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An anonymous donor gave $5.2 million to help purchase and renovate the 87-year-old movie theater, according to the West Newton Cinema Foundation, a nonprofit formed by residents to save the theater from demolition.
The gift, split in two parts, will put $3.2 million toward the purchase of the theater and an additional contribution of up to $2 million in matching funds to incentivize support from other donors.
Starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, the film is based on a true story about a series of obscene missives that scandalized a small Sussex town in the early 1920s, critic Sean Burns reviews.