Films that reflect "Color Our World," the theme of this year's Summer Reading program for adults, are screened on Monday afternoons.
Light refreshments will be served starting at 1:45 p.m.
June 16 - "Blueback" (2022, PG, 1 hour, 42 minutes): When Abby meets a beautiful blue grouper while on a dive, she develops a special connection with the fish. After she names him Blueback, the unlikely duo spends as much time together as possible.
June 30 - "Moulin Rouge" (2001, PG-13, 2 hours, 7 minutes): An aspiring writer leaves his bourgeois father during the French belle époque of the late 1890s to seek his fortune in the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris.
July 14 - "Oranges and Sunshine" (2020, R, 1 hour, 45 minutes): The story of social worker Margaret Humphreys, who uncovered the scandal of the systematic deportation of impoverished British children to Australia, and who worked to reunite them with their families. Based on actual events.
July 28 - "Fried Green Tomatoes" (1991, PG-13, 2 hours, 10 minutes): A neglected housewife makes an unexpected friend at a nursing home, where she hears a true tale about an independent woman in 1920s Alabama, who ran the town diner, served food to people of color and protected her sister-in-law from an abusive spouse.
Aug. 11 - "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012, R, 2 hours, 2 minutes): A man who has recovered from a mental collapse is released from a health facility determined to find the silver linings in his life.
Aug. 25 - "Woman in Gold" (2015, PG-13, 1 hour, 49 minutes): A Jewish woman attempts to reclaim her family's property, which was stolen six decades earlier during WWII. Based on the true story of Maria Altmann.
Information about our adult Summer Reading program and how to take part is available at this link or by visiting the library.
