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September 2013
CHAP L I N : T HE MOV I E
Saturday, September 7
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(1992)
Cast: Robert Downey Jr.,
Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys
Partly based on Charlie Chaplin’s
My
Autobiography
,
this humorous and
dramatic biopic features an all-star
cast and Chaplin’s real-life daughter,
Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his
mentally ill mother. With the use of
flashback, an elderly Chaplin discusses
his autobiography with his editor, who
urges him to be more vulnerable and
emotionally honest with his memoirs
while journeying through his poverty-
stricken childhood, closest friendships,
many marriages, merciless pursuit by J.
Edgar Hoover, and ingenious invention
of “The Little Tramp.”
UNCL E BUCK
Sunday, September 8
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(1997)
Cast: John Candy,
Jean Louisa Kelly, Macaulay Culkin
As an idle, good-natured bachelor,
Uncle Buck is the last person you would
think of to watch the kids. However,
during a family crisis, he is suddenly
left in charge of his nephew and nieces.
Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-
loving Uncle Buck soon charms his
younger relatives, Miles and Maizy,
with his hefty cooking and his new
way of doing the laundry. His carefree
style does not impress everyone, though
-
especially his rebellious teenage
niece, Tia, and his impatient girlfriend,
Chanice. With a little bit of luck and
a lot of love, Uncle Buck manages to
surprise everyone in this heartwarming
family comedy.
L U L L ABY OF BROADWAY
Saturday, September 7 at 6:00 p.m.
&
Sunday, September 8 at 6:30 p.m.
(1951)
Cast: Doris Day,
Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad
singing with a musical troupe. She
decides to return home to surprise her
mother whom she thinks is a successful
Broadway star with a mansion in
Manhattan. She doesn’t know that her
mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret
singer with a love for whiskey. When
she arrives at the mansion, she is taken
in by the two servants who are friends
of her mother. The house actually
belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-
hearted Broadway producer who also
gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell
takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to
star her in his next show. Melinda also
finds romance with a handsome hoofer
who’s also in the show. All is going well
for Melinda except that she wants to see
her mother who keeps putting off their
reunion.
T HE WORDS
Saturday, September 14
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(2012)
Cast: Dennis Quaid,
Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana
Layered romantic drama, “The Words”
follows young writer Rory Jansen
who finally achieves long-sought-after
literary success after publishing the
next great American novel. There’s
only one catch - he didn’t write it. As
the past comes back to haunt him and
his literary star continues to rise, Jansen
is forced to confront the steep price that
must be paid for stealing another man’s
work, and for placing ambition and
success above life’s most fundamental
three words.
HEM I NGWAY & GE L L HORN
Sunday, September 15
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2012)
Cast: Nicole Kidman,
Clive Owen, David Strathairn
“
Hemingway & Gellhorn” recounts
one of the greatest romances of the last
century – the passionate love affair and
tumultuous marriage of literary master
Ernest Hemingway and the beautiful,
trailblazing war correspondent Martha
Gellhorn - as it follows the adventurous
writers through the Spanish Civil War
and beyond.Aswitnesses to history, they
covered all the great conflicts of their
time; but the war they couldn’t survive
was the war between themselves.
CHARADE
Saturday, September 14 at 6:00 p.m.
&
Sunday, September 15 at 6:30 p.m.
(1963)
Cast: Cary Grant,
Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
Regina is about to divorce her husband
when she finds that he has been
murdered after converting every penny
they owned to cash, which is also
missing. She meets Cary Grant who
changes his name every 15 minutes or
so and is interested in her husband’s
money, which seems to have come from
a WWII payroll he stole. His partners in
crime are also very interested in where
the money is, as he stole it from them as
well. Everyone assumes Regina MUST
know where the money is. The situation
becomes more tense when the searchers
begin turning up dead.
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