Friday Night Flicks
June 21, 7:00 pm
Immanuel Presbyterian Church Chapel
Free: admission, popcorn, and drinks!!
At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday
is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
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Friday Night Flicks
Friday Night Flicks Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Friday Night Flicks
George Bernard Shaw’s play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady. It won the 1939 Oscar for Best Screenplay. This play was the basis for the 1956 Broadway musical and 1964 film, My Fair Lady. Coming in April: Shakespeare in Love (1998) featuring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Geoffrey Rush. April 19 at 7:00 pm. Friday Night Flicks
Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckling who has the audacity to ask to be Scott’s partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, “there are no new steps!” Friday Night Flicks, 7:00 pm
In a heartwarming story of mistaken identity and idealism, Kevin Kline plays Dave Kovic, a sweet man with a big heart running an employment agency. Dave happens to be a dead ringer for the current president of the United States, and he hires himself out as an impersonator for parties and mall openings. When the real president has a stroke while in bed with an aide, his ambitious chief of staff (Frank Langella) decides to hold onto the White House by appealing to Dave’s sense of patriotism and having him pose as the president. Soon, however, Dave is running the country in a way contrary to what the chief of staff would like, even as he finds himself falling in love with the unsuspecting first lady (Sigourney Weaver). The movie’s unbridled optimism is its best asset, and it makes this a pleasant comedy worth seeing. Starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver Friday Night Flicks It’s a Wonderful Life (1947) 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. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn’t been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide? Frank Capra’s masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. Friday, November 17, 7:00 pm
Starring Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado; directed by Fred Zinnemann Friday Night Flicks Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn shine in a classic film about marriage, politics, and the pursuit of the American dream. When idealistic businessman Grant Matthews (Tracy) is chosen to run for the Presidency, he is caught between the ruthless ambition of a string-pulling newspaper owner and the integrity of his devoted wife (Hepburn). Friday Night Flicks “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” Charles Dickens’ tale of love and tumult during the French Revolution comes to the screen in a sumptuous film version by the producer famed for nurturing sprawling literary works, David O. Selznick. Stars Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, and Basil Rathbone.
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Town marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is caught between his pacifist Quaker wife Amy (Grace Kelly) and a felt duty to face down evil men coming on the noon train to take revenge on him. Townspeople must choose whether to support Kane with action or to let him stand alone. Amy, too, must choose between her spouse and her own moral beliefs.