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March 2014 • 11 •
BR I GADOON
Saturday, March 15 at 6:00 p.m. &
Sunday, March 16 at 6:30 p.m.
(1954)
Cast: Gene Kelly,
Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
Two Americans on a hunting trip in
Scotland become lost. They encounter
a small village, not on the map, called
Brigadoon, in which people harbor a
mysterious secret, and behave as if they
were still living two hundred years in
the past.
CHEAP E R BY T HE DOZEN
Saturday, March 22
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2003)
Cast: Steve Martin,
Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff
The Bakers, a family of 12, move
from small-town Illinois to the big city
after Tom Baker gets his dream job to
coach his alma mater’s football team.
Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream
of getting her book published. While
she’s away promoting the book, Tom
has a hard time keeping the house in
order while at the same time coaching
his football team, as the once happy
family starts falling apart.
T ROUB L E WI T H T HE CURVE
Sunday, March 23
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2012)
Cast: Clint Eastwood,
Amy Adams, John Goodman
Gus is a baseball scout. The team he
works for thinks he should retire. He asks
them to let him do one more scouting
job to prove himself. His friend, Pete,
asks Gus’s estranged daughter, Mickey,
if she could go with him to make sure
he’s OK as his eyes are failing. The
doctor tells Gus he should get his eyes
treated but he insists on doing his
scouting assignment. Mickey decides
to put her work on hold to go with him
and she wants him to explain why he
pushed her away. Whilst there he runs
into Johnny, a scout from another team
who was a promising player Gus once
scouted. Johnny and Mickey take an
interest in each other.
PAR I S WHEN I T S I ZZ L E S
Saturday, March 22 at 6:00 p.m. &
Sunday, March 23 at 6:30 p.m.
(1964)
Cast: William Holden,
Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan
Hollywood
producer
Alexander
Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer
Richard Benson to write his latest
movie. Benson has been holed up in a
Paris apartment supposedly working
on the script for months, but instead
has spent the time living it up. Benson
now has just two days to the deadline
and thus hires a temporary secretary,
Gabrielle Simpson, to help him
complete it in time.
MY B I G F AT GR E EK
WEDD I NG
Saturday, March 29
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(2002)
Cast: Nia Vardalos,
John Corbett, Michael Constantine
Toula Portokalos is a single 30 year
old Greek woman, living with her
parents and brother in a Chicago Greek
community. After convincing her father
to go to the university, she meets the
non-Greek Ian Miller and they decide to
get married. Her father does not accept
the wedding of his daughter with a non-
Greek man.
HOOS I ERS
Sunday, March 30
at 1:30 and 4:00 p.m.
(1986)
Cast: Gene Hackman,
Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
Based on the true story of a small-
town Indiana team that made the state
finals in 1954, this movie chronicles the
attempts of a coach with a spotty past,
and the town’s basketball-loving drunk
to lead their high school team to victory.
H I S G I R L F R I DAY
Saturday, March 29 at 6:00 p.m. &
Sunday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m.
(1940)
Cast: Cary Grant,
Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Walter Burns, editor of a major
Chicago newspaper, is about to lose
his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy
Johnson, to insurance salesman Bruce
Baldwin, but not without a fight! The
crafty editor uses every trick in his
fedora to get Hildy to write one last big
story, about murderer Earl Williams and
the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The comedy
snowballs as William’s friend, Molly
Malloy, the crooked Mayor, and Bruce’s
mother all get tied up in Walter’s web.
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