Academy Award Films Week 3: "Oliver!" and "The Theory of Everything" (Feb. 17-19)

Oliver! - Winner, Best Picture 1969
Rated G (2 hours, 33 minutes)
Tuesday, February 17 @ 1 pm

Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

The Theory of Everything - Nominated, Best Picture 2015
Rated PG-13 (2 hrs., 3 mins.)
Wednesday, February 18 @ 1 pm AND
Thursday, February 19 @ 5:30 pm
Starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones

The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen's body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.

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