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YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942) Friday, July 5 | 1:30 pm Saturday, July 6 | 6:30 pm Sunday, July 7 | 6:30 pm Cast: James Cagney, Jeanne Cagney, Walter Huston, Joan Leslie Brought to the White House to receive a Congressional Gold Medal from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Broadway legend George M. Cohan reflects on his life. Flashbacks trace Cohan's rise, from a childhood performing in his family's vaudeville act to his early days as a struggling Tin Pan Alley songwriter to his overwhelming success as an actor, writer, director and producer known for patriotic songs like "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Over There." MONA LISA SMILE (2003) Saturday, July 6 | 1:30 pm Cast: Julia Roberts, Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students including Betty and Joan to challenge the lives they are expected to lead. THE PATRIOT (2000) Sunday, July 7 | 1:30 pm & 4:00 pm Cast: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Skye McCole Bartusiak A widowed farmer, with a brave but brutal military past, de- cides not to join up when the British arrive in 1776. However, when his son enlists and is later captured by the enemy, the former soldier must abandon his new-found pacifist principles in order to rescue his oldest child, and forms a regiment of Carolina patriots, whose guerrilla tactics prove pivotal to the US war effort. THEWIZARD OF OZ (1939) Friday, July 13 | 1:30 pm Saturday, July 14 | 6:30 pm Sunday, July 15 | 6:30 pm Cast: Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow that needs a brain, a Tin Man missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West to earn his help. DREAMER (2005) Saturday, July 14 | 1:30 pm Cast: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue, David Morse Ben Crane is a horse trainer who is struggling to connect with his precocious daughter, Cale. But then a horse by the name of Soñador suffers a broken leg after its evil owner races her despite Ben's advice. Rather than put his client's injured horse down, Ben adopts her and welcomes Cale into the family business. They train Soñador to race again as grouchy but kind-hearted Grandpa lends his encouragement. WESLEY (2009) Sunday, July 15 | 1:30 pm & 4:00 pm Cast: Burgess Jenkins, R. Keith Harris, June Lockhart, Kevin McCarthy A self-righteous preacher reforms his ways and founds a new sect of Christianity. 12 the p i necone • 10 • The Pinecone | July 2024