LSC Weekly Schedule

LSC Events for Wednesday, April 15 through Tuesday, April 21

Wednesday, April 15 Readings in Science Fiction: Michael Burstein & Nancy Kress movie picture
The Readings in Science Fiction series continues with Michael Burstein (winner of the 1997 John Campbell Award for best new science fiction author) and Nancy Kress (author of Beggars in Spain). Also sponsored by the Media in Transition project, the Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies, and Women's Studies. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Times:
7:00pm in 6-120

Friday, April 17 Lilies of the Field (1963)
PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE. A jobless GI finds himself in the care of a poor but hard-working group of nuns in this heart-warming tale of sacrifice and redemption starring Sidney Poitier. Poitier agrees to help the nuns by working their fields, and their kind spirits take the opportunity to work on his embittered soul. The uplifting story resonates with heavy, moralistic overtones that are the hallmark of this classic.
94 min, rated NR
Times:
7:30pm in Kresge

Friday, April 17 and Sunday, April 19

Good Will Hunting (1997) movie picture

PLEASE NOTE THE ADDITIONAL SHOWTIMES. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Robin Williams) and Best Original Screenplay (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon). Will Hunting (Damon) is a janitor at MIT, but he also has an incredible talent for physics and math: He anonymously solves problems that stump the local Course VIII's. With a little help from his psychologist (Williams) and his girlfriend (Minnie Driver), Hunting faces the challenge of rising above his troubled past to reach his potential.
126 min, rated R, with Dolby Spectral Recording sound
Times:
7:00 and 10:00 in 26-100 and 8:00 and 11:00 in 10-250 on 4/17
7:00 in 26-100pm on 4/19

Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19

As Good As It Gets (1997) movie picture

Winner of Academy Awards for Best Actor (Jack Nicholson) and Best Actress (Helen Hunt). This dramatic comedy from James L. Brooks has everything his audiences have come to expect: laughs and tears, fine writing, rich acting, social commentary, and a smile on the face as one exits the theatre. Nicholson plays a missing-some-marbles romance novelist who becomes involved with a struggling, single mother who works as a waitress (Hunt). Greg Kinnear also stars as a lonely gay artist whose sad fate draws him into the writer's and waitress's lives.
138 min, rated PG-13, with Dolby Spectral Recording sound
Times:
7 & 10:30pm on 4/18 in 26-100
10:00pm on 4/19 in 26-100

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