Lenten Movies with a Message
10 AM, Thursdays from March 7 – April 18
Movie begins at 10 followed by Bring your own lunch and discussion
March 7 – Hidden Figures The story of a team of African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA in the early days of the space program.
March 14 – The Hiding Place Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews and caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent to a concentration camp, where their Christian faith helps them endure hardships.
March 21 – Spitfire Grill Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring resentment and fear in some, and growth in others.
March 28 – The Turin Horse The Turin Horse is a 2011 Hungarian philosophical drama film directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the whipping of a horse in the Italian city Turin which is rumored to have caused the mental breakdown of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
April 4 – Dragonfly Dragonfly is a 2002 supernatural fantasy film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Kevin Costner. The story is about a grieving doctor being contacted by his late wife through his patients' near-death experience.
April 11 – My Life Bob is dying of cancer. His wife, Gail, is expecting their first child. With a prognosis of only a few months of life left, Bob decides to record just about every aspect of his life on video tape.
