Wednesday Matinee at Darien Library – ‘Big Stone Gap’

Big Stone Gap (2014)  Starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg ; Rated PG-13; 103 minutes.  Presented with captions for the hearing impaired. Based upon the book by Adriana Trigiani  Ave Maria Mulligan has lived her whole life in tiny Big Stone Gap, a picturesque coal-mining town nestled in the hollers of southwestern Virginia. When she’s not making deliveries from her family’s pharmacy to far-flung neighbors, Ave Maria directs the annual outdoor drama festival, keeps chaste company with her longtime beau, Theodore, and exchanges good-natured barbs with local hunk Jack MacChesney. For more information, please watch the film’s trailer.  Check out what else we’re screening.