The weekend of October 28, 2011 - October 30, 2011 we are happy to be showing Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.
Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system.
Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's who is forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget. While doing so, he has an epiphany: all of baseball's conventional wisdom is wrong.
Forced to put together his team on one of the lowest salary caps in the league, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It's more than baseball, it's a revolution – one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he's tearing out the heart and soul of the game.
The weekend of October 21, 2011 - October 23, 2011 it's time for a local film as we present Abduction, starring Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, and Alfred Molina.
For as long as he can remember, Nathan has had the feeling that his life is not his own. When he stumbles on an image of himself as a small boy on a missing persons website, his worst fears seem to come true. He realizes that his parents are not his own, and his life is a lie fabricated to hide something more mysterious and dangerous than he could imagine.
As he begins to piece together his true identity, Nathan is target by a team of killers, forcing him to go on the run with the only person he can trust, his neighbor Karen. As the assassins and federal agents close in, Nathan realizes that the only way to survive and solve the mystery of his biological father is to take matters into his own hands.
The weekend of October 14, 2011 - October 16, 2011 America's fastest car and the best tow truck in the United States return to the Ambridge Family Theatre for a last minute blast of summer in an encore showing of Cars 2, starring Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, and Michael Caine.
Star racecar Lightning McQueen and the incomparable tow truck Mater take their friendship to exciting new places when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car.
But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours and surprises when Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage. Mater finds himself torn between assisting Lightning McQueen in the high-profile race and towing the line in a top-secret mission orchestrated by master British super spy Finn McMissile and the stunning spy-in-training Holley Shiftwell.
The weekend of October 7, 2011 - October 9, 2011 we are happy to be showing for the second week The Help, starring Emma Stone and Viola Davis.
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times.
Personally, we rate this as one of the best movies we've seen this year.
The weekend of September 30, 2011 - October 2, 2011 we are happy to be showing The Help, starring Emma Stone and Viola Davis.
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times.
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