ROBBINSDALE AND CRYSTAL RECREATION DEPARTMENTS Winter 2020 Let’s Go To The Movies! Let’s Go To The Movies! is offered in Cooperation with the City of Crystal Senior Program Movie Descriptions are taken from Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. When: THURSDAYS (Dates listed below) 1:00-4:00 p.m. (Approximate, depends on length of movie) January 9 Marley & Me January 23 The Age of Adaline February 6 Some Like It Hot February 20 Forever Young March 5 The Lion King March 19 My Big Fat Greek Wedding Where: Police and Fire Building, Community Meeting Room (lower level) 4101 Hubbard Avenue North, Robbinsdale Fee: $1.00 (covers cost of refreshments, movie license, and movie) Register: To register or for more information, please call 763-531-1272 Join us on Thursdays (dates listed above) and enjoy an afternoon of great movies and snacks. Movies are shown on a projection screen with surround sound. Robbinsdale Recreation Services will show a mixture of classic and recent releases. Have a request? We’d love to hear it! So pull up a chair, feel free to bring a pillow for added comfort, sit back and enjoy our feature film on the big screen. Thanks to Video Universe in Robin Center for supporting Let’s Go To The Movies! with their great movie collection!! “THE MOVIES”….. January 9 Marley & Me Director: David Frankel 2008 115 minutes Starring: Owen Wilson & Jennifer Aniston As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Fla. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage, new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to start a family. Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John should get Jenny a puppy. The Grogans adopt the cute, 12-pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area. He flunks obedience school, chews off dry-wall, takes a bite out of the sofa, overturns garbage cans, steals a Thanksgiving turkey, consumes pillows and flowers, drinks toilet water, and chases the UPS guy. Even a newly-purchased, expensive necklace isn't safe from Marley's voracious antics. Amidst the mayhem he generates through the years, Marley sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of family life, through job and home changes, and most of all, through the myriad challenges of a growing family. As John and Jenny come to realize, Marley--"the world's worst dog"--somehow brings out the best in them. January 23 The Age of Adaline Director: Lee Toland Krieger 2015 112 minutes Starring: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, & Harrison Ford After miraculously remaining 29 years old for almost eight decades, Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) has lived a solitary existence, never allowing herself to get close to anyone who might reveal her secret. But a chance encounter with charismatic philanthropist Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman) reignites her passion for life and romance. When a weekend with his parents (Harrison Ford and Kathy Baker) threatens to uncover the truth, Adaline makes a decision that will change her life forever. (C) Lionsgate February 6 Some Like It Hot Director: John Huston & Billy Wilder 1959 120 minutes Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, & Jack Lemmon Two Struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and are now on the run from the Mob. Jerry and Joe cross-dress into an all female band. In addition to hiding, each has his own problems; One falls for another band member but can't tell her his gender, and the other has a rich suitor who will not take "No," for an answer. February 20 Forever Young Director: Steve Miner 1992 102 minutes Starring: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, & Elijah Wood In this three-hanky romantic melodrama, a test pilot, distraught over the death of his girlfriend, volunteers to be a subject in a risky experiment and allows himself to be cryogenically frozen for 12 months. The year is 1939 and he is to come out in 1940. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and he is forgotten. Fifty years later, a pair of kids find the remains of the test facility and thaw him out. He comes out just fine and ends up having a wonderful effect on the lives of one of the kids and his attractive single mother while trying to adjust his new world. The sad part comes when he learns that his lover from long ago was only in a coma and fully recovered. March 5 The Lion King Director: Jon Favreau 2019 110 minutes Starring: Donald Glover, James Earl Jones, Billy Eichner, & Seth Rogen From Disney Live Action, director Jon Favreau's all-new "The Lion King" journeys to the African savanna where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother-and former heir to the throne-has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his. March 19 My Big Fat Greek Wedding Director: Joel Zwick 2002 95 minutes Starring: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, & Lainie KazanToula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it's his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt's travel agency (again making her father think it's his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula's huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself. .