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The Pinecone
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March 2013
ARBITRAGE
Saturday, March 2
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(2012)
Cast: Richard Gere, Susan
Sarandon
Robert Miller is a successful financial
businessman with a loving wife and a smart
daughter ready to take over the family
business. Professional secrets involving
illegal fraudulent activities start coming
out at the same time that Robert’s personal
secrets take a turn for the worse and threaten
to derail everything he has achieved.
THE ODD LIFE
OF TIMOTHY GREEN
Sunday, March 3
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2012)
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Joel
Edgerton
After receiving bad news from a fertility
doctor, Cindy and Jim Green try to bury
their dreams of having a child by writing out
all the great traits their child would have and
putting them in a box in the garden. During
a freak storm in the middle of the night, they
awake to find a boy named Timothy, with
leaves growing from his ankles, standing
in their kitchen calling them mom and dad.
Cindy and Jim are thrown into the midst of
parenthood and over the coming months,
Timothy will teach them more than they
could have imagined about being parents
and raising a child, no matter how he came
into their lives.
IMITATION OF LIFE
Saturday, March 2 at 6:00 p.m. and
Sunday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m.
(1934)
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren
William, Rochelle Hudson
Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have
had a hard time making ends meet since
Bea’s husband died. Help comes in the form
of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to work as
Bea’s housekeeper in exchange for a room
for herself and her daughter Peola. Bea
WITNESS FOR
THE PROSECUTION
Saturday, March 9 at 6:00 p.m. and
Sunday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m.
(1957)
Cast: Tyrone Power,
Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the
sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged
widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts
agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid,
recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is
“
supposed” to be on a diet of bland, civil
suits. But the lure of the criminal courts is
too much for him, especially when the case
is so difficult: Vole’s only alibi witness is
his wife, the calm and coldly calculating
Christine Vole. Sir Wilfrid’s task becomes
even more impossible when Christine
agrees to be a witness not for the defense
but for the prosecution.
HOOSIERS
Saturday, March 16
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(1986)
Cast: Gene Hackman,
Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
A classic tale of redemption, this film
features a volatile coach and a former star
player-turned alcoholic leading a small-
town basketball team on an improbable run
to the Indiana high school championship
game. Coach Norman Dale encounters
several hurdles in his path: a feisty teacher
determined to keep the best player from
going out for the team, a town chock full
of second-guessing fathers, and a group of
undisciplined athletes. Story inspired by the
Milan (Indiana) Indians’ state title of 1954.
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comes up with a plan to market Delilah’s
pancake recipe. The two soon become
wealthy and as the years go on, their
friendship deepens. Their relationships with
their daughters, however, become strained.
Ashamed of her mother, Peola seeks a new
life by passing for white. Bea’s love for her
daughter is tested when she and Jessie fall
for the same man.
CHARLOTTE GRAY
Saturday, March 9
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(2001)
Cast: Cate Blanchett, James Fleet
Charlotte, a young Scottish woman, who
has studied in France, is living in London
during World War II. Within weeks she
both falls in love with a young pilot and is
recruited by the Secret Service to act as a
courier for the French Resistance. However
her mission behind enemy lines becomes a
personal mission to find her lover who has
been shot down. Assigned to a Communist
Resistance group she encounters acts
of betrayal from sometimes unexpected
sources, but meets the violence of war and
her own disappointment with hope.
ROBOT & FRANK
Sunday, March 10
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2012)
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard,
Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon
In the near future, Frank is a retired cat
burglar living alone while his successful
son, Hunter, tries to care for him from afar.
Finally, Hunter gets him a robot caretaker,
but Frank soon learns that it is as useful as
a burglary aide. As Frank tries to restart his
old profession, the uncomfortable realities
of a changing world and his worsening
dementia threaten to take beyond what any
robot can do for him.
