FREE movies for the month of August from the Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library

Monday, August 7th at 2pm – Beauty and the Beast
Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" is a live-action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs. "Beauty and the Beast" is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast's hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within.

Starring: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens IV
Release Year: 2017
Rating: PG (for action violence, peril and frightening images)
Running Time: 129 Minutes

Monday, August 14th – Gifted
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary. Octavia Spencer plays Roberta, Frank and Mary's landlady and best friend. Jenny Slate is Mary's teacher, Bonnie, a young woman whose concern for her student develops into a connection with her uncle as well.

Starring: Chris Evans, McKenna Grace
Release Year: 2017
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, language and some suggestive material)
Running Time: 101 Minutes

Monday, August 21st at 2pm – NASA Coverage of the Solar Eclipse

Monday, August 28th at 2pm – Going in Style
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe and Al, decide to buck retirement and step off the straight-and-narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty, in director Zach Braff's comedy "Going in Style." Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin
Release Year: 2017
Rating: PG-13 (for drug content, language and a scene of sexuality)
Running Time: 97 Minutes

All movies are FREE and do not require registration.

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