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= AVERAGE = GOOD = GREAT = PERFECT BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST (1941) Saturday, December 17 | 10:00 am & 1:30 pm Cast: Greer Garson, Walter, Pidgeon, Marsha Hunt, Felix Bressart Edna Gladney lost her son when he was very young. By chance she discovered the injustice within the law towards children whose parents are unknown, and decided to open an orphanage for these children, despite the stigma. She fought against the un- fair laws that discriminated against children born out of wedlock. DIE HARD (1988) Sunday, December 18 | 1:30 pm & 4:00 pm Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson NewYork City policeman John McClane is visiting his estranged wife and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a hol- iday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages -- but him. IT’S AWONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Friday, December 23 | 1:30 pm Saturday, December 24 | 6:30 pm Sunday, December 25 | 6:30 pm Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it’s Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence - who then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn’t been for all his good deeds over the years. CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) Saturday, December 24 | 1:30 pm & 4:00 pm Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the “Diary of a Housewife” column written 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. THE NATIVITY STORY (2006) Sunday, December 25 | 1:30 pm & 4:00 pm Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Ciaran Hinds, Shaun Toub Betrothed to much-older Joseph, Mary must remain a maiden for one year, but she subsequently receives a visit from the angel Ga- briel, who tells her of her destiny. When Joseph and now-heavily pregnant Mary journey to Bethlehem for the Roman census, they face a threat from King Herod, whose obsession with an ancient prophecy endangers soon-to-be-born Jesus.. THE SINGING NUN (1966) Friday, December 30 | 1:30 pm Saturday, December 31 | 6:30 pm Sunday, January 1 | 6:30 pm Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson, Agnes Moorehead Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade. LAST SEEN ALIVE (2022) Saturday, December 31 | 10:00 am & 1:30 pm Cast: Gerard Butler, Jaimie Alexander, Ethan Embry, Russell Hornsby After Will Spann’s wife suddenly vanishes at a gas station, his desperate search to find her leads him down a dark path that forces him to run from authorities and take the law into his own hands threatening to reveal many secrets. The Pinecone | December 2022 • 11 • KIRBY PINES MOVIE RATING SYSTEM