[Charlotte-Mecklenburg-Chapter] January 2026 Events For All

[gerald moreno]

Hi All,

I hope you will share this announcement with everyone!

Below you will find a list of events for January 2026 for everyone. Hope you will join me for our audio described movies and trivia night!

Friday, January 2, 2026
Audio described movie takes place at 8:00 PM Eastern
People who attend will get to choose between the 1961 or 2021 movie for West Side Story

Friday, January 9, 2026
Audio described movie takes place at 8:00 PM Eastern
Bucket List

Friday, January 16, 2026
Audio described movie takes place at 8:00 PM Eastern
Castaway

Friday, January 30, 2026
Trivia Night takes place at 8:00 PM Eastern

SC Tech Talk returns on Saturday January 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM Eastern

Call in information:
Phone number: 19292056099
Meeting ID: 803 254 3777
Password: 124578

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Meeting ID: 803 254 3777
Passcode: 124578
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Bucket List

Two elderly men, blue-collar automotive mechanic Carter Chambers and billionaire Edward Cole, meet for the first time in a hospital owned by Edward after both men are diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

Carter, a gifted amateur historian and family man, wanted to become a history professor in his youth but chose to start a family instead. Edward, a four-time divorced healthcare tycoon and cultured loner, enjoys drinking kopi luwak, one of the most expensive coffees in the world and mocking his personal valet Matthew, whom he wrongly but intentionally calls Thomas.

While in the hospital, Carter and Edward manage to find common ground. For fun, Carter started writing a list of activities to do before he "kicks the bucket." After hearing he has less than a year to live, he dejectedly discards his list.

Edward finds the list the next morning and urges Carter to do everything on it, adds his own items and offers to finance all expenses. He agrees, although his wife Virginia objects, so the two patients begin their globetrotting last vacation along with Matthew. They go skydiving, drive a vintage Shelby Mustang and Dodge Challenger around California Speedway, fly over the North Pole, eat dinner at Chèvre d'or, visit the Taj Mahal, ride motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, attend a lion safari in Tanzania and visit Mount Everest.

Atop the Great Pyramid of Giza, they confide mutually about faith and family. Carter reveals that he has long been feeling less in love with his wife and feels some regret for his chosen path. Edward discloses that he is deeply hurt by his estrangement from his only daughter, who distanced herself after he drove away her abusive husband. Later, while in Hong Kong, Edward hires a prostitute to approach Carter, as he has never been with any woman but his wife. Carter declines and insists they stop the bucket list and go home.

During the return journey, Carter tries to reunite Edward with his estranged daughter. Considering this a breach of trust, Edward scolds him and then angrily storms off. Carter returns home to his family while Edward, feeling alone, breaks down weeping in his luxury home. Carter's family reunion turns out to be short-lived as, while readying for marital romance, he collapses and is rushed to the hospital. There, it is discovered that the cancer has spread to his brain. Edward, now in a remarkable remission, visits him to reconcile.

Carter, always a Jeopardy! fan and knowledgeable trivia fanatic, reveals how Edward's kopi luwak coffee is fed to and defecated by a jungle cat before being harvested. As the two laugh hysterically over the obscure fact, crossing off the item 'laugh to tears', Carter implores Edward to finish the list for him.

After Carter dies during surgery, Edward manages to reconcile with his own daughter, who introduces him to the granddaughter he never knew he had. After greeting the little girl by kissing her cheek, he thoughtfully crosses "kiss the most beautiful girl in the world" off the bucket list. Soon after, Edward delivers a eulogy at Carter's funeral, during which he explains that the last three months of Carter's life were, thanks to Carter, the best three months of his own.

An epilogue reveals that Edward lived to age 81 and Matthew then took his ashes to a peak in the Himalayas. As he places a Chock full o'Nuts coffee can of Edward's ashes alongside another can of Carter's ashes, he crosses off the last item on the bucket list, "witness something truly majestic", and tucks the completed list between the cans. A voice-over from Carter says that he thought Edward would have gotten a laugh out of being buried on the mountain as it is apparently against the law.

Cast
Jack Nicholson as Edward Perriman Cole
Morgan Freeman as Carter Chambers
Sean Hayes as Matthew / Thomas
Beverly Todd as Virginia Chambers
Rob Morrow as Dr Hollins
Alfonso Freeman as Roger Chambers
Rowena King as Angelica
Jennifer DeFrancisco as Emily Cole
Serena Reeder as Rachel
Annton Berry Jr as Kai
Verda Bridges as Chandra
Destiny Brownridge as Maya
Brian Copeland as Lee
Ian Anthony Dale as Instructor
Noel Guglielmi as Mechanic
Jonathan Hernandez as Manny
Andrea J. Johnson as Elizabeth
Jordan Lund as Tattoo Artist
Jonathan Mangum as Richard
Christopher Stapleton as Kyle
Alex Trebek as Himself
Taylor Ann Thompson as Edward's Granddaughter
Karen Maruyama as Nurse Shing

Castaway

In December 1995, a FedEx courier collects a package from a woman sculptor, whose gate carries the names "Dick & Bettina". The package, marked with a pair of golden angel wings, is delivered to her husband, who is in Moscow with another woman.

Meanwhile, Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems analyst who travels the world resolving productivity problems. He lives with his girlfriend Kelly Frears in Memphis, Tennessee. They talk of getting married, but keep experiencing setbacks because Chuck is constantly called away to work, straining their relationship. During a Christmas dinner, Chuck experiences recurring toothache, just before he is summoned to resolve a FedEx problem in Malaysia. Before leaving, Kelly gives Chuck her grandfather's pocket watch with a photo of her in it. He gives her a small box, saying she can wait to open it on New Year's Eve when he returns, implying it is an engagement ring.

The FedEx cargo plane Chuck boards is off-course, out of radio contact, and crashes into the Pacific Ocean during a violent storm, leaving him as the only survivor. Washing ashore on a deserted island, Chuck discovers several FedEx packages washing up on the coast, as well as the body of one of the pilots, Albert Miller, which he buries. In the following days, Chuck struggles to locate food and water. After seeing a ship on the horizon, he unsuccessfully tries to escape the island on a life raft, but is prevented by the tide and injures his leg. Realizing it is unlikely he will be rescued, Chuck opens most of the packages, finding items he uses to improve his living conditions. However, he does not open a package with golden wings painted on it, thinking the wings have symbolic meaning. While attempting to start a fire, Chuck cuts his hand and furiously throws several objects including a Wilson volleyball, leaving a bloody hand print. He draws a face into the blood, names the ball Wilson and begins talking to it. Chuck realizes the chances of his rescue are low because of the wide search area, and later contemplates suicide. Due to severe toothache, he successfully performs his own extraction using a rock and an ice-skate, but passes out from the pain.

Four years later, Chuck, now bearded and disheveled, has adapted to life alone on the island. After a section of a portable toilet enclosure washes up, he begins constructing a raft, which he successfully launches past the surf with Wilson, the unopened FedEx package and his belongings in tow. Chuck survives a storm, but afterward, Wilson falls off the raft and floats away. He unsuccessfully attempts to rescue Wilson and is left to grieve his loss. Soon after, he is rescued by a passing cargo ship.

After four weeks, Chuck returns to the mainland, where he learns he was presumed dead by his family and friends. As he is given a hero's welcome at the FedEx headquarters in Memphis, he is met by his dentist Jerry Lovett, who has married and had a daughter with Kelly, who is emotionally unable to greet Chuck. Later that night, he visits Kelly. Chuck returns the pocket watch and she returns his Jeep Cherokee, which she had kept after his disappearance. They share a passionate kiss and confess their love for each other, but realize she cannot leave her family and agree to part. Chuck tells his friend Stan he will miss Kelly, but his experience has taught him he must move on.

Chuck drives to Texas to return the angel-winged package to the address of the sender; the sculptor's home, where the gate now reads only "Bettina". A sculpture of golden wings stands in the yard. Finding no one home, he leaves it at the door with a note saying the package saved his life. He drives away and stops at a crossroads. The sculptor, in a pickup truck, headed in the direction of the house, stops and tells him where each road leads. As she leaves, Chuck notices the same angel wings painted on the tailgate of her truck. He looks down each road, choosing which way to go, and smiles when he faces the road taken by the truck.

Cast
A photograph of Tom Hanks
A photograph of Helen Hunt
A photograph of Nick Searcy
(Left to right) Tom Hanks (pictured in 2019), Helen Hunt (2011), and Nick Searcy (2014)
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems analyst
Helen Hunt as Kelly Frears, Chuck's girlfriend
Nick Searcy as Stan, Chuck's best friend and co-worker
Jenifer Lewis as Becca Twig
Geoffrey Blake as Maynard Graham
Peter Von Berg as Yuri
Chris Noth as Dr. Gerald "Jerry" Lovett, a dentist who is later Kelly's husband
Lari White as Bettina Peterson, a sculptor
Michael Forest as Pilot Jack
Viveka Davis as Pilot Gwen
Nan Martin as Kelly's mother
Dennis Letts as Dennis Larson
Valerie Wildman as Virginia Larson
Steve Monroe as Steve Larson
Elden Henson as Elden Madden
Timothy Stack as Morgan Stockton
Joe Conley as Joe Wally
Vin Martin as Pilot Albert "Al" Miller, a FedEx pilot who is buried by Chuck on the island
Garret Davis as Pilot Blaine
Jay Acovone as Pilot Peter
Fred Smith as himself
Steve Cook
I hope you will join me for audio describe movie night on the 1st 2nd and 3rd Fridays of each month at 8:00 PM Eastern. To obtain the Zoom information to join me, send me a message at cookcafe at sc.rr.com<mailto:cookcafe at sc.rr.com>

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