May Movies at the Library
The Main Library screens your favorite films on Wednesdays at 2 PM in the Community Meeting Room.
NEW! Audio Described Movies at the Main Library on the first Friday afternoon each month!
The Adams Shore Library hosts monthly movie matinee screenings every third Thursday afternoon!
Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Thomas Crane Public Library
Special Documentary Screenings
In Their Shoes: Unheard Stories of Reentry & Recovery (2019) Screening with prison Book Program
Join us in support of Quincy’s own Prison Book Program (PBP) for a special documentary screening! We’ll hear from representatives from Prison Book Program, who will share a brief overview of PBP and opportunities for getting involved. Afterwards, there will be an off-site volunteer opportunity with PBP from 1 – 4 PM at their office in Quincy, for those interested!
Synopsis: Meet the men whose lives intersect in a prison reentry and addiction recovery creative writing program. Learn, from their own words, what lead them to commit their crimes, and witness the complexity of their ongoing stories on the outside. With interviews and appearances by Mayor Marty Walsh, Congressman Joe Kennedy III, Sheriff Michael Bellotti, Professor Randall Horton, Dr. Bertha Madras of Trump’s Commission on the Opiate Crisis, and more. This film was created to amplify the disempowered and generally vilified populations in the drug crises – the easiest targets caught in the most difficult cycles. Get to know the real people- surprisingly relatable, sometimes terrifying, and too often heartbreaking- who live silently behind today’s headlines in these untold stories. Rated: TV-14 | Runtime: 1H, 12MIN
Recovery City (2023) Screening
Please join us for a screening of the documentary Recovery City, an intimate, unflinching portrait of four bold women who refuse to let themselves or their community give in to the stigma and despair of addiction.
Synopsis: A raw exploration of what it means to be in recovery as seen through the eyes of four women whose lives share a common thread: addiction. In the working class city of Worcester, Massachusetts, Christine fights to regain custody of her young children while grappling with a traumatic past, and battling stigma from the very systems that are designed to help her. Bridget, who found recovery while in prison, now facilitates peer-led support meetings for women. On the frontlines, recovery coaches Janis and Rebecca navigate the city’s toughest corners offering support and trying to save lives. In this portrait of resilience, grit, and camaraderie, the women use their lived experience to lift up those still struggling while refusing to give up hope. Runtime: 1H, 36MIN
Monthly Movie Screenings
Audio Described Movie
MAIN LIBRARY (2 PM)
Turning Red (2022)
Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” introduces Mei Lee, a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda!
Showtime: Friday 5/2/2025
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1h 40min
ADAMS SHORE (2 PM)
Here Today (2021)
When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York street singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Showtime: Thursday 5/15/2025
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 2h
Final Movie Night @ NQ
NORTH QUINCY (6:30 PM)
The Public (2018)
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when unhoused people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Showtime: Tuesday 5/20/2025
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 2h
Weekly Movie Matinees
Wednesdays at 2 PM
in the Community Meeting Room at the Main Library
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
“Crazy Rich Asians” follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick’s family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country’s wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors. Being on Nick’s arm puts a target on Rachel’s back, with jealous socialites and, worse, Nick’s own disapproving mother (Michelle Yeoh) taking aim. And it soon becomes clear that while money can’t buy love, it can definitely complicate things.
Showtime: May 7
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 2h
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Bruce Lee explodes onto the screen in the film that rocketed him to international superstardom, Enter The Dragon. Recruited by an intelligence agency, martial arts student Lee (Lee–Fists of Fury, The Chinese Connection) participates in a brutal tournament at a remote island fortress in an attempt to gather enough evidence to convict the international drug-trafficker responsible for the murder of Lee’s sister. In the now-classic fight-to-the-death finish, two men enter a mirrored maze, but only one will exit…
Showtime: May 14
Rating: R
Runtime: 1h 42min
The Mermaid 美人鱼 (2016)
Shan who is actually the Mermaid, enters the human world in disguise. She eventually makes a rich developer of a beach front, Xuan falls in love with her so as to help her to rescue the mermaids and the other marine creatures.
Showtime: May 21
Rating: R
Runtime: 1h 40min
Polite Society (2023)
When her demure older sister, Lena, announces her impending nuptials, Ria vows to thwart the marriage by whatever means necessary, believing she is saving her sister from an uncertain fate. Armed with an overactive imagination and a ragtag gaggle of friends, Ria concocts an outlandish heist to protect her sister’s independence.
Showtime: May 28
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1h 43min