Saturday Night

It’s the mid-1970s, and a flipbook of Watergate, Vietnam, and rising counterculture make everything old in America feel broken and everything new feel scary as hell. And now, yet another certainty is about to crack. Because in 90 minutes’ time, live from New York…it’s Saturday Night!

Saturday Night dives headfirst into the frenzied hour-and-a-half before a clutch of unknown, untrained, unruly young comedians took over network television and transformed the culture. Saturday Night Live would go on to become the late-night institution that brought John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and others to our screens. But tonight, it’s barely contained madness backstage, with Lorne Michaels desperately trying to channel the chaos towards a vision even he’s not sure of.

Director Jason Reitman has never made a film like this. Fuelled by the same anarchic energy that drove the show to air, he orchestrates this tour de force as a glorious circus of talent, ambition and appetite for risk, with the clock ticking down to showtime.

2-for-1 tickets for under 25s

BFI Film Academy Recommends presents this 2-for-1 screening delivered by MAC on behalf of Film Hub Midlands, and supported by National Lottery.

Select the Under 25 ticket type and when you get two tickets, the cost of one ticket will be discounted at checkout.

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The screening on Saturday 15 February is part of the 2-for-1 ticket offer.