FAITHFUL LIVES FILM SERIES
January through May - 2012

Celebrating our 16th Year!

A monthly gathering to watch movies and discuss contemporary themes. Open for all to attend.

Courage in the Face of Hardship

Jan. 13 - Bucket List - Leader: Bryan Seekely
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.

Feb. 10 - Facing Forward - Leader: John Zitzner
Charismatic but troubled Tyree fights the odds of academic failure at a strict new inner city school. As teachers struggle to help this 7th grader succeed, life outside the classroom door soon puts everyone to the test.

Facing Forward is the documentary about the early years of E Prep School and focuses on a particular student and his family.  It premiered in front of packed audiences at the Cleveland Film Festival in March and was a runner up for the  Audience Choice Award for Best Film.  In October, it received a “Crystal Heart Award” for Best Documentary at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. Free will offering for the benefit of the filmmaker - Laura Paglin – to help defray costs incurred in finishing the film. Seating limited to 100.

Mar. 9 - The Kids Are Alright - Leader: Missy Shiverick
The Kids Are All Right is the heartfelt new comedy from acclaimed director Lisa Cholodenko, starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, and Mark Ruffalo. Two teenaged children (Alice in Wonderland’s Mia Wasikowska and Journey to the Center of the Earth’s Josh Hutcherson) get the notion to seek out their biological father and introduce him into the family life that their two mothers (Bening and Moore) have built for them. Once the donor (Ruffalo) is found, the household will never be the same, as family ties are defined, re—defined, and re—re—defined.

Apr. 13 - Sarah's Key - Leader: Kay McKenzie
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually over 8,000 were sent off to German concentration camps. As 10-year old Sarah and her family are being arrested, she hides her younger brother in a closet. After realizing she will not be allowed to go home, Sarah does whatever she can to get back to her brother. In 2009, a journalist named Julia is on assignment to write a story on the deported Jews in 1942. When she moves into her father-in-law's childhood apartment, she realizes it once belonged to the Strazynski family, and their daughter Sarah.

May 11 - The Help - Leaders: Dr. Doris Evans and Ann Kent
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), 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. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times.