Dir. Kirk Jones
2025 | 120 mins | British | English
Robert Aramayo, Shirley Henderson, Peter Mullan

Showing Times

• • Fri 17 Oct: 5:40pm
  • Sat 18 Oct: 3.10pm~
  • Sun 19 Oct: 5:10 pm
  • Mon 20 Oct: 5:20 pm
  • Tue 21 Oct: 5:20 pm
  • Wed 22 Oct: 3pm
  • Thu 23 Oct: 3pm

~ Relaxed Screening
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Funny, heartfelt and emphatically moving, I Swear dramatises the true story of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson and his quest to live normally in a world that insisted on calling him different.

Diagnosed aged 15, John’s Tourette’s made him the target of huge misunderstanding in 1980s Britain, and he faced hostility, bullying and occasionally outright violence for much of his youth. Aged 16, he was the subject of BBC TV documentary John’s Not Mad (a Q.E.D. episode that’s still ranked one of the 50 best British docs in national polls) and subsequently became one of the UK’s most passionate advocates for greater awareness and acceptance of Tourette’s, for which work he received an MBE in 2019.

Written and directed by Kirk Jones (Waking Ned, Nanny McPhee) and featuring a deeply committed performance from Robert Aramayo (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) as John alongside supporting turns from Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullan, I Swear promises a powerful look at an astonishing life – taking in the frustration and fatigue of being persistently misunderstood and the wit, grit and resolve that saw Davidson seek to define himself on his own terms.

BBFC Rating
Rated 15 – Very strong language, brief violence, sex references

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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