[NFBWATlk] Events 4 All!

[Steve Cook]

If you are reading this, then  you are invited!! 

All events take place at 8:00 PM Eastern

Friday, November 3, 2023
Audio described movie Barbie

Friday, November 10, 2023
Audio described movie E T

Friday, November 24, 2023
Trivia Night 
Email David Bundy to preregister at bundy at POBox.com

Barbie

Run time: 1hour & 54 minutes

Stereotypical Barbie ("Barbie") and fellow dolls reside in Barbieland, a matriarchal society populated by different versions of Barbies, Kens, and a group of discontinued models, who are treated like outcasts due to their unconventional traits. While the Kens spend their days playing at the beach, considering it their profession, the Barbies hold prestigious jobs such as doctor, lawyer, and politician. Beach Ken ("Ken") is only happy when he is with Barbie, and seeks a closer relationship, but she rebuffs him in favour of other activities and female friendships.

One evening at a dance party, Barbie is suddenly stricken with worries about mortality. Overnight, she develops bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet, disrupting her usual routines the next day. She seeks out Weird Barbie, an outcast due to her disfigurement, who tells her she must find the child playing with her in the real world to cure her afflictions. Ken stows away in her convertible to join her, to which Barbie reluctantly agrees.

Arriving at Venice Beach, Barbie punches a man for groping her, leading to her and Ken's brief arrest. Alarmed by their presence, Mattel's CEO orders their recapture. Barbie tracks down her owner, a tween girl named Sasha, who criticizes her for encouraging unrealistic beauty standards. Distraught, Barbie discovers that Gloria, a Mattel employee and Sasha's mother, inadvertently catalyzed her existential crisis after Gloria began playing with Sasha's old Barbie toys in a similar state. Mattel attempts to put Barbie in a toy box for remanufacturing, but she escapes with Gloria and Sasha's help and they travel to Barbieland with Mattel executives in pursuit.

Meanwhile, Ken learns about patriarchy and feels respected for the first time. Returning to Barbieland, he persuades the other Kens to take over, and the Barbies are indoctrinated into submissive roles, such as agreeable girlfriends, housewives, and maids. Barbie arrives and fails to convince everyone to return to the way things were. She becomes depressed, but Gloria gives her a speech about society's conflicting expectations of women, restoring Barbie's self-confidence.

With the assistance of Sasha, Weird Barbie, Allan, and the discontinued dolls, Gloria's speech deprograms the Barbies from their indoctrination. They then manipulate the Kens into fighting amongst themselves, distracting them from enshrining male superiority into Barbieland's constitution, and the Barbies regain power. Having now experienced systemic oppression for themselves, the Barbies resolve to rectify the faults of their previous society, emphasizing better treatment of the Kens and all outcasts.

Barbie and Ken apologize to each other, acknowledging their mistakes. Ken bemoans his lack of purpose without Barbie, so she encourages him to find an autonomous identity. Barbie, who remains unsure of her own identity, meets with the spirit of Ruth Handler, Mattel co-founder and creator of the Barbie doll, who explains that Barbie's story has no set ending and her ever-evolving history surpasses her roots.

Barbie decides to become human and return to the real world, and is bidden goodbye by the Barbies, Kens, and Mattel executives. Sometime later, Gloria, her husband, and Sasha take Barbie, now going by the name "Barbara Handler", to her first gynecologist's appointment.

Cast
Margot Robbie at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.
Ryan Gosling at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling portray Barbie and Ken.
Margot Robbie as Barbie, often referred to as "Stereotypical Barbie"[10][11]
Main variations of Barbie played by:
Issa Rae as President Barbie[12][13]
Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie[14][13]
Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie[15][13]
Emma Mackey as Physicist Barbie[16][13]
Hari Nef as Dr. Barbie[13]
Sharon Rooney as Lawyer Barbie[12]
Ana Cruz Kayne as Judge Barbie[12][13]
Ritu Arya as Journalist Barbie[12][13]
Dua Lipa as Mermaid Barbie[17][13]
Nicola Coughlan as Diplomat Barbie[12][13]
Ryan Gosling as Ken, often referred to as "Beach Ken"[18]
Main variations of Ken played by:
Simu Liu as Tourist Ken/"Rival Ken"[19][20][13]
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Basketball Ken[12]
Ncuti Gatwa as Artist Ken[19][12]
Scott Evans as Stereotypical Ken[12]
John Cena as Kenmaid, a merman Ken[21][22]
Michael Cera as Allan[23]
America Ferrera as Gloria, a Mattel employee who helps Barbie in the real world[24]
Ariana Greenblatt as Sasha, Gloria's daughter[25][26]
Rhea Perlman as Ruth Handler, the co-founder of Mattel[5]
Helen Mirren as the narrator[27]
Will Ferrell as the CEO of Mattel[b][29]
Connor Swindells as Aaron Dinkins, a low-level Mattel employee
Jamie Demetriou as the CFO of Mattel
Emerald Fennell as Midge[30]
Asim Chaudhry as a Mattel warehouse employee
Ray Fearon as Dan at the FBI
Erica Ford as Skipper[31]
Hannah Khalique-Brown as "Growing Up" Skipper[32]
Mettenarrative as Barbie Video Girl
Marisa Abela as Teen Talk Barbie[33]
Lucy Boynton as Proust Barbie
Rob Brydon as Sugar Daddy Ken[12]
Tom Stourton as Earring Magic Ken[34]
Ann Roth as the woman on the bench[35]
Annie Mumolo as Anxiety Mom[36]
Lauren Holt as Time Mom[37][36]
Ryan Piers Williams as El Esposo de Gloria (Gloria's husband)[38]

E T

Run Time: 1 hour & 45 minutes
Rating: G

Aliens secretly visit Earth at night to gather plant specimens in a California forest. One of them separates from the group, fascinated by the distant city lights. U.S. government vehicles arrive and chase the startled creature. The other aliens depart, abandoning him on Earth. In a nearby neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, ten-year-old Elliott Taylor's suspicions are roused when he pitches a baseball into a tool shed, and the ball is rolled back. Later that night, Elliott returns with a flashlight, discovering the creature among the cornstalks. He shrieks and flees the scene.

Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott leaves a trail of candy to lure the alien into his house. Before bed, he realizes the alien is imitating his movements. The next morning, Elliott feigns sickness to stay home from school and play with him. He can "feel" the alien's thoughts and emotions, shown when the alien accidentally opens an umbrella, startling him and simultaneously Elliott several rooms away.

Later that day, Elliott introduces his older brother Michael and seven-year-old sister Gertie to the alien, deciding to keep him hidden from their mother, Mary. When the children ask the alien about his origins, he shows them by levitating several balls, representing his planetary system, and demonstrates his powers by reviving dead chrysanthemums. He demonstrates his healing power, through his glowing fingertip, on a minor cut on Elliott's finger.


Makeshift communicator used by E.T. to phone home. Among its parts is a Speak & Spell, an umbrella lined with aluminum foil, and a coffee can filled with other electronics.
At school the next day, Elliott begins to experience a much stronger empathic connection with the alien, including exhibiting signs of intoxication (because the alien is at Elliott's home, drinking beer and watching television) and freeing the frogs in his biology class. As the alien watches John Wayne kiss Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man on television, Elliott kisses a girl he likes similarly and is sent to the principal's office.

The alien dubs himself "E.T.", reading a comic strip where Buck Rogers, stranded, calls for help by building a makeshift communication device, and is inspired to try it himself. E.T. gets Elliott's help to build a device to "phone home" by using a Speak & Spell. Michael notices that E.T.'s health is declining and that Elliott is referring to himself as "we". Throughout this, the boys are unaware that E.T. is being tracked by government agents and that all three of them are being spied on.

On Halloween night, Michael and Elliott dress E.T. as a ghost to sneak him out. Elliott and E.T. head through the forest, where they successfully call home. The next day, Elliott wakes up in the field, finding E.T. gone. Elliott returns home to his worried family. Michael discovers E.T. dying next to a culvert and takes him home to an also-dying Elliott. Mary becomes horrified upon discovering her son's illness and the dying alien, just as a group of government agents dressed in biohazard suits led by "Keys" invades the house.

Scientists set up a lab at the house, asking Michael, Mary, and Gertie what they know about E.T. While the scientists are treating Elliott and E.T., the mental connection between Elliott and E.T. disappears. E.T. appears to die while Elliott recovers. Elliott is carried away, screaming that the doctors are killing E.T. as they try to revive him. When the doctors pronounce E.T. dead, Michael discovers that the chrysanthemums that E.T. previously revived are dying again. As Elliott recovers, the scientists first return him to his family, but then Keys leaves him alone with E.T. Elliott says a tearful goodbye, telling E.T. that he loves him before closing the case. Before long, E.T.'s heart light begins to glow, and Elliott notices that the chrysanthemum is once again coming back to life and opens the case. E.T. reanimates and tells Elliott that his people are returning.

Elliott and Michael steal the van that E.T. had been loaded into and a chase ensues, with Michael's friends joining them on bicycles, evading the authorities. Suddenly facing a police roadblock, E.T. helps them escape by using his telekinesis to lift them into the air just in time and towards the forest like he had done for Elliott before.

Standing near the spaceship, E.T.'s heart glows as he prepares to return home, while Mary, Gertie, and Keys show up. E.T. says goodbye to Michael and Gertie, as she presents him with the flower he had revived. Before boarding the spaceship, he embraces Elliott and tells him "I'll be right here", pointing his glowing finger to Elliott's forehead. He picks up the chrysanthemum and boards the spaceship. As the others watch it take off, the spaceship leaves a rainbow in the sky.

Cast





Henry Thomas (left), Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore respectively play the roles of Elliott, Mary, Keys, Michael and Gertie.
Henry Thomas as Elliott Taylor,[6][7] a 10-year-old boy who befriends E.T.
Pat Welsh, Steven Spielberg, and Kayden Green as E.T. (voiceover; uncredited)
Dee Wallace as Mary Taylor, a single mother to Elliott, Michael and Gertie
Peter Coyote as Keys, a government agent bent on capturing E.T.
Robert MacNaughton as Michael Taylor, Elliott and Gertie's older brother
Drew Barrymore as Gertie Taylor, Elliott and Michael's younger sister
K.C. Martel as Greg
C. Thomas Howell as Tyler
Sean Frye as Steve
Erika Eleniak as Pretty Girl
David O'Dell as Schoolboy
Richard Swingler as Science Teacher
Frank Toth as Policeman
Robert Barton as Ultra Sound Man
Michael Darrell as Van Man
Anne Lockhart as Nurse

Honey Baked Ham Fund Raiser

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Steve Cook
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Steve Cook
You are invited to join us on the 1st and 2nd Friday of each month at 8:00 PM Eastern for audio described movies using the below Zoom platform! 
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Meeting ID: 803 254 3777
Passcode: 124578