The highly anticipated thriller THE ROYAL HOTEL, directed by Kitty Green (The Assistant, Casting Jon Benet), co-written by Kitty Green and Oscar Redding (Van Diemen’s Land) and starring Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving and Toby Wallace will open in cinemas across Australia from November 23.

Americans Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town.

Bar owner Billy (Hugo Weaving) and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

THE ROYAL HOTEL  is produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning of See-Saw Films, the Academy and BAFTA Award winning team behind The Power of the Dog, Lion and The King’s Speech, together with Animal Kingdom and The King producer and See-Saw Films’ Head of Film and Television (Aus) Liz Watts, and Scarlett Pictures’ Kath Shelper.

Courtesy of Transmission Films, Sydney Arts Guide has ten in season double passes to see the film. Email the Editor on editor.sydneyartsguide@gmail.com with THE ROYAL HOTEL PROMOTION in the subject heading.

Winners will be advised by email. The passes will be sent out by snail email. Good luck!

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