CINESANITY offers...

  a FREE monthly movie on the Fourth Monday of each month,
at 7:00PM at Micah House, 1039 Main Street at Magnus Avenue. Screenings are
open to the general public. Persons concerned with mental illness or
addiction and in some way involved in the recovery process - persons with
lived experience, family members, service providers, and the community -
will find these events interesting. Free popcorn, snacks and drinks are
provided. A discussion follows the screening and there is an opportunity for
people to stay and visit if they wish.

We will continue our examination of the nature and qualities of
relationships in this true story of a man reuniting with his estranged
brother. In Laurens, Iowa in 1994 we meet Alvin Straight (Richard
Farnsworth), a 73-year-old man who walks using sticks, and lives with his
slow-witted (but not really) daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek). One night Alvin
gets a phone call from a hospital informing him that his 75-year-old
estranged brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) has suffered a stroke.

Determined to meet and patch things up with his brother before either one of
the dies, Alvin decides to visit him. The trouble is that Lyle lives over
300 miles away in Mount Zion, Wisconsin, and Alvin is legally unable to
drive a car due to his poor eyesight. Undaunted, Alvin hatches a plan: he
will drive his Rhoda lawn mower all the way.

 

Stan Rossowski
Programming Director
CINESANITY: Movies for Mental Wellness
1039 Main Street
Winnipeg, MB  R2W 3R2

T: 204 772 1037
E: cinesanity@mts.net

"Do not look back and ask why; look forward and ask, why not."
- Herbert L. Becker