40th Anniversary Film Series
October 16
The Graduate
Tukey Theatre
6:00 p.m.
Benjamin Braddock is a confused 21-year old who recently graduated college. His parents are expecting great things from him but Ben is worried about his future but who does not simply want to follow the commercial path of his affluent family and their friends. His life becomes complicated when he is embroiled in an affair with an older woman, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt him when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter.
November 13
Cool Hand Luke
Tukey Theatre
6:00 p.m.
Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The head of the gang hates Luke and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn't work, and he gains respect. Luke’s mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him?
February 19
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Tukey Theatre
6:00 p.m.
Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well-dressed and of a respectable California family), he's black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl's parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor's parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family.
March 18
Good Morning, Vietnam
Tukey Theatre
6:00 p.m.
A new disc jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on its ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who thinks he isn't G.I. enough. During his time away from the radio station, the disc jockey tries to meet Vietnamese -- especially girls -- and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.
April 22
Romeo & Juliet
Tukey Theatre
6:00 p.m.
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona Beach still retaining its original dialogue. The gun-toting members of the Montagues and Capulets families wage a vicious war on the streets when their children meet and fall in love. The star-crossed lovers have to hide their love from the world because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. Although it is set in modern times, it is still the same timeless story of the "star crossed lovers.”