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January 2014 • 11 •
HOME RUN
Saturday, January 18
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(2013) Cast: Scott Elrod,
Dorian Brown, Charles Henry Wyson
Forced back to his small home town,
an alcoholic baseball hotshot fakes
recovery to regain his position on the
roster, coaches a little league team to
regain his popularity, pursues his old
flame to regain a romance, all while
finding redemption among a group of
addicts.
T HE R EMA I NS OF T HE DAY
Sunday, January 19
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(1993) Cast: Anthony Hopkins,
Emma Thompson, John Haycraft
A rule bound head butler’s world of
manners and decorum in the household
he maintains is tested by the arrival of a
housekeeper who falls in love with him
in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of
romance and his master’s cultivation
of ties with the Nazi cause challenge
his carefully maintained veneer of
servitude.
T HE T ROUB L E WI T H HAR RY
Saturday, January 18 at 6:00 p.m. &
Sunday, January 19 at 6:30 p.m.
(1955) Cast: John Forsythe,
Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn
Young Arnie, walking through the
Vermont woods, hears some threats,
and then gunshots. Investigating, he
finds the body of Harry Worp, and he
thinks Harry has been murdered. He
tells his mother, Jennifer Rogers, who
recognizes the man as her ex-husband.
She, along with the elderly Captain
Wiles and the spinster Ivy Gravely,
believe they will be prime suspects
when Harry’s body is found, so they
conspire to bury it, with the help of
artist Sam Marlowe.
T HE HOBB I T :
AN UNEXP ECT ED J OURNEY
Saturday, January 25
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(2012) Cast: Martin Freeman,
Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage
Once upon a time, the Kingdom of
Erebor in the Lonely Mountain was
taken from the dwarfs by the evil
dragon Smaug. One day, the young
Hobbit Bilbo Baggins is unexpectedly
visited by the wizard Gandalf the Grey
and twelve homeless dwarfs led by
their former king Thorin and decided
to vanquish Smaug and recover Erebor
and their treasure. Bilbo joins the
company in an unexpected journey
through dangerous lands of the Middle-
Earth where they have to fight against
Trolls, Orcs and other magic creatures.
Bilbo also meets the Gollum and finds
his lost magic ring.
T HE BUT L E R
Sunday, January 26
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2013) Cast: Forest Whitaker,
Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper’s son
who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic
servant for thewhite familywho casually
destroyed his. Eventually striking out
on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet
of such efficiency and discreteness in
the 1950s that he becomes a butler in
the White House itself. There, Cecil
would serve numerous US Presidents
over the decades as a passive witness of
history with the American Civil Rights
Movement gaining momentum even
as his family has troubles of its own.
As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her
addictions and his defiant eldest son,
Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil
must decide whether he should take
action in his own way.
THE TROUBL E WI TH ANGE L S
Saturday, January 25 at 6:00 p.m. &
Sunday, January 26 at 6:30 p.m.
(1966) Cast: Rosalind Russell,
Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes
St. Francis Academy for Girls used to
be a quiet sedate convent school - quiet
and sedate, that is, until it was invaded
by its newest pupil, Mary Clancy. Mary
is a hellion who’s youthful spirits keep
Mother Superior in a constant state
of panic as she and her friend, Rachel
Devery, substitute bubble bath for the
nun’s sugar, smoke cigars in the boiler
room, and attempt to make a life-mask
of the face of a fellow student with
quick-hardening plaster. Through it
all, Mother Superior is determined to
salvage something of worth from the
youthful clay.
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