[Massachusetts-NFB] August Events!!!

Tue Aug 1 23:08:21 UTC 2023

If you are reading this, then you are invited! 

We hope you will share this message and also join us for the below events! 

All events start at 8:00 PM eastern

For more information on the movies, be sure to read below the Zoom information to join us

Friday, August 4, 2023

80 For Brady audio described movie

Friday, August 11, 2023

Sully audio described movie

Friday, August 25, 2023

Trivia Night To  preregister, Email David Bundy: bundy at pobox.com <mailto:bundy at pobox.com> 

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80 For Brady

In 2017, elderly best friends Lou, Trish, Maura, and Betty are massive fans of the New England Patriots, particularly the team's star quarterback Tom Brady, having become fans in 2001 while celebrating Lou's successful completion of chemotherapy. 15 years later, the four women are celebrating the Patriots' victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game and make plans for the Super Bowl LI watch party. The friends enter a competition for free tickets to the Super Bowl in Houston by sharing the stories of their Patriots fandom; Lou later announces their win and they prepare for their trip. On the day of their flight, the others break Maura out of her retirement home with help from her fellow resident, Mickey.

In Houston, they go to the NFL Experience, where Betty wins a chicken wing eating contest hosted by Guy Fieri, but loses the tickets. Trish meets former NFL player Dan O'Callahan and mutual attraction forms between them, but Trish is uncertain as she has not had a very successful love life; Dan invites her to a party, and the women decide to go upon learning about the loss of the tickets as Fieri will also be there. At the party, the women are given cannabis edibles which severely disorient them. Maura joins in on a game of poker in order to potentially buy new tickets, only to learn that the game is for charity; she gives her winnings to the charity of her top competitor, Gugu. Unable to find Fieri, the foursome return to their hotel.

The next day, the women go back to the NFL Experience but find it has closed down. They then go to the tailgate parties around NRG Stadium to see if they can buy any tickets from scalpers, but cannot afford them. Trish finds the radio hosts they won the tickets from and brings up the situation to them, but they are confused as they gave their tickets to a different group. Betty finds Fieri at the tailgate and recovers the bag with the tickets but when the women attempt to enter the stadium, the security guards reveal that the tickets are fake. Lou confesses that she bought the "tickets" online for an exorbitant price, as she wanted to have one last fun memory with her friends as she fears that her cancer may have returned. The other women console her and agree that even if they could not make it into the game, they are satisfied with all of their other memories. They run into Gugu, who sneaks them in under the guise of being backup dancers for Lady Gaga's halftime performance out of gratitude for Maura's actions the previous night.

They run into Dan who invites them into his box suite as his guests. Concerned as they watch the Atlanta Falcons build a 28–3 lead over the Patriots, they decide to sneak into the Patriots coordinators' booth. Betty hijacks the defensive coordinator's headset and gives him a playcall which leads to a sack, while Lou talks to Brady and gives him an inspirational message. The quartet return to their box suite and watch as Brady leads the Patriots to a victory. Maura reveals she made back the money Lou spent on the fake tickets by making a bet on the Patriots winning with the owner of the suite. The women are approached by security, and escorted to the Patriots' locker room, and thanked by the players for their dedication.

Three years later, Trish, Maura, Betty, and Lou, along with Mickey, and Lou's daughter Sara, prepare to watch Brady's first game with his new team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and it is revealed that Lou is in good health.[a] Sometime later, the four women sit on a beach with Brady discussing their retirements.[b]

Cast

Lily Tomlin as Lou

Jane Fonda as Trish

Rita Moreno as Maura

Sally Field as Betty

Tom Brady as himself

Billy Porter as Gugu

Harry Hamlin as Dan

Guy Fieri as himself[4]

Alex Moffat as Nat

Rob Corddry as Pat

Glynn Turman as Mickey

Ron Funches as Chip

Bob Balaban as Mark

Jimmy O. Yang as Tony

Matt Lauria as James

Sara Gilbert as Sara

Sally Kirkland as Ida

Andy Richter as Clark

Gus Kenworthy as Erik

Brian Jordan Alvarez as Derek

Marshawn Lynch as himself

Patton Oswalt as Brisket

Retta as herself[4]

Brady's former Patriots teammates Danny Amendola, Julian Edelman, and Rob Gronkowski have cameo appearances as themselves.[5]

Sully

On the afternoon of January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and First Officer Jeff Skiles board US Airways Flight 1549 from LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Three minutes into the flight, at an approximate altitude of 2,800 ft (850 m), the Airbus A320 strikes a flock of birds, damaging both engines. Without much time to think, they judge themselves as unable to reach nearby airports (Teterboro Airport being the closest), and Sully ditches the aircraft on the Hudson River. Though with mild injuries, the crew and passengers evacuate without any fatalities. Sully is hailed a hero, but still experiences the aftereffects, and finds himself unable to escape the attention of the press, which is not only targeting him but also his family.

Still in New York City for investigation reasons, Sully learns that preliminary data from ACARS suggest that the left engine was still running at idle power. Theoretically, it still had enough power to land the plane at either LaGuardia or Teterboro. Furthermore, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) claims that several confidential computerized simulations show similar results. Sully and Jeff firmly insist otherwise, and this opposition gradually intensifies the relationship between both parties.

The NTSB suspects it may be a case of pilot error, which would likely end Sully's career. He arranges to have the simulations rerun with live pilots, then relayed to the public. They result in successful landings. Sully debates that the simulations are unrealistic because they do not take human factors into account, such as the element of surprise, the time required for analysis and decision-making, and the significantly higher stakes he and Jeff faced; the simulation pilots knew in advance of the situation that they would face and of the suggested emergency action, were able to practice the scenario several times, had no passengers to think about, and were in no danger themselves. The NTSB accepts his criticism, and the simulations are rerun with a 35-second pause before the plane is diverted. The LaGuardia rerun ends with the plane landing short of the runway, and that to Teterboro with a crash into buildings before the airport. The NTSB announces that analysis of the port engine, now recovered from the river, confirms Sully's account that it had indeed been seriously damaged by the bird strike, and concludes that Sully had acted correctly in the event. Sully credits everyone on board, the air traffic controllers, the ferry crews, and the emergency response teams for the success.

Cast

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (left) portrayed by Tom Hanks (right)

Tom Hanks as Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger

Blake Jones as Sullenberger at 16 years old

Aaron Eckhart as Jeff Skiles

Laura Linney as Lorraine Sullenberger

Mike O'Malley as Charles Porter

Anna Gunn as Dr. Elizabeth Davis

Jamey Sheridan as Ben Edwards

Ann Cusack as Donna Dent

Autumn Reeser as Tess Sosa

Molly Hagan as Doreen Welsh

Jane Gabbert as Sheila Dail

Holt McCallany as Mike Cleary

Chris Bauer as Larry Rooney

Patch Darragh as Patrick Harten

Jerry Ferrara as Michael Delaney

Max Adler as Jimmy Stefanik

Sam Huntington as Jeff Kolodjay

Michael Rapaport as Pete the Bartender

Wayne Bastrup as Brian Kelly

Valerie Mahaffey as Diane Higgins

Jeff Kober as L. T. Cook

Molly Bernard as Alison

Vince Lombardi, the captain of the first ferry to reach the downed plane, appears as himself. Katie Couric also appears as herself. David Letterman appears via archive footage from the night he interviewed the real crew of Flight 1549 who are digitally swapped with their film counterparts.

The Computer Science & Technology Division of the NFB of SC has a great opportunity for you to win an Echo Show 5 and a Ring Doorbell! 

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