Academy Awards Film Festival - The End!

This February we are hosting our first Academy Awards© Film Festival! We've chosen one movie from each of 6 decades: the 1940s through the 1990s. We'll be showing these on 3 Saturday afternoons in February. Below are the last two selections: Rain Man and Unforgiven.

Rain Man
Rated R (133 minutes)
Saturday, Feb. 25 @ 12 pm

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman and Best Picture-1988. Dustin Hoffman is a 'triumph' (People) ..., and Tom Cruise is 'terrific' (ABC Radio) in a film that's fascinating, touching and full of smart surprises' (Newsweek)! Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has just discovered he has an autistic brother named Raymond (Hoffman) and is now taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way around? From his refusal to drive on major highways to a four minutes to Wapner meltdown at an Oklahoma farmhouse, Raymond first pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience and then pulls him completely out of his self-centered world! But what began as an unsentimental journey for the Babbitt brothers becomes much more than the distance between two places it's a connection between two vastly different people and a poignant, profound and powerful film (Joel Siegel, ABC-TV)!

Unforgiven
Rated R (131 minutes)
Saturday, Feb. 25 @ 2:30 pm

Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. --Jeff Shannon
 

Admission is Free. Popcorn and water are provided courtesy of the Friends of the Lane Memorial Library.