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Tony Evans is a deputy head of a primary school, and Emma Kent is a musician, composer and single mother of two daughters, and neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives. It is the story of a friendship that unfolds unexpectedly, one of humour and emotion, of challenge and bravado, of music and dance, transcending the assumptions of a little understood condition. The drama was directed by John Madden and stars Rhys Ifans, Laura Linney, Monica Dolan and Rory Kinnear.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/onwards-and-sideways-37849/", "official_url": "http://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018859/onwards-and-sideways", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/1f70fc226d5d646e19851cef12a7f5c569752ef9f1814816ef28b274d55c214e-1200.webp"}]}