Wednesday Matinee Film Series at Darien Library

Wednesday, February 2 at 2 p.m. NOWHERE BOY (2010) Starring Aaron Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas; Rated R; 98 minutes

Imagine... John Lennon's childhood. Liverpool 1955: a smart and troubled fifteen-year-old is hungry for experience. In a family full of secrets, two incredible women clash over John: Mimi, the buttoned-up Aunt who raised him, and Julia, the prodigal mother. Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into the new and exciting world of rock n’ roll where his fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the teenage Paul McCartney. Just as John begins his new life, tragedy strikes. But a resilient young man finds his voice –  and an icon explodes into the world.

Wednesday, February 9 at 2 p.m. TOP SECRET ROSIES (2010) Documentary feature; Not rated; 60 minutes

In 1942 a secret US military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie to the factory, this search targeted female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the Army. From the bombing of Axis Europe to the assaults on Japanese strongholds, women worked round-the-clock shifts creating ballistics tables for every weapon in the US arsenal. Rosie made the weapons, but the female computers made them accurate. When the first electronic computer (ENIAC) was developed to aid the Army’s calculation efforts, six of these women were tapped to become its first programmers. While the work of these human computers proved crucial to allied victory, it also carried a moral weight - how to square the larger issue of ending a world war against the personal recognition that their mathematical computations made every Allied bomb and gun more deadly.

Wednesday, February 16 at 2 p.m. AMREEKA (2009) Rated PG-13; 96 minutes

Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card.

Wednesday, February 23 at 2 p.m. YOU AGAIN (2010) Starring Betty White, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Bell, and Sigourney Weaver; Rated PG; 105 minutes

When a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée’s true colors in this comedy.

Admission is free.

 For more information, visit darienlibrary.org or call 203-655-1234.

Darien Library is located at 1441 Post Road, Darien, Conn.

(Attached image: Poster for “Nowhere Boy”)