Monday Night Movies

Shown every Monday from May 18 – September 28 at 7:30pm in Voorhies Hall.

Underwritten In Honor of Maximillion Denmark by Gretchen and Bob Fruchter.

Sponsored by Stafford’s Bay View Inn

2026 Film Schedule:

May 18Gifted – 2017, 101 mins.

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

May 25Driveways – 2019, 83 mins.

A lonely boy goes with his mother to help clean out his late aunt’s house and forms an unlikely friendship with the neighbor who is a war veteran.

June 1Hidden Figures – 2016, 127 mins.

Three female African-American mathematicians play a pivotal role in astronaut John Glenn’s launch into orbit while dealing with racial and gender discrimination.

June 8Rule Breakers – 2025, 120 mins.

In a nation where educating girls is rebellion, a visionary woman sparks hope and opposition. Their courage ignites a movement that could transform their nation forever.

June 15Kitchen Brigade – 2023, 97 mins. (subtitles)

Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children’s lives.

June 22Still Mine – 2012, 102 mins.

An elderly man fights government bureaucracy in order to build a new home for himself and his ailing wife. Threatened with jail time after receiving a stop-work order, the loyal husband stands his ground in this drama inspired by actual events.

June 29 Glory – 1989, 122 mins.

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

July 6Fantastic Mr. Fox – 2009, 87 mins.

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers’ retaliation.

July 13Ballad of Wallis Island – 2025, 99 mins.

An eccentric lottery winner, Charles, lives alone on a remote island but attempts to turn his dreams into reality by hiring his favorite musician, Herb McGwyer, to play an exclusive, private gig. Unbeknownst to Herb, Charles has also hired Herb’s ex-band mate and ex-girlfriend, Nell, with her new husband in tow, to perform the old favorites. As tempers flare and old tensions resurface, the stormy weather traps them all on the island.

July 20G Dog – 2012, 93 mins.

A look at the life and work of gang reformer Father Greg Boyle.

July 27The Dig – 2021, 121 mins.

August 3Those Who Remained – 2019, 83 mins. (subtitles)

A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of national conflict, loss and trauma, Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.

August 10My Mom Jayne – 2025, 105 mins.

Explores the life and legacy of Mariska Hargitay’s mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, who died tragically in a car accident at age 34 when Mariska was only three years old.

August 17The Friend – 2024, 119 mins.

When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.

August 24Dream Horse – 2020, 113 mins.

Based on true story/Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.

August 31The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – 2008, 94 mins.

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

September 7Bob Trevino Likes It – 2024, 105 mins.

When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life.

September 14North By Northwest – 1959, 136 mins.

Cary Grant stars as an innocent man mistaken for a spy in one of director Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers. While leaving New York’s Plaza Hotel, advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) has the misfortune of standing just as the name “George Kaplan” is paged–starting a lethal case of mistaken identity and a nonstop game of cat and mouse as he is pursued across North America by espionage agents trying to kill him–and by police who suspect him of murder.

September 15Dial M for Murder – 1954, 105 mins.

Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) wants to have his wealthy wife, Margot (Grace Kelly), murdered so he can get his hands on her inheritance. When he discovers her affair with Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), he comes up with the perfect plan to kill her. He blackmails an old acquaintance into carrying out the murder, but the carefully-orchestrated set-up goes awry, and Margot stays alive. Now Wendice must frantically scheme to outwit the police and avoid having his plot detected.

September 21Vindication Swim – 2024, 98 mins.

Mercedes Glutze swims the English Channel in the 1920’s.

September 28The Holdovers – 2023, 133 mins.

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

Monday Night Film Festival
Films are shown at Voorhies Hall beginning at 7:30pm.