Friday Night Flicks

Enjoy great movies and great fellowship at a great price: FREE! Bring your own popcorn, snacks or drinks if you wish. All films are shown in the either Founders hall or the "High School Room" (in our new classroom building).

Childcare is now available for Friday Flicks.

July 23 - MY BRILLIANT CAREER - 1979

My Brilliant Career is an Australian film featuring the acting debut of Judy Davis and the directing debut of Gillian Armstrong. The story is based on a 1901 autobiographical novel by 16-year-old Miles Franklin which chronicles the efforts of an independent-minded farm girl to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. In this process, she must fend off a priggish suitor and deal with her attraction to a wealthy landowner (Sam Neill) who slowly but surely expresses his love for her.

Judy Davis is marvelously alive as the oddball heroine who vexes her mother, perplexes a rich grandmother, and sets off sparks at staid dinner parties and a formal affair. My Brilliant Career makes the best of a variety of stunning Australian landscapes but demonstrates its real beauty and clout as an inward journey into the soulscape of an artist determined to dance alone to the music of her own special muse.

Synopses courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes

Aug. 13 - THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE - 1962

People have called “The Manchurian Candidate” the greatest political thriller ever made. People would be right. It was for its time a bold, daring work, and it remains remarkably effective some five decades later.

Aug 20 - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT - 1934

It Happened One Night featured two of the most popular stars of its day and

went on to win all five major Academy Awards; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.

We are showing IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT on the 3rd Friday because the SUMMER POPS will be rehearsing on the 4th Friday.

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