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Adults, join us at the library on Fridays at 1:30 for a free movie (currently scheduled through March.) Complimentary snacks provided by The Friends of Mendon Public Library. No registration necessary.

 (*) February 21: White Bird (PG-13, 120 minutes)  White Bird is the story of Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. Traveling back to her traumatic childhood, she recounts her time as a Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France. Seeking shelter in a small village, she finds a family who takes her in and hides her away from the Nazi forces. What follows is a poignant tale about friendship and survival in the most difficult times. A sequel to the 2017 film Wonder.

      • Directed by Marc Forster
      • Cast: Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren, Olivia Ross, Bryce Gheisar, Stuart McQuarrie

(*) Tweens, Teens, and Adults are all welcome to view White Bird during this school break week.

 

Movie poster for Hidden Figures. February 28: Hidden Figures (PG, 127 minutes) Three female African-American mathematicians provide crucial calculations for NASA’s space race against the Soviets, all while dealing with the racist and sexist assumptions of their white co-workers.

      • Directed by Theodore Melfi
      • Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons

 

Promotional poster for "The Hours"March 7:  The Hours (PG-13, 114 minutes) Three women, separated by 80 years, struggle with similar crises linked by the novel Mrs. Dalloway: 1. Author Virginia Woolf attempts to start writing that novel, 2. a ’50s housewife contemplates leaving her life behind, and 3. a modern-day book editor cares for a former boyfriend who’s fighting AIDS.

        • Directed by Stephen Daldry
        • Cast: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Lyndsay Marshal, Stephen Dillane

 

March 14:  Here (PG-13, 104 minutes) Reuniting the director, writer and stars of Forrest Gump, Here is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the most relatable of human experiences.

        • Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
        • Cast: Kelly Reilly, Robin Wright, Tom Hanks, Michelle Dockery, Paul Bettany

 

March 21: Wicked (PG, 160 minutes) The untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart.

        • Directed by: Jon M. Chu
        • Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Kristin Chenoweth

 

March 28: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (PG, 107 minutes) Lloyd Vogel is tasked with creating a profile of Fred Rogers, the creator and star of the successful children’s program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He dutifully goes to the studio where his subject is filming his show, and soon enough, he is sitting down with him, asking him probing questions. However, Fred seems to have a different plan in mind. The interviewee suddenly becomes the interviewer, and he starts to help the writer sent for him in unexpected ways.

        • Directed by Marielle Heller
        • Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Wendy Makkena, Enrico Colantoni, Chris Cooper

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