Monthly Movie Night, hosted by Paula H.

Show Time is 6:30PM at UUCVH.

Admission FREE.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Visitor, 2007, PG-13, 103 minutes

Widowed professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, in an Oscar-nominated role) finds himself drawn to a different rhythm when he discovers an immigrant couple, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), squatting in his Manhattan flat and becomes wrapped up in their lives. Hiam Abbass co-stars as Tarek's mother, who forges an unlikely connection with Walter when Tarek is thrown into a detention center.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

The Secret Life of Bees, 2008 PG-13 109 minutes

Haunted by her mother's death, 14-year-old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) escapes her dreary life on her father's farm and heads to Tiburon, S.C., with friend and caregiver Rosaleen Daise (Jennifer Hudson), spawning a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Set amid the hotbed of racial tensions in the 1960s South, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood's touching drama is based on Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling novel of the same name.

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July, 2012

The Long, Long Trailer, 1954 NR 96 minutes

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August, 2012

Lost Horizon, 1937 NR 134 minutes

In Frank Capra's classic based on the James Hilton novel, plane-crash survivors are led through the Himalayas to Shangri-La, a village without hate or crime where no one ages. Robert Conway (Ronald Coleman) is chosen to succeed Shangri-La's High Lama and falls for Sondra (Jane Wyatt), but his brother convinces him to leave on an ill-fated trek. When Conway ends up in England with amnesia, will he manage to go back and fulfill his destiny?

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September, 2012

As Seen Through These Eyes, 2008 NR 70 minutes

Renowned poet Maya Angelou narrates this harrowing documentary from Hilary Helstein that explores the horrors of the holocaust through the perspective of the artists and musicians who lived under the rule of the Third Reich. Though Hitler and the Nazis worked diligently to suppress any artistic expression within the camps and ghettos, many of their captives refused to be silenced, using their creativity to combat the oppression they endured.

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October, 2012

Death Becomes Her, 1992 PG-13 103 minutes

Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep run wild in this black comedy that mixes rapier wit with cutting-edge special effects. Insufferably vain, Hawn and Streep discover the secret of eternal youth -- and find that it has a few unadvertised drawbacks. The object of their affection is a nerdy plastic surgeon (Bruce Willis), but when the ladies' bodies start to go -- literally -- he might not be able to help them out. Robert Zemeckis directs

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November, 2012

Keeping Mum, 2005 R103 minutes

When housekeeper Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith) arrives at the Goodfellow vicarage, she finds a reverend (Rowan Atkinson) too busy for sex, a bored wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) who's bedding her golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), a promiscuous teenage daughter and a bullied son. Little does the family know that their new "Mary Poppins" has a few tricks -- and secrets -- up her treacherous sleeve. Niall Johnson directs this wickedly black comedy.