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Super Cinema, November 2024

The Many Faces of Love

 

Thursday, Nov. 7   Places in the Heart.  1984 / 111 min. / PG

In North Texas in 1935, a newly widowed woman with two small children (Sally Field) tries to save her 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder John Malkovich) and an itinerant Black handyman (Danny Glover). The film is very moving, dramatically rich and visually lush. Sally Field won her second Best Actress Academy Award for the role. 

 

Thursday Nov. 14.    The Iron Giant.     1999 / 86 min. / PG

In this cleverly animated feature a Maine boy named Hogarth discovers a giant robot in the woods near his house The problem is that a demented government agent is trying to destroy the Giant at all costs. Hogarth finds a clever hiding place for his friend, and the plot thickens. Voice actors include Harry Connick Jr., Cloris Leachman and Jennifer Anniston. Based on a novel called The Iron Man by the English poet Ted Hughes. He wrote it to comfort his children after the death by suicide of their mother, American poet Sylvia Plath. Directed by Brad Bird.

 

Thursday, Nov. 21.    Planes, Trains & Automobiles.    1987 / 86 min. / PG

Advertising executive Neal (Steve Martin) and shower curtain rings salesman  Del (John Candy) have meet several days before Thanksgiving, Each is trying to get from New York City to Chicago. A series of transportation screw-ups force them to team up, but every conveyance they try falters. The comic chemistry between these two actors has made the film a favorite film for Thanksgiving. Directed by John Hughes.

 

Thursday, November 28 THANKSGIVING DAY No film, Library Closed 

 

Super Cinema, December 2024

Joyful Joyful Joyful

Thursday, December 5            Saving Grace               2000 / 93 min. / R

 

Recently widowed, Grace (Brenda Blethyn) learns her husband has left her deep in debt and in danger of losing everything. Grace is known around Cornwall for having a green thumb, so a friend makes her a lucrative business proposition. Blethyn’s performance is great. She may be known to you as lead detective in the long-running Brit police procedural ‘Vera.’

 

Thursday, December 12          The Holdovers             2023 / 133 min. / R

 

A curmudgeonly prep school teacher (Paul Giamatti) is forced to remain on campus for Christmas break because several students have no place else to go. Also pressed into service is the cook (Da’Vine Joy Randolph). This is a funny, moving and heartwarming film. Randolph deservedly won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance.

Thursday, December 19          The Color Purple: The Musical  2023 / 141 min. / PG-13

 

Alice Walker’s story comes to life—it really does—in this adaptation of the Broadway play, itself adapted from the Spielberg film and Walker’s book. Loving sisters Celie (Fantasia Barrio) and Nettie (Halle Berry) are cruelly separated by Celie’s brute of a husband, “Mister” (Colman Domingo). Treating Celie like a slave, Mister controls her completely, gives her babies away, hides Nettie’s letters to her.  Cruelest of all, this causes Celie to think Nettie is dead. The action swells through years toward redemption for the sisters and others. Don’t miss it. Feel the joy.

 

Thursday, December 26          Winter Recess – No movie this week

 

 

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