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December 2014 • 11 •
WH I L E YOU WERE S L EEP I NG
Saturday, December 20
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(1995)
Cast: Sandra Bullock,
Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher
Lucy is a lonely Chicago subway
employee whose life consists of living
with her cat, avoiding her landlord’s
boorish son, and nursing a hopeless
crush on a handsome commuter who
passes her booth every day. While
working the Christmas shift, she
witnesses himbeingmugged and pushed
off the platform, and manages to save
his life - and is mistaken for his fiancée
at the hospital. She is duly embraced by
the man’s warm and welcoming family
-
except for his suspicious brother Jack,
who is not convinced that she’s the
genuine article.
THE CHR I STMAS CARD
Sunday, December 21
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2006)
Cast: Edward Asner,
John Newton, Alice Evans
In this patriotic Hallmark Channel
movie, an American soldier fighting the
War in Afghanistan falls in love with a
woman who sent him an anonymous
Christmas card.
I T ’ S A WONDE R FU L L I F E
Saturday, December 20 at 6:00 p.m.
&
Sunday, December 21 at 6:30 p.m.
(1954)
Cast: James Stewart,
Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
George Bailey spends his entire life
giving up his big dreams for the good
of his town, Bedford Falls, as we
see in flashback. But in the present,
on Christmas Eve, he is broken and
suicidal over the misplacing of an
$8000 loan and the machinations of
the evil millionaire, Mr. Potter. His
guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth,
literally, and shows him how his town,
family, and friends would turn out if
he had never been born. George meant
so much to so many people; should he
really throw it all away?
MA L E F I CENT
Saturday, December 27
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(2014)
Cast: Angelina Jolie,
Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley
Abeautiful, pure-hearted youngwoman,
Maleficent has an idyllic life growing
up in a peaceable forest kingdom,
until one day when an invading army
threatens the harmony of the land.
Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest
protector, but she ultimately suffers a
ruthless betrayal - an act that begins
to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on
revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with
the invading king’s successor and, as a
result, places a curse upon his newborn
infant Aurora. As the child grows,
Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds
the key to peace in the kingdom - and
perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness
as well.
AND SO I T GOES
Sunday, December 28
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2014)
Cast: Michael Douglas,
Diane Keaton, Sterling Jerins
A self-absorbed realtor enlists the help
of his neighbor when he’s suddenly left
in charge of the granddaughter he never
knew existed until his estranged son
drops her off at his home.
HOL I DAY I NN
Saturday, December 27 at 6:00 p.m.
&
Sunday, December 28 at 6:30 p.m.
(1942)
Cast: Bing Crosby,
Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds
Jim Hardy and Ted Hanover have been
vaudeville partners for many years but
when Ted announces that he and Jim’s
girlfriend, dancer Lila Dixon, are going
to set off on their own, Jim decides
the time has come to retire. He buys
himself a farmhouse in New England
and settles into the country life but soon
realizes that he has an opportunity to do
something special. He decides to open
his inn to the public, but only on major
holidays. Things are going well for
him until his old partner Ted shows up
and sets his sights on Jim’s new friend,
Linda Mason.
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