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A Royal Affair
Starts Friday Nov. 23rd
Friday-Sunday Matinees at 12:30pm;
Friday-Sunday evenings at 5pm;
Monday-Wednesday at 6pm
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Happy
Turkey Day to all you Pageant regulars. Now when you're all finished
with that turkey and fixins, come on down to the Pageant and catch a
couple of great new films. They won't be around long (like LINCOLN or
SKYFALL), so come on down and spend some of your holidays (and cash) at
our little arthouse. Popcorn's on....
A ROYAL AFFAIR is the true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen's
heart and starts a revolution. Centering on the intriguing love
triangle between the ever more insane Danish King Christian VII, the
royal physician who is a man of enlightenment and idealism Struensee and
the young but strong Queen Caroline Mathilda, A ROYAL AFFAIR is the
gripping tale of brave idealists who risk everything in their pursuit of
freedom for their people.
"The Oscar race for best foreign-language film rarely comes without a
helping of muslin-and-bonnet dramas stuffed with misbehaving royals,
masked balls and burgeoning job opportunities for food stylists. As
heritage cinema goes, however, the year's Academy Award entry from
Denmark is a firecracker."....NPR
88% on ROTTEN TOMATOES
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Smashed
Starts Friday Nov. 23rd
Friday & Saturday at 3pm and 7:45pm
Sunday Matinee 3pm
Monday-Wednesday 6pm
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Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Charlie (Aaron Paul) are a young
married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter
and drinking...especially the drinking. When Kate's drinking leads her
to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into
jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her
friend and sponsor Jenny, and the vice principal at her school, the
awkward, but well intentioned, Mr. Davies, Kate takes steps toward
improving her health and life. Sobriety isn't as easy as Kate had
anticipated. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling
relationship with her mother, facing the lies she's told her employer
and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is
built on love or is just boozy diversion from adulthood.
"A terrific performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a rock-bottom
alcoholic is only one reason to appreciate "Smashed," an affecting and
immersive addiction drama about the unforeseen pitfalls along the road
to recovery. Scribe-helmer James Ponsoldt's sad, funny and strangely
exuberant second feature weaves a few plot strands too many as it pushes
its protag toward her big moment of cathartic self-reckoning, but is
enhanced by a rich, offbeat sense of life teeming in the
margins."...Variety
81% on ROTTEN TOMATOES
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Somewhere Between
Special Engagement-One Night Only
Friday, November 30th at 5:30pm
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In profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, Linda Goldstein
Knowlton's (THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET) deeply moving
documentary illustrates that even the most specific of experiences can
be universally relatable. Of the roughly 80,000 girls who have been
adopted from China since 1989—a decade after China implemented its One
Child Policy—the film intimately follows four teenagers: Haley, Jenna,
Ann, and Fang. These four wise-beyond-their-years, yet typical American
teens, reveal a heartbreaking sense of selfawareness as they attempt to
answer the uniquely human question, “Who am I?” They meet and bond with
other adoptees, some journey back to China to reconnect with the
culture, and some reach out to the orphaned girls left behind. In their
own ways, all attempt to make sense of their complex identities. Issues
of belonging, race, and gender are brought to life through these
articulate subjects, who approach life with honesty and open hearts.
IMPORTANT: In order to schedule this film, a minimum number of pre-sale
tickets must be purchased this week. See link below
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