October 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 every month!
NEW! Foreign Film Fridays at the Main Library on the third Friday afternoon every 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 Movie Nights
Themed Movie Nights at the Main Library from 6 – 8 PM
Presidential Popcorn Night
Amistad (1997)
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey) to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) also becomes an ally.
Showtime: Tuesday, 10/8
Rating: R
Runtime: 2h 35min
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
The Invisible Man (2020)
After staging his own suicide, a crazed scientist uses his power to become invisible to stalk and terrorize his ex-girlfriend. When the police refuse to believe her story, she decides to take matters into her own hands and fight back.
Showtime: Thursday, 10/17
Rating: R
Runtime: 2h
Presidential Popcorn Night
Frost/Nixon (2008)
In 1977, three years after the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency, Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) selects British TV personality David Frost (Michael Sheen) to conduct a one-on-one, exclusive interview. Though Nixon believes it will be easy to mislead Frost, and the latter’s own team doubts that he can stand up to the former president, what actually unfolds is an unexpectedly candid and revealing interview before the court of public opinion.
Showtime: Tuesday, 10/22
Rating: R
Runtime: 2h 2min
Monthly Movie Matinees
Movie Matinees that screen once a month every month!
NEW Audio Described
MAIN LIBRARY (2 PM)
Split (2016)
CANCELED
Showtime: CANCELED
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1h 45min
NEW Foreign Film Fridays
MAIN LIBRARY (2 PM)
El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007)
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend. (Spanish – Mexico & Spain; English Subtitles)
Showtime: Friday 10/18
Rating: R
Runtime: 1h 45min
ADAMS SHORE (2 PM)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
A teenage boy named Max and his little sister move to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.
Showtime: Thursday 10/17
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1h 36min
Weekly Movie Matinees
Wednesdays at 2 PM
in the Community Meeting Room at the Main Library
A Haunting in Venice
“A Haunting in Venice” is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets
Showtime: Oct 2
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1h 44min
Hocus Pocus (1993)
A teenage boy named Max and his little sister move to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.
Showtime: Oct 30
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1h 36min
Dracula (1931)
The dashing, mysterious Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), after hypnotizing a British soldier, Renfield (Dwight Frye), into his mindless slave, travels to London and takes up residence in an old castle. Soon Dracula begins to wreak havoc, sucking the blood of young women and turning them into vampires. When he sets his sights on Mina (Helen Chandler), the daughter of a prominent doctor, vampire-hunter Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) is enlisted to put a stop to the count’s never-ending bloodlust.
Showtime: Oct 9
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1h 15min
Ghostbusters (1984)
After the members of a team of scientists (Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray) lose their cushy positions at a university in New York City, they decide to become “ghostbusters” to wage a high-tech battle with the supernatural for money. They stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, a doorway that will release evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters must now save New York from complete destruction.
Showtime: Oct 16
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1h 45min
10 Cloverfield Lane
A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.
Showtime: Oct 23
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1h 43min