YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS FILM!!!
"The Kids Are All Right" film will be starting at the Carlisle Theater this Friday, September 10th, at 7:30 pm. The Wednesday night show will be followed by a panel-audience discussion with Professors from Women’s and Gender Studies Department. Admission for all showings is $2.00 if students buy their tickets at the Devil's Den.
Show Times:
Friday, Sept. 10, 2010
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7:30 PM
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Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010
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2:00 PM
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*Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010
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7:30 PM (Panel discussion to follow)
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Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
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7:30 PM
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Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) are in a long-term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relation- ship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield control, whereas Jules is less self-assured. She has floundered in her “nine to five” life, sometimes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay-at-home mom. They have two teen-aged children, Joni and Laser, who are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father.
Shortly after Joni’s eighteenth birthday, before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. He is Paul (Mark Ruffalo), a co-op farmer and restaurateur. Despite his seemingly successful businesses, Paul has always shirked responsibility, especially in his personal life. After Joni and Laser meet with Paul, Nic and Jules learn what their children have done, and although they don’t want Paul infiltrating their lives, they want to meet him, because Joni and Laser seem to want to maintain a link with him. As Paul’s relationship with the entire family grows, and as he hires Jules to design and construct his backyard, they have an effect on what he wants in life, and he in turn affects the family dynamic as well as each person’s relationships outside of the family.
The hit of the 2010 Sundance Festival, The Kids Are All Right has been praised by Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune: “”All right” doesn’t begin to describe it. The Kids Are All Right is wonderful. Here is a film that respects and enjoys all of its characters, the give-and-take and recklessness and wisdom of any functioning family unit, conventional or un-."
Sponsored by Dickinson College and the Dept. of Women's and Gender Studies at Dickinson College
Carlisle Theatre ◊ 40 West High Street ◊ Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013 ◊ (717) 258-0666
We hope to see you there!!
Susannah Bartlow, Lori Loudon and Yoleidy Rosario
Women’s Center