SATURDAY AFTERNOON SATURDAY AFTERNOON January 25, 2020 @ 1:30 p.m. January 25, 2020 @ 1:30 p.m. 17 TH REEL RELIGION War Horse (2011) 146 minutes Amazing Grace (2018) 108 minutes Director: Steven Spielberg Director: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack FILM FESTIVAL Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis Stars: Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, Southern Community Choir Rated: PG-13 Rated: G A Festival of Films of Religious, Cultural Documentary, Music Drama, History, War and Philosophical Significance Young teenager Albert enlists to serve in World War I to search for his beloved horse, which A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with a choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, has been sold to the cavalry. Albert’s remarkable journey of utter devotion and incredible Los Angeles, in January 1972. bravery takes him out of England all the way to the front lines as the war rages on. Discussion Leader: Jim Hodges, University Christian Church Discussion Leader: Paul Harral, Broadway Baptist Church FRIDAY Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) 129 minutes Award-Winning and Nominated Short Films JANUARY Director: Stephen Daldry Stars: Thoman Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock The Phone Call (2013) 22 minutes 24 Rated: PG-13 Stars: Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent SATURDAY Adventure, Drama, Mystery A shy young lady working in a helpline call center receives a phone call from a mystery man. JANUARY A 9-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile and pacifist searches New York City for the lock She has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever. that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. 25 Discussion Leader: Jessica Vacketta, University Christian Church Watu Wote (All of Us) (2017) 22 minutes 2020 Amidst terrorist attacks by Al-Shabaab in Kenya, Muslim bus passengers show that an atmosphere The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) 113 minutes of solidarity and tolerance can prevail. Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo Rated: PG The Crush (2010) 15 minutes Drama An 8-year-old schoolboy has such a crush on his beautiful young teacher that he resorts to The true story of William Kamkwamba, a 13-year-old boy in Malawi, who — against all odds extreme measures to confront her boyfriend and win her over. — invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Discussion Leader: David Grebel, TCU/Broadway Baptist Church Alternative Math (2017) 9 minutes All Saints (2017) 108 minutes An experienced, well-meaning math teacher finds herself challenged by a post-fact America. Director: Steve Gorner Stars: John Corbett, Cara Buono, Myles Moore Rated: PG Drama Imitation is Suicide (2016) 5 minutes When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican A young teenage boy feels separated from society when all the people around him are 2 DAYS / 24 FILMS church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community, The consumed by electronic devices, isolating everyone from the real world all around them. Free and open to the public determined group of longtime church members and new ones work together as they strive Discussion Leader: Larry Ivy, University Christian Church to accomplish seemingly impossible goals. Discussion Leader: Ken Hall, University Christian Church RESERVATIONS SNACKS Online Lifelong.tcu.edu Throughout all the film showings FREE popcorn, coffee, hot chocolate and bottled water will be available in Phone 817-257-7132 Leap of Faith (1992) 108 minutes The Arches area at University Christian Church. Email [email protected] Director: Richard Pearce LUNCH Stars: Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich Lunch, catered by Zoe’s Kitchen, will be available on Saturday, January 25, starting at noon. Cost is $10 per Rated: PG-13 person and will include kabobs, rice, fruit, dessert and a drink. Paid reservations must be made by S P O N S O R E D B Y Comedy, Drama, Romance Wednesday, January 22. Please indicate if you would like a vegetarian selection. University Christian Church, Broadway Baptist Church Fake faith healer Jonas Nightingale is stranded in a small town where he finds he can’t fool Synopses and information are adapted from The Internet Database (imdb.com) and Netflix.com. and the TCU Office of Extended Education all of the people all of the time. Discussion Leader: Carol Ann West, Celebration Community Church All screenings held at University Christian Church 2720 S. University Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76109 FRI DAY EVENING January 24, 2020 @ 6:45 p.m.

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) 132 minutes I Can Only Imagine (2018) 110 minutes A Bag of Marbles (2017) 110 minutes Director: Peter Jackson Director: Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin Director: Christian Duguay Rated: R for violence, language, and intense thematic elements Stars: J. Michael Finley, Madeline Carroll, Dennis Quaid, Trace Adkins, Stars: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel Documentary, War, History Cloris Leachman Not Rated, but thematic elements of violence Original footage of World War I from the Imperial War Museum’s archives was restored Rated: PG for thematic elements with some violence Foreign, Drama – Subtitled in English using cutting-edge techniques to provide an immersive experience about the realities Drama, Family A fact-based French-language film (subtitles in English) about two young Jewish brothers of war. Never-before-seen and 100-year-old footage was edited to commemorate the Bart Millard suffers physical and emotional abuse from his father, Arthur, while growing up who evade the Nazis in occupied France during World War II. This powerful story highlights centennial of the end of the Great War in 1918. Includes narratives by actual WW I soldiers in Greenville, Texas. When Arthur becomes terminally ill, he finds redemption by embracing their ingenious skills in simply staying alive with deadly danger around every corner. and conversations about war and peace. his faith and rediscovering his love for his son. Years later, as Bart struggles with his troubled Discussion Leader: Kerry Neuhardt, Broadway Baptist Church Discussion Leader: Harry Parker, TCU/University Christian Church childhood and tumultuous relationship with his dad, he writes the song I Can Only Imagine as singer of the Christian band, MercyMe. Something the Lord Made (2004) 110 minutes Discussion Leader: Charlie Johnson, Bread Fellowship Director: Green Book (2018) 130 minutes Stars: , Yaslin Bey, Director: Peter Farrelly Rated: G Stars: Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, Linda Cardellini Dear Frankie (2004) 105 minutes Biography, Drama Rated: PG-13 for thematic content, language, racial epithets, some violence and Director: Shona Auerbach The true story about two heart surgery pioneers — one celebrated, one overlooked. Alfred suggestive material Stars: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler Blalock is chief surgeon at Johns Hopkins University, where he meets , a black Biography, Comedy, Drama Rated: PG-13 for violence, profanity, and intense thematic elements carpenter with a great interest in medicine who works there. Blalock hires Thomas as his lab A working-class Italian-American bouncer is hired as the driver for an African-American Drama, Romance assistant and together they develop a technique to correct a common congenital heart classical pianist on a concert tour through the Deep South in 1962. They confront Frankie’s single mother wants to protect her 9-year-old deaf son from a truth she has been defect in children. While they may work together in the operating room, society does racism and danger during the segregation era. Winner of three Academy Awards and avoiding for years. Frankie’s mother has been secretly responding to her son’s numerous not treat them the same. a Golden Globe. letters to his fictitious father who is supposedly away at sea on a merchant ship. When Frankie Discussion Leader: Jorene Swift, Celebration Community Church Discussion Leader: Ryon Price, Broadway Baptist Church discovers that the ship described in the letters is due to dock in his town, his mother creates a plan to conceal her deception for just one day. The Book of Henry (2017) 105 minutes Discussion Leader: Paul Hartman, University Christian Church Director: Colin Trevorrow Becoming Astrid (2018) 123 minutes Stars: Naomi Watts, Jaeden Martell, Jacob Tremblay Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen Rated: PG-13 Stars: Alba August, Maria Bonnevie, Trine Dyrholm, Henrik Rafaelsen Wide Awake (1998) 88 minutes Crime, Drama, Thriller Not Rated: Thematic elements with sex and nudity Director: M. Night Shyamalan Sometimes things are not always what they seem, especially in the small town where Foreign, Biography, Drama – Swedish with English subtitles Stars: Joseph Cross, Timothy Reifsnyder, Dana Delany, Denis Leary, the Carpenter family lives. This warm, charming, sometimes heart-rending film ultimately Best-selling children’s book author Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking, is Rosie O’Donnell brings a message of hope. Young Henry is driven by a powerful sense of injustice and is portrayed as a teenage girl living in a strictly religious family and community in 1920s Rated: PG determined to set things right. It’s an emotional rollercoaster with surprising twists. Sweden. When the spirited teen is lured into a secret affair with her employer, her orderly Comedy, Drama, Family What is written inside Henry’s little red book? life begins to unravel. The choices she makes will have profound influence, not only for This wholesome film is a tale of one young man’s heartfelt journey to find God and what he Discussion Leader: Charles Sanders, University Christian Church Astrid and her family, but for the literary world as well. discovers. It’s a rare story that carries meaning for young and old alike, examines profound Discussion Leader: Barbara Tucker, University Christian Church themes through the smallest events, and serves as a metaphor for the journey all of us take as we seek answers for life’s mysteries. Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998) 97 minutes Director: Tim McCanlies Discussion Leader: Shannon Moore, University Christian Church Stars: Brecklin Meyer, Peter Facinelli, Eddie Mills What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) 118 minutes Rated: PG Director: Lasse Hallström Comedy, Family Drama Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Darlene Cates, Mary Steenburgen, SATURDAY MORNING Four friends from the small Texas town of Dancer, Texas, are graduating from high school Juliette Lewis January 25, 2020 @ 10 a.m. and planning to move to L.A. after graduation, decreasing the population of Dancer from Rated: PG-13 for mature themes 81 to 77. The other 77 residents feel threatened by their decision and try to spoil their plans by all means possible. Drama (2018) 120 minutes After his father’s death, teenage Gilbert has to care for his mentally-impaired brother, On the Basis of Sex Discussion Leader: Jamie Plunkett, University Christian Church Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble, and his morbidly obese mother who can’t Director: Mimi Leder leave the house. Gilbert tries to carve out a life of his own despite being thrust into Stars: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux Far From the Tree (2017) 93 minutes Rated: PG-13 for some language and suggestive content the role of the “man of the house” to his dependent family. This situation is suddenly Directors: Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron challenged when love unexpectedly walks into his life. Biography, Drama Stars: Amy Allnutt, Jack Allnutt Harry Burdick Discussion Leader: Daralynn Deardorff, University Christian Church The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a Not Rated historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as the second woman serving as Documentary an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. One movie reviewer wrote that this movie “is nowhere near as groundbreaking as its real-life subject, but her extraordinary life makes Based on The New York Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far From the Tree a solid case for itself as an inspirational, well-acted biopic.” examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways. Discussion Leader: Mattie Compton, Broadway Baptist Church Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Jones, University Christian Church