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For Your Entertainment - DVDs April 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriAward-winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) delivers a stunningly powerful performance in this darkly comic drama that has been hailed as one of the year's best films. A murdered girl's defiant mother boldly paints three local billboards, each with a controversial message, igniting a furious battle with a volatile cop and the town's revered chief of police. MPAA Rating: R (Violence, language throughout, and some sexual references)
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22 Bullets Lifelong mobster Charly Mattei has turned over a new leaf and left his past as an outlaw behind him. With his former business firmly under his oldest friend's control, Charly has spent the last three years living a quiet, comfortable life, devoting himself to his wife and two young children. However, one winter morning he's left for dead in the underground parking garage of Marseille's Old Port with 22 bullets in his body. Against all odds, he will not die. After his miraculous recovery, he embarks on a hunt for vengeance that takes him back into the seedy criminal underworld he thought he'd left behind forever. Not Rated.
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The BreadwinnerHailed as "the best animated feature of 2017" (IndieWire) and "nothing short of exceptional" (Variety), The Breadwinner is an inspiring and vibrantly animated tale about the power of stories to sustain hope and carry us through dark times. Parvana is an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom - and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her family. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Thematic material including some violent images)
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Call Me By Your NameIt's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever. MPAA Rating: R (Sexual content, nudity and some language).
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Darkest Hour Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman gives a "towering performance" (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright's soaring drama Darkest Hour. As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill is elected the new Prime Minister. With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI skeptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen. Also starring Academy Award nominee Kristen Scott Thomas and Lily James, Darkest Hour is a powerful, inspirational drama. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Some thematic material)
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Disaster Artist The Disaster Artist is based on the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult-classic disasterpiece The Room ("The Greatest Bad Movie of All Time"). Director and star James Franco transforms the true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau - an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable - into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. MPAA Rating: R (Language throughout and some sexuality/nudity)
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Girl Without Hands Sebastien Laudenbach's utterly transporting, hand-painted masterpiece unfolds with the dream logic of a fairytale, taking you into the darker, primal origins of the Brothers Grimm's tales. In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes, but in revenge the Devil deprives her of her hands. Abandoning family and home, she sets off into the woods and begins her long journey towards the light. With magic and cruelty, sublime beauty and tenderness, The Girl Without Hands is at once timeless and unlike anything you have seen before, a stunning example of animation as a powerful cinematic art form for adult moviegoers. Not Rated.
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I, TonyaBased on the unbelievable but true events, I, Tonya is a dark comedic tale of American figure skater Tonya Harding and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous and poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Featuring an iconic turn by Margot Robbie as the fiery Harding, I, Tonya is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding's life and career in all of its unchecked - and checkered - glory. MPAA Rating: R (Pervasive language, violence, and some sexual content/nudity)
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JumanjiFour teenagers in detention discover an old videogame console with a game they've never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They'll have to complete the adventures of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever! MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Adventure action, suggestive content, and some language)
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Just Getting StartedMorgan Freeman stars as Duke Diver, the freewheeling manager of a luxury resort, the Villa Capri. Duke may have a mysterious past, but he's a pro at making life at the resort a non-stop party. But when ex-military charmer Leo (Tommy Lee Jones) checks in, Duke and Leo compete for the top spot of alpha male, as well as for the affections of the newly-arrived Suzie (Rene Russo). When Duke's past suddenly catches up with him, the rivals reluctantly team up to stop whoever is trying to kill Duke, and also save the Villa Capri. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Language, suggestive material and brief violence)
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Lady BirdChristine "Lady Bird" McPherson fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom, a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father loses his job. Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home. MPAA Rating: R (Language, sexual content, brief graphic nudity, and teen partying)
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Man Who Invented ChristmasThe Man Who Invented Christmas tells the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol. The film shows how Charles Dickens mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today. MPAA Rating: PG (Thematic elements and some mild language)
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Pitch Perfect 3Now graduated from college, realizing it takes more than a cappella to get by, all the Bellas return in the final chapter in the beloved series. After the highs of winning the World Championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there are no job prospects for making music with only your mouth. But when they get the chance to reunite for a European USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Crude and sexual content, language, and some action)
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Shape of WaterFrom master storyteller Guillermo del Toro come The Shape of Water, and otherworldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden, high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment. MPAA Rating: R (Sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language)
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Wonder WheelWonder Wheel tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s. Ginny, a melancholy, emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at he rfather's apartment. Poetically photographed, Wonder Wheel is a powerful dramatic tale of passion, violence, and betrayal that plays out against the picturesque tableau of 1950s Coney Island. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Thematic content, including some sexuality, language and smoking)
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FerdinandFrom the creators of Ice Age and Rio comes the most love-a-bull family comedy of the year! Ferdinand is a giant bull with a big heart. After being mistaken for a dangerous beast and torn from his home, he rallies a misfit team for an epic adventure in order to return to his family. Based on the classic children's book, and filled with nonstop fun and laughs, Ferdinand proves you can't judge a bull by its cover! MPAA Rating: PG (Rude humor, action and some thematic elements)
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Handmaid's TaleBased on Margaret Atwood's award-winning, best-selling novel, The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized "return to traditional values." As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is a Handmaid in the Commander's household, belonging to the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids - where anyone could be a spy for Gilead - with one goal: to survive and find the daughter who was taken from her. Not rated.
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The Leftovers, The Third and Final SeasonIn an instant, 140 million people vanished from the face of the earth. The cause of that incredible event that remains unknown, and there is no indication that those who are gone will ever be seen or heard from again. The Leftovers follows the lives that were forever changed by the event that shook the world on October 14. In the third season, the Garvey and Murphy families come together as they desperately grasp for a system of belief to better explain what defies explanation. The world is crackling with the energy of something big about to happen, a corresponding bookend to the Sudden Departure that sent them all spinning years earlier, bringing their journey Down Under. Not Rated.
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Monday, April 9 Get Connected! Tech Q & A 10:30 a.m. Have questions about your smartphone or tablet? Drop in to have your tech questions answered. Enroll online or at the library. Friday, April 13 New Resident Reception 7:00 p.m. Stop in to welcome new Cranbury residents!
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Saturday, April 14 Escape Room! 10:00 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. Solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to escape the room! Space is very limited, so enroll early! Recommended for ages 8 to adult. Enroll here for the 10:00 a.m. session, enroll here for the 11:30 a.m. session. Friday, May 4 The Chopsticks-Fork Principle 7:00 p.m. Cathy Bao Bean wrote a memoir and manual of how she and her husband, artist Bennett Bean, raised their son to be bicultural. Cathy will speak about her experience as an immigrant from China figuring out how to be herself as well as raise a son. As she attempts to satisfy disparate cultural norms, she provides us with a unique window into the experience of a bicultural family.
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