Surrounded by a small army of minions, Gru (Steve Carell) is planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon. Until one day he encounters three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential father.
Watch the trailer here.
Based on a true story, the movie tells of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. Amazing vocal performance by Meryl Streep. Also starring High Grant and Simon Helberg.
Doors open / refreshments 7.00pm. Film starts 7.30. Free showing.
Did you know the average Victorian woman’s clothes weighed 14lbs – no wonder they sat down a lot! Men judged the status and income of other men by their …buttons!
And novel writers from Thackeray to George Eliot used a language of cloth and stitch. At a time before sewing machines, every home was stuffed with cloth and girls could make a boys shirt before they were seven – every novel reader knew ‘work’ for women meant sewing, plain or fancy.
Join Grace Kempster for a romp through mid Victorian novels to reveal the codes and secret language of cloth and stitch.
Doors open 7.00pm, talk starts 7.30
Tickets (£5) available from the library or online at greenhill.bookwhen.com
Woody, a cowboy doll, is profoundly threatened and jealous when Buzz Lightyear, a new spaceman action figure, supplants him as top toy in Andy’s bedroom. Also featuring Mr Potato Head and Slinky the dog, this is the original (and best?) film of the series, dating from 1995. “To infinity and Beyond!”
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A favourite musical from 1964, starring Julie Andrews as Mary and Dick van Dyke as Bert the chimney sweep with the dreadful cockney accent. The Banks’ family children Jane nd Michael embark on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and Bert. Songs include “A Spoonful of Sugar”, “Chim Chim Cher-ee” and of course “Supercalifragilisgticexpialidocious”
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A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood. Starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds.
Note this is being shown on Saturday evening.
Watch the trailer here.
Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) and his children struggle to move forward in life after the death of their dear wife and mother. Seeking a fresh start for him and his two mourning children, Benjamin buys and endeavors to save the life of a dying zoo, and in turn the life of his little family. Also starring Scarlett Johansson.
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Jonathan Leighton talks about his first year as a member of the Visitor Experience Team at Chatsworth, and shares some of the literary and artistic links that abound at the house, some of which are obvious and others that might be a little less known.
Doors open / refreshments 7.00pm. Talk starts 7.30
Lindy Stone will talk about the activities that the Greener Greenhill network has been involved with since its inception three years ago – and why it was set up in the first place.
Doors open / refreshments 7.00pm. Talk starts 7.30
Tickets (£5) available from the library on online at greenhill.bookwhen.com
Harold Fry decides to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, old friend Queenie Hennessey will live. From the book by Rachel Hoyce. Starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton.
Doors open/refreshments 7.00pm. Film starts 7.30
Watch the trailer here