The South Florida Museum's Film Fridays “Winter Stories”

Celebrate the start of the winter season with chilly tales complete with snow, ice, romance, thrills and laughs. The Museum’s popular Film Fridays program will offer “Winter Stories”:

December 2: “Desk Set” – 1957, Not Rated, 103 minutes.

Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in a battle of the sexes set during the holiday season. The comedy vets exchange barbs and witty dialogue as an engineer (Tracy) set on computerizing a TV network’s research department and the sharp-as-a-tack research librarian (Hepburn) who is set on stopping him in his tracks. Things heat up as their battle turns to romance.

December 9: “Fargo” – 1996, Rated R, 97 minutes.
It doesn’t get any colder than this! The Coen Brothers offer up a violent take on the black comedy set in the icy bleakness of winter in Minnesota and the Dakotas. A car salesman’s ill-formed scheme to get out of a financial jam goes gruesomely awry as the local sheriff (played with comedic brilliance by Frances McDormand) is hot on his trail. Not for the faint of heart!

December 16: “Groundhog Day” – 1993, Rated PG, 103 minutes.
Bill Murray is stuck in the wintery landscape of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania as a miserable weatherman who is forced to relive one of his least favorite times – the annual Groundhog Day Festival – again and again…and again.  Will he ever figure out how to dislodge himself from his karmic “rerun?” This comedy gem has it all – laughter, romance, adventure and heart.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for all Film Fridays events and guests are welcome to enjoy a selection of beer, wine, soft drinks and snacks available for purchase prior to and during the screening. Tickets to each film are $5/person for General Admission with discounted rates of $3/person for Museum Members. Sweaters or jackets are recommended as the theater may be cold. Seating is limited and reservations are strongly recommended.