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Registration for this activity is either not needed or not allowed online. Please see text below for additional information or call the Senior Center at 319-356-5220.

Join us each week to watch a different movie on the big screen! Snacks are provided, and it's always a good idea to dress in layers, just in case the room is too warm or cold.
Jan 2 – When Harry Met Sally (1989) – Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns believes. So when Harry meets Sally Albright and a deep friendship blossoms between them, Harry's determined not to let his attraction to Sally destroy it. But when a night of weakness ends in a morning of panic, can the pair avoid succumbing to Harry's fears by remaining friends and admitting they just might be the perfect match for each other? 1h:36m (https://youtu.be/-E10AcydCuk) Jan 9 – The Room Next Door (2024) – Ingrid and Martha (Julianne Moore; Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become a novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Separated by the circumstances of life and after years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation. 1h:46m (https://youtu.be/FLHSOFsZICk) Jan 16 – MLK / FBI (2020) – This documentary about the surveillance of King and his circle of activists provides a sobering reminder that a social justice movement — righteous but also built on nonviolence — was treated as a threat to national security by J. Edgar Hoover’s near fiefdom and Red Scare overreach. One wonders, had the FBI been as avid in its pursuit of the domestic terrorists who plotted King’s assassination as it was in making and exploiting recordings of King’s personal life, would the civil rights luminary have continued to live and to lead? 1h:46m (https://youtu.be/Lvfxzht9KUA) Jan 23 - The Wedding Banquet (2025) – Hoping to stay in the country, a gay man proposes a green card marriage to a female friend in exchange for paying for her IVF treatment. However, things soon get complicated when his grandmother surprises them with plans for an extravagant Korean wedding banquet. 1h:43m (https://youtu.be/kWy_IzW04YM) Jan 30 – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) –Bridget (Renée Zellweger), now a widowed single mother, must juggle work, parenthood and romance. With the help of her loyal friends, Bridget navigates encounters with a younger man and a series of awkward interactions with her son's science teacher as she strives to forge a new path toward life and love. 2h:04m (https://youtu.be/AZr9lYz12jw) Feb 6 – The World Will Tremble (2025) – The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust. 1h:48m (https://youtu.be/XOo51-v7sxM) Feb 13 – In the Summers (2024) - Siblings Violeta and Eva live with their mother, but travel every summer to New Mexico to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father in this moving drama that follows them from adolescence to adulthood. 1h:38m (https://youtu.be/rxqixUAI0TY) Feb 20 – Sovereign (2025) – Inspired by true events, Sovereign follows a struggling father who indoctrinates his young son into the radical sovereign citizen movement, where laws are mere illusion. As their beliefs spiral into extremism, they clash with an unyielding police chief in a confrontation that leads toward a deadly standoff. 1h:42m (https://youtu.be/_T4JHPowGbg) Feb 27 – Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale – In the summer of 1930, the Crawleys grapple with the threat of social disgrace when Mary finds herself at the centre of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble. 2h:03m (https://youtu.be/P_30wFRxlnA)

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AR at Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center