FREE movies for April from the Matawan-Aberdeen Library

Monday, April 2 – The Shape of Water
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture 2018
This is an other-worldly 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.

Starring: Sally Hawkins, Olivia Spencer
Release Year: 2017
Rating: R (for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language)
Running Time: 119 Minutes

Monday, April 9 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A darkly comic drama nominated for Best Picture: After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, placing three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Release Year: 2017
Rating: R (for violence, language throughout, and some sexual references)
Running Time: 115 Minutes

Monday, April 16 – The Greatest Snowman
Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams
Release Year: 2017
Rating: PG (for thematic elements including a brawl)
Running Time: 105 Minutes

Monday, April 23 – Phantom Thread
A romantic drama nominated for Best Picture: Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister are at the center of British fashion. Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

Starring: Daniel Day Lewis, Vicky Kreips
Release Year: 2017
Rating: R (for language)
Running Time: 130 Minutes

Monday, April 30 – The Post
A thrilling drama nominated for Best Picture: The Washington Post's Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers - and their very freedom - to help bring long-buried truths to light.

Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks
Release Year: 2017
Rating: PG-13 (for language and brief war violence)
Running Time: 116 Minutes

All movies are FREE and do not require registration.
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