating: (18)
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The Substance

Nominated for 5 Oscars including Best Picture


Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid).


She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: THE SUBSTANCE. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn – temporarily – as the gorgeous, twentysomething Sue (Margaret Qualley).


The only rule? Time needs to be split: exactly one week in one body, then one week in the other. No exceptions. A perfect balance. What could go wrong?


Deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical, Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes sensation turns toxic beauty culture inside out with a be-careful-what-you-wish-for fable for the ages. Explosive, provocative and twisted, THE SUBSTANCE marks the arrival of a thrillingly visionary filmmaker.


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  • Runtime: 141 minutes
  • Director: Coralie Fargeat
  • Rating: (18)
  • Film

Times

Event Key:

  • SO Sold Out
  • BF Baby-Friendly Screenings
  • FF Family Fun
  • AD Audio Described
  • HOH Hard of Hearing Subtitled
  • RS Relaxed Screening
  • QA Q+A
  • AS Accessible Screenings
  • BHS Black History Studies
  • TP Talking Pictures
  • OC Oscar Contenders
  • JB James Baldwin at 100
  • S1 Screen 1
  • S2 Screen 2