Movie Monday at Ewa Beach in Celebration of Banned Books Week!

Ewa Beach Public & School Library will celebrate Banned Books Week with free screenings of two movies based on banned or challenged books on “Movie Monday,” September 28 in the meeting room:
• 3 p.m. – “Friday Night Lights.” Based on H.G. Bissinger’s best-selling true-life account of a few months in the life of a high-school football team, Friday Night Lights takes place in Odessa, TX, an oil town in the western part of the state that’s home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record in the state. The city’s economy is in a tailspin, and racial tensions still erupt into violence on occasion. Football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian’s football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines and his boys try to lead the team to victory. As Gaines works to build a winning team in a town where victory is prized above all else, his players struggle through the emotional trials common to any teenager and ponder the fact that there is little future in their hometown and that a championship season can be as much a burden as a triumph. This film is rated PG-13 (suitable for ages 12 and older).
• 5:30 p.m. – “A Wrinkle in Time.” Based on Madeleine L’Engle’s classic children’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time follows a pair of misfit siblings as they travel across time and space to save their father from enslavement. Meg Murry, a tomboy who fits in with neither the kids nor the teachers at her New England middle school, feels bereft when her scientist father vanishes, leading to unsavory speculation from small-town gossips. But thanks to Charles Wallace, her gifted but idiosyncratic younger brother, Meg befriends Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which – three cosmic beings to lead Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe on a journey to the sinister planet Camazotz, where Dr. Murry has been captured by the coercive power known as IT. This film is rated TV-PG (suitable for ages 5 and older). Young children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver.

Contact the library as soon as possible if a sign language interpreter or other special accommodation is needed.
Ewa Beach Public & School Library is located at 91-950 North Road. For more information, please call the library at 689-1204.