August Thursday Night Movies

August 1, 2024 – “Patch Adams”

Meet Patch Adams (Robin Williams), a doctor who doesn’t look, act or think like any doctor you’ve met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he’s willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh—even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story, Patch Adams combines side-splitting humor with an inspiring story that transcends the traditional comedy. (C) (1998) (1hr 55m) (PG-13).

August 8, 2024  –  “Tootsie”

New York actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is a talented perfectionist who is so hard on himself and others that his agent (Sydney Pollack) can no longer find work for him. After a soap opera audition goes poorly, Michael reinvents himself as actress Dorothy Michaels and wins the part. What was supposed to be a short-lived role turns into a long-term contract, but when Michael falls for his cast mate Julie (Jessica Lange), complications develop that could wreck everything. (C) (1982) (1h 56m) (PG).

August 15, 2024  –  “Crooked House”

In Agatha Christie’s most twisted tale, the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a wealthy patriarch is investigated by spy-turned-private-detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons), who is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather’s murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets. On the sprawling estate, amidst a poisonous atmosphere of bitterness, resentment and jealousy in a truly crooked house, Hayward encounters three generations of the dynasty, including a theater actress (Gillian Anderson), the old man’s widow 50 years his junior (Christina Hendricks), and the family matriarch Lady Edith de Haviland (Glenn Close). (C) (2017) (1h 55m) (PG-13).

August 22, 2024  –  “Mamma Mia”

Sophie has just one wish to make her wedding perfect: to have her father walk her down the aisle. Now she just has to find out who he is. Join the music, laughter and fun of the irresistibly charming Mamma Mia!  Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast, including Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth as well as up-and-comers Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper, in this musical celebration of mothers, daughters and fathers, and true loves lost and new ones found. Based on the Broadway smash-hit and filled with the ABBA songs you know and love. It’s the feel-good experience that will have you singing and dancing over and over again. (C) (2008) (1h 48m) (PG-13).

August 29, 2024  –  “Pretty Woman”

Lonely businessman Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) hires L.A. prostitute Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) to give him directions when he gets lost, and later to be his escort while he goes wheeling and dealing for a week. He buys her clothes, she softens his heart and the unlikely couple fall head over heels in love. (C) (1990) (1h 59m) (R).