Darien Library Friday Night Feature 2019
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‘Fast Color’ Darien Library’s Friday Night Feature

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Fast Color, a 2018 superhero movie, will be shown at 6:30 p.m., in the Community Room as Darien Library’s Friday Night Feature film. Hunted by mysterious forces, a young woman with supernatural abilities must go on the run when her powers are discovered. With nowhere else to go, she flees back to her family and the farmhouse she abandoned long ago. There, while being pursued by the local sheriff, she begins to mend the broken relationships with her mother and daughter and learns that the power she needed was inside her all along. The 100-minute film stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint, Christopher Denham, Saniyya Sidney, Jermaine Washington; rated PG-13 for a scene of violence and brief strong language.

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‘The Best of Enemies’ — Darien Library Friday Night Feature

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“The Best of Enemies,” a 2019 movie about a civil rights activist and Ku Klux Klan leader who come to work together, will be Darien Library’s Friday Night Feature on Friday, Aug. 2, with two showings. — an announcement from Darien Library

The first showing will be from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m.; the second, from 9 to 11:15 p.m. Both will be in the Community Room. All Darien Friday Night Feature films are free. In the movie, the two  come together to tackle racial segregation of schools in 1971 Durham, North Carolina.

Darien Library Friday Night Feature 2019
Movie poster The Best of Enemies 2019

‘The Best of Enemies’ — Darien Library Friday Night Feature

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“The Best of Enemies,” a 2019 movie about a civil rights activist and Ku Klux Klan leader who come to work together, will be Darien Library’s Friday Night Feature on Friday, Aug. 2, with two showings. — an announcement from Darien Library

The first showing will be from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m.; the second, from 9 to 11:15 p.m. Both will be in the Community Room. All Darien Friday Night Feature films are free. In the movie, the two  come together to tackle racial segregation of schools in 1971 Durham, North Carolina.

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Movie poster The Best of Enemies 2019

‘The Best of Enemies’ — Darien Library Friday Night Feature on Civil Rights Activist and Klan Member

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“The Best of Enemies,” a 2019 movie about a civil rights activist and Ku Klux Klan leader who come to work together, will be Darien Library’s Friday Night Feature on Friday, Aug. 2, with two showings. — an announcement from Darien Library

The first showing will be from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m.; the second, from 9 to 11:15 p.m. Both will be in the Community Room. All Darien Friday Night Feature films are free. In the movie, the two  come together to tackle racial segregation of schools in 1971 Durham, North Carolina.

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‘Isn’t It Romantic’ — Friday Night Film Feature at Darien Library

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In the 2019 film Isn’t It Romantic, after a woman is knocked unconscious in a mugging she wakes to find herself in a romantic comedy, despite hating the genre and being distrusting of romance. The film stars Rebel Wilson, Priyanka Chopra, Liam Hemsworth, Tom Ellis, Betty Gilpin; Rated PG-13 for language, some sexual content and brief nudity; 88 minutes; Presented with Captions for the hearing impaired. Official website | Metacritic | IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Wikipedia

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‘The Old Man and the Gun’ — Darien Library Friday Night Feature

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Darien Library is showing ‘The Old Man and the Gun,’ a 2018 movie starring Robert Redford, at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.

— an announcement from Darien Library

The film shown in the Community Room, runs 98 minutes and is free, like all Darien Library movie showings. The movie is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession. The film is rated PG-13 for brief strong language; 93 minutes; Presented with captions for the hearing impaired. ____________

Learn more about the film:

Official website | IMDb.com | Metacritic | Rotten Tomatoes | Wikipedia (film) | Wikipedia (Forrest Tucker)

—The Old Man and the Gun (New Yorker article from Jan.

Darien Library Friday Night Feature 2019

‘Unbroken: Path to Redemption’ — Darien Library Friday Night Feature

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Darien Library Friday is showing Unbroken: Path to Redemption about Olympian and WWII hero Louis Zamperini after the events of the 2014 movie Unbroken. It was produced by different moviemakers. — an announcement from Darien Library

The film will be presented twice on Friday night, Jan. 11, first from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m., then from 8:30 to 10:15 p.m. in the Community Room. The 98-minute movie is free, like all movies shown at Darien Library. Zamperini’s story continues as he meets and marries the love of his life while struggling with his post-war angst and trouble with alcohol, until a chance meeting with Billy Graham in 1949 changes both of their lives forever.

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‘Operation Finale’ — Darien Library Friday Night Feature

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Darien Library this Friday is showing Operation Finale, the 2018 movie about how a group of secret agents from Israel captured the man who masterminded the  Holocaust. — an announcement from Darien Library

The film will be shown twice, at 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 4 in the Community Room. The movie is two hours and two minutes long. Like all Friday Night Features at the Library, it’s free.

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‘Operation Finale’ — Darien Library Friday Night Feature

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Darien Library this Friday is showing Operation Finale, the 2018 movie about how a group of secret agents from Israel captured one of the masterminds of the Holocaust. — an announcement from Darien Library

The film will be shown twice, at 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 4 in the Community Room. The movie is two hours and two minutes long. Like all Friday Night Features at the Library, it’s free.