[NFBP-Talk] Upcoming Movies

[Steve Cook]

Hi All, 

 

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 each movie is below the Zoom platform information. 

 

Friday, November 4, 2022 at 8:00 PM Eastern Uncle Buck 

Friday, November 11, 2022 at 8:00 PM Eastern It Chapter 2

 


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Uncle Buck


 

Bob and Cindy Russell and their three children, 15-year-old Tia, 8-year-old
Miles, and 6-year-old Maizy, have recently moved from Indianapolis to the
Chicago suburbs due to Bob's promotion.

 

Bob has a brother named Buck. In contrast to the Russells' upper middle
class lifestyle, Buck lives in a small apartment in Wrigleyville, drinks,
smokes cigars, earns his living by betting on rigged horse races, and drives
a dilapidated 1977 Mercury. Buck also finds himself at odds with his
girlfriend of eight years, Chanice. She wants to get married and start a
family, but Buck is reluctant to do so as he loves his lifestyle. To quell
her dissatisfaction, Buck has grudgingly accepted a new job at her tire
shop.

 

At 12:02 AM, the family receives a phone call from Cindy's aunt in
Indianapolis informing them that her father has had a heart attack. They
make plans to leave immediately to be with him. After hearing the news, Tia,
bitter about being forced to move, accuses Cindy of abandoning her father.
Bob suggests asking Buck to come and watch the children, to which Cindy
objects as she considers Buck a bad influence and a failure.

 

Cindy suggests asking their neighbors the Nevilles for help instead while
also shooting down the idea of their neighbor Marcie watching them, but Bob
finds they are holidaying in Florida. Buck cheerfully accepts the job when
Bob calls him. When he informs Chanice that he cannot start his job yet due
to the family emergency, Chanice assumes Buck is trying as usual to lie his
way out of working.

 

Upon arriving, Buck deals with Cindy's cold demeanor towards him and finds
himself cropped out of Bob and Cindy's wedding picture. Nevertheless, he
quickly befriends Miles and Maizy, but Tia is brash and hostile as they
engage in a battle of wills. When Buck meets Tia's cocky obnoxious boyfriend
Bug, he warns her that Bug is only interested in her for sex and repeatedly
thwarts her plans to sneak away on dates with him.

 

Over the next several days, he deals with several situations in comedic
fashion, including taking the kids to his favourite bowling alley, making
enormous pancakes for Miles' birthday, removing the drunk Pooter the Clown
from the property, berating assistant principal Anita Hoargarth about
Maizy's behavior in class, and handling the laundry when the washing machine
does not work.

 

Eventually, Tia exacts revenge on Buck for meddling in her relationship by
tricking Chanice into thinking that Buck is cheating on her with Marcie. The
next day, Chanice comes over to confront Buck about what she heard, but is
furious to find Buck dancing with Marcie in the living room. Chanice leaves
him.

 

The following weekend, concerned after Tia sneaks out to a party, Buck
decides to go looking for her rather than attend a horse race which would
have provided him with enough money for the entire following year. He calls
and begs Chanice to watch Miles and Maizy as he searches for Tia. At the
party, thinking that Bug is taking advantage of her in a bedroom, he forces
the door open by drilling out the lock, but walks in on Bug forcing himself
on another girl. After he finds Tia wandering the streets, she tearfully
apologizes to him and acknowledges he was right about Bug. Buck then reveals
Bug, bound and gagged with duct tape, in the trunk of his car. After
intimidating him, Buck lets Bug out of the trunk to apologize to her. When
Bug is finally released, he threatens to sue Buck and retracts his apology,
but flees in fear after Buck strikes him with a golf ball.

 

At home, Tia helps Buck reconcile with Chanice by admitting her lie and
tells Chanice that Buck would be a good husband and father. Buck also agrees
to start his job at the garage, and he and Chanice reunite.

 

Cindy's father recovers and she and Bob return home from Indianapolis. Upon
entering the house, Tia surprises her mother with a hug. The entire Russell
family says farewell to Buck and Chanice as they leave for Chicago, with
Buck and Tia exchanging a loving wave goodbye.

 

Cast

John Candy as Buck Russell, a bachelor who babysits his brother's kids.

Jean Louisa Kelly as Tia Russell, the oldest daughter of Bob and Cindy.

Laurie Metcalf as Marcie Dahlgren-Frost, the neighbor of the Russells who
lives across the street.

Jay Underwood as Bug, Tia's boyfriend.

Amy Madigan as Chanice Kobolowski, the girlfriend of Buck and proprietor of
a tire shop.

Macaulay Culkin as Miles Russell, the only son of Bob and Cindy.

Gaby Hoffmann as Maizy Russell, the youngest daughter of Bob and Cindy.

Elaine Bromka as Cindy Russell, the wife of Bob.

Garrett M. Brown as Bob Russell, the brother of Buck.

Suzanne Shepherd as Anita Hoargarth, the strict assistant principal of
Maizy's school.

Mike Starr as Pooter the Clown, a birthday clown who Buck rejects for being
drunk.

Brian Tarantina as E. Roger Coswell, a friend of Buck.

William Windom as Voice of Mr. Hatfield, the unseen neighbor of the Russells
who Buck accidentally awakens upon his arrival.

Dennis Cockrum as Pal

Additional voices by Granville Ames, Patricia Arquette, Jack Blessing, Garin
Bouble, Ramey Ellis, Leigh French, Tim Hoskins, Laura Jacoby, Todd Larson,
Devon Odessa, Julie Payne, and Arnold F. Turner.


 


It Chapter 2


 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Cast

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.

Sophia Lillis as Young Beverly Marsh

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.

Jaeden Martell as Young Bill Denbrough

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.

Finn Wolfhard as Young Richie Tozier

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.

Chosen Jacobs as Young Mike Hanlon

Tristian Levi Cox and Torian Matthew Cox as 4-year-old Mike Hanlon

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.

Jeremy Ray Taylor as Young Ben Hanscom

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.

Jack Dylan Grazer as Young Eddie Kaspbrak

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.

Wyatt Oleff as Young Stanley Uris

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.

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).

 

Steve Cook

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