Friday, January 13th, 2012 @ 7PM in the Reading Room
A special after hours showing of
THE HELP

Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Walt Disney Pictures; Directed by Tate Taylor
Rated PG-13; 146 minutes; 2011

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 small 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.

January 23, 2012 @ 2PM

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
Universal Pictures; Directed by Robert Mulligan
Black and White; Not Rated; 129 minutes; 1962
Six-year-old Jean Louise "Scout" Finch (Mary Badham) is growing up in the Depression era of the early 1930s in a small Southern town in this highly acclaimed motion picture based on Harper Lee’s semi-autobiographical novel. Jean’s father (Gregory Peck), the town lawyer, is a wise, quiet man with a great sense of justice who defends a poor, black man accused of rape.