RICHMOND FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FILM DISCUSSION GROUP

The Film Club meets on the second Thursday of each month for discussion. Watch the featured movie of the month on your own and any other suggested movies with the same subject or theme.

Richmond Library will have some copies are available through inter-library loan. Most can be found on Netflix or Prime Video. 

The September 12th Film Club movies are listed below
Theme: Films Set in the Depression Era 
 
Featured: Grapes of Wrath (1940)
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land during the Great Depression.. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless. Directed by John Ford with Henry Fonda.
 
Others:
               Annie (1982)
In the depths of the 1930's, Annie lives in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks. A musical.
                Ironweed (1987)
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades during the Great Depression. Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
                Oh Brother Where Art Thou (2000)
               In the deep south during the 1930's, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. Coen Brothers film with George Clooney.
                My Man Godfrey (1936)
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler. The U.S. was plunged in a depression that forced thousands to the breadlines. The film opens with a treasure hunt and one of the items to find is a forgotten man. William Powell and Carole Lombard.