Show Times: Monday, June 30 - Thursday, July 10

The Visitor - howing in the Rosebud Cinema
June 30-July 3...4:30, 7:20
July 4-6...............2:15, 4:30, 7:20
July 7-10.............4:30, 7:20
July 9..................2:15, 4:30, 7:20

Wall-E - showing in the Rose Theatre
June 30-July 3...4:00, 7:00
July 4-6...............1:45, 4:00, 7:00
July 7-10..............4:00, 7:00
July 9.................1:45, 4:00, 7:00

General Admission: $8 - Seniors: $7 (62 and over) and Students (middle & high school with ASB card or student ID) - Children: $6 (12 and under) - Matinees: $1 less

The Visitor
Directed by: Tom McCarthy
Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hazz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Hiam Abbass
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language; 103 min.
View the Trailer: www.thevisitorfilm.com

Few people recognize actor Richard Jenkins by name, but his weathered face is as familiar to regular moviegoers as Mount Rushmore. In The Visitor, Jenkins finally gets a starring role, and he makes the most of the opportunity with a brilliantly sustained performance that gives depth, resonance and spiritual transcendence to what starts out to be one of his stock characters.

And the film itself - the second offering by Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent) - also is a gem, and more than just a showcase for Jenkins' performance.

Jenkins plays a mid-50-ish, Connecticut professor: a widow who goes through the paces of academic life without enthusiasm or joy, and has pretty much withdrawn from life, with no friends, family ties or emotional connection with anything.

One day he goes to the Manhattan condo he's owned for years but rarely visits, and finds it inhabited by two illegal aliens - a Syrian musician and his Senegalese girlfriend - who've been bilked into renting the place from a crooked real-estate agent.

He throws them out, but - seeing their plight - soon has second thoughts, and invites them back until they can find another place to stay. Gradually, he becomes inivolved in their lives and the gregarious Arab musician becomes a kind of surrogate son.

When the young man is caught by the immigration police and detained, awaiting deportation and what might be a death sentence back in Syria, the professor refuses to accept the injustice of it, and it becomes the defining - ennobling - event of his life.

The premise is simple and the conclusion preordained, but within this formula McCarthy has crafted a splendid emotional odyssey for this protagonist that pulls us right along for the ride and, in small but satisfying ways, goes against expectation at every turn.

"Oscar take note"-Rolling Stone

"Moving, humane and life-affirming"-The New York Observer

"Brilliant and nuanced performances"-Entertainment Tonight

"The year's first genuine must-see film."-The Washington Post

The fabulous Rhythm Planet will be playing before the Friday evening show of The Visitor, from 7:00 to 7:20. Please come early to enjoy the music.

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Wall-E
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Rated G; 97 minutes
View the Trailer: www.wall-e.com

Pixar has never had a flop. Now comes opus 9, perhaps the riskiest yet: a nearly photo-realistic, almost dialogue-free love story set in 2805, about a lonely garbage-compacting robot, WALL-E. Left behind on a refuse-covered, water-depleted Earth after mankind evacuates to giant spaceships orbiting the planet, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth class) has toiled for 700 years, making cubes of compacted trash. When the story opens he has only a cockroach for company, though an exceeding cute cockroach. Then a sleek, white-shelled probe droid called EVE shows up, and WALL-E is smitten.

As for the dialogue-free thing, there's a huge asterisk involved. There's actually plenty of talking - it's just not always in recognizable language. WALL-E, EVE, and the group of misfit bots they encounter communicate mostly in beeps and boops. While it may seem like a gamble to expect kids to sit through such an unorthodox feature, director Andrew Stanton knows a thing or two about holding the audience's attention. His last film was Finding Nemo.

"Pixar's most enthralling entertainment since Finding Nemo"-Time

Get a free Limited Edition Wall-E Watch with each redemption of a Child's Admission Ticket. Offer good while supplies last.

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