In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary life.
(2015) Starring Blake Lively and Michiel Huisman. A young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into. Rated PG-13; 112 min.
(2015) Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Rick Springfield. In this unconventional yet heartwarming family drama, an aging rocker returns home to her estranged family after years on the road following her dreams, and must face the music as she tries to make things right with her loved ones. Rated PG-13; 101 min.
Discussion and refreshments to follow screening.
(1997) Starring Janeane Garafalo, Denis Leary and Milo O"Shea. Marcy, a worker in the re-election campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of the senator, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors. Rated R; 97 min.
(1999) Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, "Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time." Rated PG; 118 min.
(1964) Starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrsion. A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. Rated G; 170 min.
(2001) The story of brilliant mathematician John Nash, on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. Now, only his devoted wife can help him in this powerful story of courage, passion and triumph. Rated PG-13; 135 min.
Discussion and refreshments to follow screening.
2015) Starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney. A now-retired Holmes, his steel-trap mind starting to fade with old age, lives out his golden years in the late 1940s. He returns from a trip to Japan searching for a plant that could slow the aging process and help him regain the faculties he knows he's lost. While there, he witnessed first-hand the result of America's bombing of Hiroshima, which has put him in a contemplative state. He lives with his devoted housekeeper Mrs.
(2006) Starring Ioan Gruffuld and Benedict Cumberbatch. The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. Rated PG-13; 118 min.
(2014) Starring Christopher Plummer and Shirley MacLaine. The story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love. After losing his wife, Fred feels disturbed, confused and alone, so his daughter helps move him into a small apartment where he meets Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into Fred"s life like a whirlwind, determined to teach him that the time he has left to live be it more or less is precious and that he should enjoy it as he pleases. Rated PG-13; 105 min.
