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FLY AWAY HOME (1996) Saturday, December 4 | 10:00 am & 2:00 pm Cast: Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney After Amy loses her mother in a car accident, she must uproot her life and move to Canada to live with her father, Thomas, an oddball inventor with whom she has no relationship. She initially struggles to find her her place in her new home, but things change when she stumbles upon a collection of aban- doned goose eggs. When the eggs hatch, Amy and her dad work together teaching the motherless birds to fly south for the winter, and their relationship blooms. THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (2017) Sunday, December 5 | 1:30 pm & 4:00 pm Cast: Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Zendaya Growing up in the early 1800s, P.T. Barnum displays a natu- ral talent for publicity and promotion, selling lottery tickets by age 12. After trying his hands at various jobs, P.T. turns to show business to indulge his limitless imagination, rising from nothing to create the Barnum & Bailey circus. Featuring catchy musical numbers, exotic performers and daring acro- batic feats, Barnum's mesmerizing spectacle soon takes the world by storm to become the greatest show on Earth. IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947) Friday, December 3 | 1:30 pm Saturday, December 4 | 6:00 pm Sunday, December 5 | 6:30 pm Cast: Victor Moore, Charlie Ruggles, Ann Harding, Gale Storm While rich businessman Mike O'Connor resides in Virginia, his luxury townhouse in NewYork City appears vacant. How- ever, in reality, drifter Aloysius "Mac" McKeever has been staying there. Mac invites Jim, an unemployed veteran who has just been evicted from a building owned by O'Connor, to stay at the house without revealing he's squatting. When O'Connor's daughter, Trudy, shows up as well, she falls for Jim and tries to help him. THE PROPOSAL (2009) Saturday, December 11 | 10:00 am & 2:00 pm Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, Mary Steenburgen Faced with deportation to her native Canada, high-powered book editor Margaret Tate says she's engaged to marryAndrew Paxton, her hapless assistant. Andrew agrees to the charade, but imposes a few conditions of his own, including flying to Alaska to meet his eccentric family. With a suspicious immi- gration official always lurking nearby, Margaret and Andrew must stick to their wedding plan despite numerous mishaps. WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (1995) Sunday, December 12 | 1:30 pm & 4:00 pm Cast: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Glynis Jones Lonely transit worker Lucy Eleanor Moderatz pulls her long- time crush, Peter, from the path of an oncoming train. At the hospital, doctors report that he's in a coma, and a misplaced comment from Lucy causes Peter's family to assume that she is his fiancée. When Lucy doesn't correct them, they take her into their home and confidence. Things get even more com- plicated when she finds herself falling for Peter's sheepish brother, Jack. CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) Friday, December 10 | 1:30 pm Saturday, December 11 | 6:00 pm Sunday, December 12 | 6:30 pm Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, S.Z. Sakall, Sydney Greenstreet While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column writ- ten by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Yardley hastens to arrange a publicity ploy by setting up single, nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm. 12 the p i necone • 10 • The Pinecone | December 2021