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

Every Monday @ 2pm: 12/5: Indignation; 12/12: Bottle Shock; 12/19: Elvis & Nixon

Monday, December 5th at 2pm Indignation

Based on Philip Roth's late novel, Indignation takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner, a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus's growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton, and his clashes with the college's imposing Dean, Hawes Caudwell, put his and his family's best laid plans to the ultimate test.

Starring: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts
Release Year: 2016
Rating: R (for sexual content and some language)
Running Time: 110 Minutes

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Monday, December 12th at 2pmBottle Shock

Forty years ago, in 1976, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's strain in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his foreman Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and free spirit, mutually attracted to both Gustavo and Bo. As Spurrier organizes the "Judgment of Paris," Jim doesn't want to participate while Bo knows it's their only chance.

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Starring: Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine
Release Year: 2008
Rating: PG-13 (for brief strong language, some sexual content and a scene of drug use)
Running Time: 110 Minutes

Monday, December 19th at 2pmElvis & Nixon

On a December morning in 1970, the King of Rock 'n Roll showed up on the lawn of the White House to request a meeting with the most powerful man in the world, President Nixon. The untold true story behind this revealing, yet humorous moment in the Oval Office forever immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.

Starring: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey
Release Year: 2016
Rating: R (for some language)
Running Time: 86 Minutes

All movies are FREE and do not require registration.

Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library
165 Main Street, Matawan, NJ
732-583-9100
www.matawanaberdeenlibrary.com

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