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Friday, June 26, 2009

Freeport Cinema, at 3 & 7 p.m.

JULY 3 - Lovely and Amazing
The Marks family is a tightly knit quartet of women. Jane is the affluent matriarch whose three daughters seem to have nothing in common except a strange sort of idealism. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way. This is an independent film. Rated R; 89 min.; 2002.

JULY 10 - Changeling
Single mom Christine Collins leaves for work one day and comes home to find her son missing. five months later, the police return a boy to her, but she knows he is not her son. This film follows her struggle as a woman in 1920s Los Angeles trying to find out the truth about her child.
Rated R; 140 min.; 2008.


JULY 17 - Raise the Red Lantern
Songlian, a young educated woman in China must give up her future to become the wife of a wealthy landowner after her father dies. She soon realizes that her master’s attention carries power, status, and privilege. As the competition for the lord’s favor heats up, each wife schemes to make sure she has the red lantern at her door. This is an independent film. Rated PG; 125 min.; 1991.

JULY 24 - Atonement
Thirteen-year-old Briony forever changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit. This story unfolds during the course of World War II.
Rated R; 130 min.; 2007.

JULY 31 - Seven Pounds
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers. Rated PG-13; 123 min.; 2008.