November Movies at the Library

NoirVember Movie Night

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Alfred Hitchcock directed this classic suspense tale–widely considered one of the master’s best works–tapping into the evil that lies hidden just beneath the surface of each of us. When two strangers–tennis star Guy Haines, whose wife will not grant him a divorce, and wealthy but deranged young Bruno Anthony, who wants to be rid of his father–happen to meet on a train from Washington to New York, the conversation casually turns to a possibly perfect crime: what if each committed a murder for the other? The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. 

Showtime: Tuesday, 11/12

Rating: PG

Runtime: 1h 41min

Movie Night @ North Quincy

Little Women (2019)

In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.

Showtime: Tuesday, 11/19

Rating: PG

Runtime: 2h 15min

NEW Audio Described

MAIN LIBRARY (2 PM)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Six Oscars, including Best Picture and Actor (Tom Hanks), went to this extraordinary tale of a simple man who unwittingly becomes involved in some of the key moments of the 20th century. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny, the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and ’70s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon.

Showtime: Friday 11/8

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 2h 22min

NEW Foreign Film Fridays

MAIN LIBRARY (2 PM)

La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) (2007)

A Mexican boy embarks on an illegal border-crossing adventure in hopes of reuniting with his mother, an undocumented immigrant working as a domestic in L.A. He is forced to make the dangerous journey after the death of his grandmother, who was taking care of him in Mexico. (Spanish – Mexico; English Subtitles)

Showtime: Friday 11/15

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1h 49min

ADAMS SHORE (2 PM)

Remember The Titans (2000)

In 1971 Virginia high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the school board was forced to integrate an all-black school with an all-white one, the very foundation of football’s tradition was put to the test.

Showtime: Thursday 11/21

Rating: PG

Runtime: 2h

Inside Out 2

Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.

Showtime: Nov 6

Rating: PG

Runtime: 1h 36min

Rudy (1993)

Rudy Ruettiger wants to play football at the University of Notre Dame, but has neither the money for tuition nor the grades to qualify for a scholarship. Rudy redoubles his efforts to get out of the steel mill where his father works when his best friend dies in an accident there. Overcoming his dyslexia thanks to his friend and tutor, D-Bob, Rudy gains admission to Notre Dame and begins to fight his way onto the school’s fabled football team.

Showtime: Nov 13

Rating: PG

Runtime: 1h 56min

War Pony (2022)

The interlocking stories of two young Oglala Lakota men, living on the Pine Ridge Reservation, grappling with a world built against them as they navigate their unique paths to manhood. The duo is loosely intertwined, both trying to make it any way they know how. Life on the Reservation is tough – full of distractions and trouble. Now, they must learn how to grow up.

Showtime: Nov 20

Rating: R

Runtime: 1h 55min

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)

Easily excitable Neal Page is somewhat of a control freak. Trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife and kids, his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, and his sanity begins to fray. Worse yet, he is forced to bunk up with talkative Del Griffith, whom he finds extremely annoying. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.

Showtime: Nov 27

Rating: R

Runtime: 1h 33min