'The Sandlot' Opens Summer Film Series

Relive the ‘90s through the movies this summer at the Barrington library.

Starting tonight, July 9, the library will show a film for the whole family in its free Summer Family Film Series: I Love the ‘90s. Each film airs at 7 pm in the air-conditioned auditorium on a big screen with surround sound. 

The series runs through Aug. 20. All films are rated PG.

Here is the complete lineup: 

July 9—The Sandlot (1993) 101 mins.

It's the summer of 1962 and new kid Scotty Smalls can barely throw a baseball. That is, until he meets Benny "The Jet" Rodriquez who takes him under his wing and invites him to join the Sandlot boys in their neighborhood baseball games. Scotty doesn't know who Babe Ruth is, and this lack of knowledge gets the boys into the biggest pickle of the summer.

July 16—Troop Beverly Hills (1989) 100 mins.

Shelley Long stars as the modern day Beverly Hills Auntie Mame who, with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever, volunteers to lead her daughter's Wilderness Girl Troop. The result is a chaotic comedy as she guides her little band of intrepid troopers not only through forest, desert and swamp but through the more challenging wilds of Beverly
Hills and the pitfalls of pedicure etiquette, credit card capers, and backpacks by Giorgio.

July 23—Honey We Shrunk Ourselves (1997) 74 mins.

A tiny scientific glitch in one of Wayne's projects causes Wayne, his brother, and their wives to shrink big time! Soon they must brave household insects the size of dinosaurs, a treacherous loop-the-loop track in a toy car, dizzying balloon rides inside soap bubbles, and in their current size--a teen party they can't control. 

July 30—Holes (2003) 117 mins.

Sigourney Weaver plays a warden at Camp Green Lake with an unusual method of discipline. The camp makes all of its wards dig large holes under the guise of building character. The real reason is a plan to find a buried treasure left in the desert long ago.

August 6—Matilda (1996) 102 mins.

Matilda is a child of wondrous intelligence. Unfortunately, her stupid parents can barely tolerate what little time they do spend with her. When Matilda's parents send her to boarding school, it's to Crunchem Hall, an institution
ruthlessly ruled by the principal, Agatha Trunchbull, a hulking woman as awful as her name. But Matilda's fortune turns when Miss Honey, her first grade teacher, begins to believe in her.

August 13—Free Willy (1993) 112 mins.

Jesse, a troubled 12-year old, befriends Willy, an orca whale recently captured by the seaquarium. When the owner of the seaquarium plots to kill Willy for the insurance money, Jesse risks his life to free Will in this touching family adventure.

August 20—Problem Child (1990) 81 mins.

He's been called a three-foot high wrecking ball, a mischievous creep and a cross between Dennis the Menace and the devil...he's Junior age 7--a walking nightmare pawned off on unsuspecting couples by the Brutus Orphanage. Anyone who's ever been seven will enjoy
this uproarious tale, starring John Ritter, as Junior's latest father who hilariously tries to adjust his adopted kid before he destroys everyone and everything in his path.

For more information, visit www.barringtonlibrary.org or call 401-247-1920 x2.