Movies
Family Film Series
Family Film Series:
Noon
Student Center Auditorium
Saturday, October 17, 2009- Up
Saturday, November 21, 2009- Coraline
Saturday, January 9, 2010- Holes
Saturday, February 20, 2010- Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Friday, March 12, 2010- Dreamchild
Saturday, April 17, 2010- E.T.
Campus Life and the Children's Literature program team up once again to give students and families a free activity on Saturdays. The films are based on great works of children's literature. Following the film screening, stay for a discussion of the work. The Family Film Series is free (including free parking) and open to anyone.
Up
Saturday, October 17, 2009Noon
Student Center Auditorium
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and now in his 78th year he launches his house into the sky via thousands of balloons. Right after liftoff he discovers he has a stowaway in the form of an over optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. This hilarious journey takes you into a lost world with the least likely duo on Earth.
Coraline
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Noon
Student Center Auditorium
Coraline is a curious young girl who unlocks a mysterious door in her family's new home and enters into an adventure in a parallel reality. On the surface, this "Other World" eerily mimics her own life - though it is much more fantastical. While encountering different versions of her own life ultimately, Coraline must rely on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home.
Holes
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Noon
Student Center Auditorium
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where the warden has an unusual method of discipline. The camp makes all of its wards dig large holes under the guise of building character.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Saturday, February 21, 2010
Noon
Student Center Auditorium
This unique film tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of eight year old, Bruno whose father is a Nazi commander at Auschwitz. Bruno strikes up a friendship with a Jewish boy, Shmuel, through the fence surrounding the camp where everyone wears striped "pajamas." Their friendship will have startling and unexpected consequences for both of them.
Dreamchild
Saturday, March 12, 2010
Noon
Student Center Auditorium
Eccentric writer Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland for a ten-year-old girl named Alice Hargreaves. Seventy years later, Alice Hargreaves visits New York in the 1930s and talks about her experiences as the model for the fictional Alice. DREAMCHILD includes fantasy sequences with Wonderland characters created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
E.T.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Noon
Student Center Auditorium
Elliot is your normal boy, until one day, when he meets a lost alien. Elliot decides to keep the alien, and names him E.T. Elliot must keep him hidden, as someone else is looking for him. Elliot works with E.T., trying to find a way for him to get back home.