30th Anniversary Film Festival: Gulliver’s Travels (PG)

2nd August 2025 2:00pm (Doors open at 1:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

2010 Gulliver’s Travels (PG)

Another famous popular story.The film is very loosely based on Jonathan Swift’s 18th century novel of the same name.

Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) has been working in the mail room of a New York daily newspaper for the past ten years.One day, after having finally had enough, he decides to declare his love to the beautiful Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet), the newspaper's travel editor and one of Gulliver's only friends, only to instead lose his nerve and tell her that he'd like to try his hand at writing a column. Darcy sends him on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle. There, Gulliver becomes shipwrecked and ends up on the island of Liliput, where he is twelve times taller than the tallest man.

Panned by critics and failed at the box office in North America, it earned $237.4 million worldwide.

Starring: Jack Black; Amanda Peet; Emily Blunt; Chris O’Dowd; Billy Connolly; Jason Segal; James Corden; Catherine Tate

Directed by Robert Letterman

Running Time: 81 minutes

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There is a former inn that overlooks Whitehaven harbour known by many as Jonathan Swift’s house.But the reason for the association is still the subject of argument.However there is no doubt that as an infant Swift was brought to Whitehaven and surely the view of the bustling town from the cliffs was likely to have lodged in his young mind. …. www.lakestay.co.uk/swift.html.