May Movie Screenings at the Library

AAPI Heritage Month Movie Night!

Past Lives (2023)

Celebrate AAPI Month by joining us for a movie night! We will be screening Oscar nominated Past Lives (2023.) Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, get separated after her family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they reunite in New York City for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love and life choices.

Showtime: Thursday, May 16 | 6 – 8 PM

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1h 46min

Local Documentary Screening from The Boston Globe!

Inundation District (2023)

Join us for a special screening of Inundation District, produced by the Boston Globe and directed by Pulitzer Prize winning director David Abel.  In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world’s wealthiest, most-educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast — on landfill, at sea level. Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the world’s largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. The city, which already has more high-tide flooding than nearly any other in the United States, called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: Inundation District.

Learn more about the film here. 

Showtime: Thursday, May 23 | 7 – 8:30 PM

Rating: PG

Runtime: 1h 19min

NEW Audio Described Movies

MAIN LIBRARY (2 PM)

Big Hero 6 (2014)

A young tech whiz named Hiro must save his city from a nefarious villain with the help of his inflatable robot Baymax, as well as his friends Go Go Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred.

Showtime: Friday 5/3

Rating: PG

Runtime: 1h 45min

NEW Foreign Film Fridays

MAIN LIBRARY (2 PM)

Parasite 기생충 (2019)

Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks give the Kims a way out of their shabby circumstances. But this new ecosystem is fragile, and soon enough greed and class prejudice threaten to upend the Kims’ newfound comfort.

Showtime: Friday, 5/17

Rating: R

Runtime: 2h 12min

NORTH QUINCY LIBRARY (10 AM)

What Happens Later? (2023)

Willa and Bill are ex-lovers that will see each other for the first time in years when they both find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight.

Showtime: Wednesday 5/15

Rating: R

Runtime: 1h 44min

ADAMS SHORE LIBRARY (2 PM)

Wonka (2023)

Armed with nothing but a hatful of dreams, young chocolatier Willy Wonka manages to change the world, one delectable bite at a time.

Showtime: Thursday 5/16

Rating: PG

Runtime: 1h 56min

Next Goal Wins (2023)

Due to a change in his employment status, Dutch-American football coach Thomas Rongen was forced to undertake a coaching role he had difficulty accepting. He flew to American Samoa to coach their national football team to become eligible for the 2001 FIFA World Cup. The main challenge, though, is that the team is touted as one of the weakest in the world. Based on the 2014 documentary with the same title, this sports comedy-drama features the real-life travails of Thomas Rongen.

Showtime: May 1

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1h 44min

Picture Bride (1994)

Tale about a Japanese woman who agrees to an arranged marriage in turn-of-the-century Hawaii, but finds that it’s not the paradise she thought it would be. Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama. Kana: Tamlyn Tomita. Kanzaki: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Kayo Hatta directed.

Showtime: May 8

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1h 40min

Lion (2016)

A 5-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after he gets lost in Calcutta. Years later, he struggles with his memories of his birth family, and decides to begin a search for them.

Showtime: May 15

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1h 58min

Yellow Rose (2019)

In rural Texas, a Filipino teen longs to make her mark on the world of country music. When an unexpected opportunity comes her way, she must make a choice between upholding her family’s traditions or leaving them all behind to pursue her lifelong aspiration.

Showtime: May 22

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1h 34min