Cinema Sundays 1/24, "Happy Tears"   Cinema Sundays Winter 2010 Series 47! Sunday January 24th, 2010 Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues its 47th series on January 24th, with the Baltimore Premier of Happy Tears. Written and Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. Starring Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin. 2009 USA Rated R. Running time 95 minutes. Synopsis Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy something-year-old father Joe (Rip Torn). Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. --© Roadside Attractions Click on the following for trailer and official site. http://happytears.net/ Cinema Sundays continues its 47th series on January 24th with the Baltimore Premiere of Happy Tears. Join our all star cast in another indie dysfunctional family extravaganza. Should be great fodder for discussion. At this point our speaker is TBA but I am scouring the streets and alleys of Baltimore for a perceptive soul! I want to thank Sharon Bisco for doing such a nice job with last week’s dysfunctional family in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee! Fabulous and insightful as always. Looking forward to seeing you on the 24th. Jonathan Palevsky Jpalevsky@aol.com If you’ve never been to Cinema Sundays before, see below for our stimulating, updated, yet official description. Precisely at 9:45 on a given Sunday morning, while birds chirp in the most musical manner, the doors at the Charles Theatre swing open to reveal a lobby replete with tasty bagels, hot coffee and friendly volunteers ready to serve them to you. All of our volunteers have been pre-tested for a complete lack of morning grouchiness and provide the nicest service…within reason! Guarded carefully by the enormous lobby penguin bagels, coffee and scintillating yet improvised conversation continues until 10:30. At precisely 10:30:07 some brief opening remarks by yours truly will be followed by a few remarks from our guest speaker who will never do either of two things. First he or she will never ever give away the plot of the film and second the speaker will not go on too long…especially if the film is one of those 2.5 h our Soviet era documentaries on the Romance of the Seven Tractor Drivers. Following a brief admonition not to talk during the film and a recommendation to sublet your cell phone to a starving student from the third world the screening will take place. Upon completion of the screening a robust question and answer session featuring our guest speaker will include your fascinating observations upon the recently screened movie. This flowery description barely describes the sublime joy and excitement which is Cinema Sundays. If there is a better way to spend Sunday mornings it simply hasn’t occurred to me….yet! Jonathan Palevsky Host of Cinema Sundays and completely reachable at JPalevsky@aol.com Please feel free to visit us at… Http://www.cinemasundays.com Tickets: $15 at the door. Or buy a mini-membership. 1711 N. Charles St. 410-727-3464 info: karenskicsc@comcast.net To unsubscribe from The Charles Theatre Mailing List visit: http://www.thecharles.com/mailinglist/