[NABS-L] April Events

[Steve Cook]

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You are invited to all of the below events! We will be showing 3 audio
described movies this month along with Name That Tune! We hope your schedule
will allow you to join us. If you have any suggestions for upcoming movies,
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All event stake place at 8:00 PM Eastern on the below Zoom platform. Read
about each movie below the Zoom information. 

 

Friday, April 5, 2024

Wonka (2023)

 

Friday, April 12, 2024

Titanic [US] (1997)

 

Friday, April 19, 2024

A Star is Born 2018

 

Friday, April 26, 2024

Name That Tune

We will have tunes from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s to choose from. 

 

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Wonka


 

Run Time 1 hour & 56 minutes

Rating: PG

 

Willy Wonka,

an aspiring magician, inventor, and chocolatier, arrives in Europe to
establish his chocolate shop at The Galéries Gourmet. Burning through his
meager savings, he is coerced to stay at Mrs. Scrubitt's boarding house by
her henchman Bleacher and, despite orphan Noodle's warning about the fine
print, signs a contract because he is illiterate. To pay them off, Wonka
introduces "hoverchocs", chocolates that make people fly, facing opposition
from three rival chocolatiers who call the Chief of Police to confiscate
Wonka's earnings for disrupting trade and selling without a chocolate store.

Unable to pay the expensive fees imposed on him by the contract, 

Wonka is captured and forced to work in a launderette for Mrs. Scrubitt

alongside five other captives, including Noodle. Learning of a "Chocolate
Cartel" plot involving the rival chocolatiers, he makes his escape with the

help of Noodle; while he promises her a lifetime supply of chocolates, she
promises to teach him how to read. Wonka tells Noodle that his affinity for

chocolate stems from his late mother, and also alludes to the theft of his
chocolates by an enigmatic little orange man. The Cartel leaders meanwhile
bribe

the sweet-toothed Chief by providing him with his own supply of chocolates,
inducing him to force Wonka to leave town.

To produce his signature chocolate, Wonka and Noodle travel to the local
zoo, milking Abigail the giraffe. Together with the other launderette
workers,

they embark on a chocolate-selling crusade to alleviate their debts while
using tunnels underneath the city to evade the police. The persistent thief
of

Wonka's chocolates is unmasked as an 

Oompa Loompa

named Lofty, who reveals that the Oompa Loompas seek retribution for the
cocoa beans Wonka originally took from Loompaland under Lofty's watch. Wonka

captures Lofty, but Lofty dupes Wonka into freeing him; he tricks Wonka into
letting him strike him with a frying pan and snatches a jar of chocolate
before

disappearing.

Using the funds raised from selling chocolates, Wonka and the launderette
workers open Wonka's dream chocolate store. The Chief and the Cartel, who
are

now unable to arrest him since he has a legitimate shop, expose him to
Scrubitt. Infusing his chocolates with 

Yeti

sweat, Scrubitt incites chaos among the customers, leading to the
destruction of Wonka's store. Wonka reluctantly agrees to the Cartel's offer
to leave

town by ship to pay off everyone's debts. Because of this, all of the
workers are released from the launderette except Noodle; Cartel leader 

Arthur Slugworth

pays Scrubitt to keep her there indefinitely. Wonka deduces that Noodle and
Slugworth are related, before he and Lofty are forced to jump off the boat,

as it is rigged to explode. After rescuing Noodle, Wonka and the group
devise a strategy to obtain the Cartel's incriminating account book.

Using Abigail as a distraction, Wonka and Noodle infiltrate the Cartel's
base, where they are confronted by the Cartel. Slugworth discloses that
after

the death of Noodle's father, his own brother Zebedee, he falsely reported
Noodle as deceased to her mother, Dorothy, and gave her to Scrubitt in order

to eliminate her claim to the family fortune. Held at gunpoint, Wonka and
Noodle are nearly drowned in a vault of chocolate, but Lofty rescues them.

Wonka and Noodle expose the Cartel's misdeeds to the authorities and the
public. They release the Cartel's chocolate reserve through a fountain,
laced

with Wonka's unique ingredients, ruining the Cartel's enterprise. The Cartel
meets their downfall, and the police arrest the corrupt Chief. The public

revels in tasting Wonka's chocolate fountain, and Wonka unwraps the last
chocolate bar his mother had given him, discovering a golden paper with a
message

stating that "The secret is it's not the chocolate that matters, but who you
share it with." He splits the bar into six pieces to share with his friends

before reuniting Noodle with her mother Dorothy Smith. He then settles his
debt with Lofty and finds an abandoned castle for sale to start building his

own chocolate factory, with Lofty as his tasting chef.

Wonka's friends return to their old lives. Scrubitt and Bleacher attempt to
eliminate the evidence of sabotaging Wonka's shop, but they are arrested for

their complicity in the Cartel's scheme.

 


Titanic


 

Run Time 3 hours & 15 minutes

Rating: PG 13

 

In 1996, aboard the research vessel 

Akademik Mstislav Keldysh,

Brock Lovett and his team search the 

wreck of RMS Titanic.

They recover a safe they hope contains a necklace with a large diamond known
as the Heart of the Ocean. Instead, they find only a drawing of a young nude
woman wearing the necklace. The sketch is dated April 14, 1912, the same day
the Titanic 

struck the iceberg

that caused it to 

sink.

[Note 2]

After viewing a television news story about the discovery, 

centenarian

Rose Dawson Calvert contacts Lovett, identifying herself as the woman in the
drawing. Hoping she can help locate the necklace, Lovett brings Rose aboard

Keldysh, where she recounts her experiences as a Titanic passenger.

In 1912 

Southampton,

17-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, her wealthy fiancé Caledon "Cal" Hockley
and Rose's widowed mother Ruth board the Titanic. Ruth emphasizes that
Rose's marriage to Cal will resolve the family's financial problems and
maintain their upper-class status. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson, a poor young
artist, wins a third-class Titanic ticket in a poker game. After setting
sail, Rose, distraught over her loveless engagement, climbs over the stern
railing, intending to commit suicide. Jack coaxes her back onto the deck and
they develop a friendship. Jack soon admits that he has feelings for Rose.
When Cal and Ruth object, Rose rejects Jack's attentions, but returns to him
after realizing she has fallen in love.

Rose brings Jack to her state room and requests he draw her nude, wearing
only the Heart of the Ocean. They later evade Cal's servant, Lovejoy, and
have

sex in a 

Renault Towncar

inside the cargo hold. On the forward deck, they witness the ship's
collision with an iceberg and overhear its officers discussing its
seriousness. Cal

discovers Jack's sketch and an insulting note from Rose in his safe, along
with the necklace. When Jack and Rose return to warn the others about the
collision,

Cal has Lovejoy slip the necklace into Jack's pocket to frame him for theft.
Jack is confined in the 

master-at-arms'

office. Cal puts the necklace into his own overcoat pocket.

With the ship sinking, the crew prioritize women and children for
evacuation. Rose finds and frees Jack, and they make it back to the deck,
where Cal and

Jack urge Rose to board a lifeboat. Intending to save himself, Cal lies that
he will get Jack safely off the ship and wraps his overcoat around Rose. As

her lifeboat is lowered, Rose, unable to abandon Jack, jumps back onto the
ship. Cal grabs Lovejoy's pistol and chases Jack and Rose, but they escape.

Cal realizes the necklace is still in the coat he gave Rose. He poses as a
lost child's father to board a lifeboat.

Jack and Rose return to the deck. The ship's stern is rising as the flooded
bow sinks; the two desperately cling to the stern rail. The upended ship
breaks

in half and the bow section sinks. The stern slams back onto the ocean,
upends again and sinks. In the freezing water, Jack helps Rose onto a wood 

transom panel

among the debris, buoyant enough only for one person, and makes her promise
to survive. Jack dies of 

cold shock,

but Rose is among six people saved by the one returning lifeboat. 

RMS Carpathia

rescues the survivors. Rose avoids Cal and her mother by hiding among the
steerage passengers and giving her name as Rose Dawson. Still wearing Cal's

overcoat, she discovers the necklace tucked inside the pocket.

In the present, Rose says she heard that Cal committed suicide after losing
his fortune in the 

1929 Wall Street crash.

Lovett abandons his search after hearing Rose's story. Alone on the stern of
Keldysh, Rose takes the Heart of the Ocean, which has been in her possession
all along, and drops it into the sea over the wreck site. While she is
seemingly asleep in her bed,

[17]

her photos on the dresser depict a life of freedom and adventure inspired by
Jack. A young Rose reunites with Jack at the Titanic's 

Grand Staircase,

applauded by those who died that night.

 

 


A Star Is Born


 

Run Time 2 hours & 15 minutes

Rating: R

 

43-year-old Jackson "Jack" Maine, a famous 

country rock

singer privately battling an 

alcohol

and 

drug addiction,

plays at a concert. His primary support is Bobby, his manager and older
half-brother. After a show, Jack goes out for drinks and visits a 

drag bar

where he witnesses a tribute performance to 

Édith Piaf

by 31-year-old Ally, who works as a waitress and singer-songwriter. Jack is
amazed by her performance, and they spend the night talking to each other,

where Ally discusses her unsuccessful efforts in pursuing a professional
music career. Ally shares with Jack some lyrics she has been working on, and
he

tells her she is a talented songwriter and should perform her material.

Jack invites Ally to his next show. Despite her initial refusal, she attends
and, with Jack's encouragement, sings "

Shallow"

on stage with him. Jack invites Ally to go on tour with him, and they form a
romantic relationship. In 

Arizona,

Ally and Jack visit the ranch where Jack grew up and where his father is
buried, only to find that Bobby had sold the land, which was converted into
a 

wind farm.

Angered at his betrayal, Jack attacks Bobby, who subsequently quits as his
manager. Before doing so, Bobby reveals that he did inform Jack about the
sale, but Jack was too drunk to notice.

While on tour, Ally meets Rez, a record producer who offers her a contract.
Although visibly bothered, Jack still supports her decision. Rez refocuses

Ally away from country music and towards 

pop music.

Jack misses one of Ally's performances after he passes out drunk in public;
he recovers at the home of his best friend George "Noodles" Stone and later
makes up with Ally. There he proposes to Ally with an impromptu ring made
from a loop of a guitar string, and they are married that same day at a
church ministered by a relative of Noodles.

During Ally's performance on 

Saturday Night Live,

Bobby reconciles with Jack. Later, Ally and a drunken Jack fight over Ally's
growing artistic success. Jack criticizes Ally's new image and music, as her
success appears to be outpacing his recent decline in popularity. At the 

Grammy Awards,

where Ally is nominated for three awards, a visibly intoxicated Jack
performs a tribute to 

Roy Orbison.

Later in the evening, Ally wins the 

Best New Artist

award. When she goes up on stage to receive her award, a still-inebriated
Jack staggers up to her, where he publicly 

wets himself

and passes out. Ally's father, Lorenzo, berates a semi-conscious Jack while
Ally attempts to help Jack sober up. Jack joins a 

rehabilitation

program shortly thereafter. While recovering in rehab for about two months,
Jack discloses to his counselor that he tried to commit 

suicide

at age 12. He also mentions that he has hearing problems due to
progressively worsening 

tinnitus.

Jack tearfully apologizes to Ally for his behavior. While returning home,
Jack admits to Bobby that it was he whom he idolized and not their father.
Ally

asks Rez to bring Jack on her 

European

tour, but Rez refuses, prompting Ally to cancel the remainder of the tour,
so she can care for Jack. Later, while waiting at their home for Ally, Rez

confronts Jack and accuses him of nearly ruining Ally's career, stating that
Jack will certainly relapse again, and explains how "embarrassing" it is
that

she is married to him. That evening, Ally lies to Jack and tells him that
her record label has canceled her tour, so she can focus on her second
album.

Jack promises he will come to her concert that night, but after Ally leaves,
he hangs himself in their garage.

Grief-stricken and inconsolable after Jack's suicide, Ally is visited by
Bobby, who tells her that the suicide was Jack's own choice. The closing
scenes

reveal a flashback of Jack working on a song about his love for Ally, which
he never finished writing. Ally sings this song as a tribute to Jack,
introducing

herself for the first time as Ally Maine.