[Community-Service] Movie Night

[Erica Thomas]

Wow!

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 5:56 AM Steve Cook via Community-Service <
community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> We hope you will join us for our upcoming movies! The movies are the audio
> track only, no video. The movies we show are also audio described! A brief
> summary of the movie is below the Zoom platform information.
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> If you have any suggestions for movies, please send them to Steve Cook at
> cookcafe at sc.rr.com
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> Friday, November 11, 2022 at 8:00 PM Eastern It Chapter 2
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> It Chapter 2
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> Twenty-seven years after its initial defeat, Pennywise returns to Derry,
> Maine in 2016, and kills a man named Adrian Mellon by biting his heart out
> after he and his boyfriend are brutally assaulted in a hate crime by locals
> after visiting a carnival.
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> Mike Hanlon, the only member of the Losers Club who remained in Derry,
> calls the other members, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richie
> Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris to honor the promise they made 27
> years earlier to kill Pennywise if he came back. All of them return to
> Derry, except for Stanley, who kills himself out of fear of the creature.
> At a Chinese restaurant, Mike refreshes the Losers' memories before
> Pennywise itself reveals the news of Stanley's suicide to them. Richie and
> Eddie decide to leave until Beverly reveals that she has had psychic
> visions of their deaths should they fail to fulfil their oath. Meanwhile,
> It kills a young girl named Victoria at a baseball game after luring her
> into a trap.
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> Mike shows Bill, via a drug-induced vision, that the Native American
> "Ritual of Chüd" can stop It for good. Mike explains that the ritual
> requires items from their past to be sacrificed. Bill goes to the storm
> drain where Georgie was killed and recovers his paper sailboat. Beverly
> retrieves Ben’s love letter from her childhood home before being attacked
> by It in the form of a demonic elderly woman named Mrs. Kersh. Richie goes
> to an abandoned arcade where he finds a game token and encounters
> Pennywise, who confronts him on his hidden homosexuality. Ben returns to
> the town’s high school, while Eddie recovers an inhaler from a pharmacy and
> is attacked by the Leper. Meanwhile, Henry Bowers, who was arrested for
> killing his father, is freed from a mental hospital by It. Bowers viciously
> attacks Eddie at the Losers’ hotel, before attacking Mike at the library;
> Henry nearly kills Mike, but Richie kills him before he has the chance. The
> Losers then rejoin Bill—who just failed to save a young boy named Dean from
> being eaten by It—at the Neibolt House, and talk him out of facing It alone.
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> With their memories now fully restored, the group descends into a cavern
> beneath the sewers, with Mike providing a rock from the Losers' fight with
> the Bowers Gang as they perform the ritual in the remains of the meteor
> that brought It to Earth. The ritual traps the Deadlights, It's true form,
> in a sealing jar, but a giant red balloon emerges from the jar, and
> explodes, revealing It as a giant Pennywise-spider hybrid. The creature
> pressures Mike into revealing that It killed the Natives originally
> performing the ritual because their fears overtook them, a fact Mike had
> hidden from the Losers. It attacks the Losers and places Bill, Ben, and
> Beverly in individual traps, which they escape once Bill releases his guilt
> over being indirectly responsible for Georgie’s death, and when Beverly
> realizes Ben was the one who wrote the love letter to her. Mike stands up
> to the creature, only to almost get eaten, but Richie manages to distract
> It, getting caught in It's Deadlights in the process. Eddie saves him, but
> is fatally impaled. After Eddie explains how he made It feel small earlier,
> the Losers confront Pennywise on how they’ve overcome their fears, and are
> no longer scared of the entity, causing It to shrink. Mike rips out It's
> heart, which he and the Losers crush with their bare hands, finally killing
> It. Richie and the others rush to see Eddie but find out he has died from
> his injuries. The Losers are forced to leave Eddie's body, while It's
> cavern implodes, destroying the Neibolt House.
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> The remaining Losers return to their old swimming area and wash off from
> their confrontation with It, and join hands to comfort Richie as he mourns
> for Eddie. It's demise has also caused the scars on their hands to
> disappear. After the Losers part ways, Ben and Beverly get married, Richie
> returns to the kissing bridge where he had once carved his and Eddie's
> initials, Mike decides to move out of Derry and start a new life, and Bill
> begins writing his new story before receiving a call from Mike as he leaves
> Derry, learning that Stanley sent them all posthumous letters. The letters
> reveal that Stanley was too scared to face It, and that his suicide was
> intended to strengthen his friends against It. He asks the remaining Losers
> to "live life to the fullest potential," as a red balloon floats in the sky
> in the background.
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> Cast
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> Jessica Chastain as Beverly "Bev" Marsh: The only female member of the
> Losers Club, who was abused physically and sexually by her father and
> bullied at school over false rumors of promiscuity. Beverly has become a
> successful fashion designer in New York City while enduring an abusive
> marriage to Tom Rogan but later divorces him and marries Ben.
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> Sophia Lillis as Young Beverly Marsh
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> James McAvoy as William "Bill" Denbrough: The resourcefully determined
> former leader of the Losers Club who hunted down and defeated It in the
> summer of 1989. (Bill was primarily motivated by vengeance, because It
> killed and ate his younger brother, Georgie.) He swore that he and the
> other Losers would return to Derry if It resurfaced. As an adult, Bill is a
> successful mystery novelist in Los Angeles whose works are often criticized
> for having the same lame endings.
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> Jaeden Martell as Young Bill Denbrough
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> Bill Hader as Richard "Richie" Tozier: Bill's bespectacled best friend and
> fellow member of the Losers Club, whose loud mouth and foul language often
> get him into trouble, who also has secret romantic feelings for Eddie. As
> an adult, Richie becomes a successful stand-up comic in Chicago.
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> Finn Wolfhard as Young Richie Tozier
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> Isaiah Mustafa as Michael "Mike" Hanlon: A member of the Losers Club who
> fought against It. As an adult, Mike is the only one to stay in Derry and
> becomes the town librarian. The only one who remembers everything that
> happened in the previous film, he summons the other Losers back to Derry
> when It resurfaces.
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> Chosen Jacobs as Young Mike Hanlon
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> Tristian Levi Cox and Torian Matthew Cox as 4-year-old Mike Hanlon
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> Jay Ryan as Benjamin "Ben" Hanscom: A member of the Losers Club who fought
> against It, was bullied as a child for being overweight and had a crush on
> Beverly. As an adult, he is an attractive and successful but lonely
> architect living in upstate New York and running his own company called
> Hanscom Architecture.
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> Jeremy Ray Taylor as Young Ben Hanscom
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> James Ransone as Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak: A member of the Losers Club, a
> hypochondriac and victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. As an adult,
> Eddie is a successful risk analyst for an insurance firm in New York City
> and is married to Myra, who is very similar to his over-protective mother
> Sonia.
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> Jack Dylan Grazer as Young Eddie Kaspbrak
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> Andy Bean as Stanley "Stan" Uris: A pragmatic member of the Losers Club
> who aided in the battle against It in 1989. As an adult, he becomes a
> founding partner of a large accounting firm in Atlanta and is married to a
> woman named Patty Blum.
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> Wyatt Oleff as Young Stanley Uris
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> Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Dancing Clown: An ancient predatory
> creature from another dimension brought to Earth millions of years ago by a
> meteorite. It awakens every 27 years to feed on the fear of children that
> it kills. Pennywise is It's favorite and primary guise, although It is
> shown to take many in order to instill fear into It's victims. It was
> overpowered and seriously wounded by the Losers Club in 1989, forcing It
> into premature hibernation. This defeat motivates it to rebuild its
> strength and kill the Losers once they return to Derry.
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> Other guises of It include Joan Gregson as Mrs. Kersh, an apparently sweet
> and gentle elderly woman, actually a monster, who lives in Beverly's
> childhood home; Javier Botet as Hobo, a leper who encountered Eddie at the
> 29 Neibolt Street house, and also as The Witch, the monstrous form of Mrs.
> Kersh; Jackson Robert Scott as Georgie Denbrough, Bill's late younger
> brother; and Owen Teague as Patrick Hockstetter, a young hoodlum who was
> eaten by Pennywise in the sewers in 1989. It also briefly appears without
> clown makeup, under the alias Bob Gray (also Skarsgård).
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> Steve Cook
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> National Association of Guide Dog Users Board Member
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> President of the Computer Science & Technology Division of the National
> Federation of the Blind of SC
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> 1st Vice President of the Columbia chapter of the National Federation of
> the Blind of SC
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> 1st Vice President of the SC Association of Guide Dog Users Division
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