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Afternoon at the Movies - The Hunt for Red October

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Marko Ramios (Sean Connery), a pre-Glasnost Soviet nuclear sub captain, is planning to defect to the U.S. But with the exception of CIA Agent Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), the U.S. believes Marko’s plans are of a sinister nature. So begins the hunt for Red October. Rated PG; 135 minutes; 1990. For more information contact Steve Viggiano at 624-6550 x 323.

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Tuesday Night at the Movies - Iron Man

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Stane from misusing his research. Rated PG-13; 126 minutes; 2008. For more information, contact Steve Viggiano at 624-6550.

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Afternoon at the Movies - The Truman Show

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

From the day he was born Truman Burbank’s (Jim Carrey) life has been aired on television for the world to see. But Truman doesn’t know it. This insurance adjuster finds his mundane life upended when he realizes his life is actually a staged TV show, in this surrealistic tale set in New York City. Rated PG; 102 minutes, 1998.

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Shrek (PG-13)

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Come watch Shrek at the West Manchester Community Library!  For more information, call 624-6560.

Tags: Children · Movies · West Branch

Movie — Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (G)

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

After finding out she is the royal princess of Genovia in the first Princess Diaries, Mia Thermopolis has now moved to her “home” country. Still trying to adapt to her new lifestyle, Mia learns that according to Genovian law she must be married before she takes the throne as queen. A series of suitors and misadventures follow in this sequel to the 2002 smash hit. 115 minutes

Tags: Children · Movies · West Branch