[NEohioPAL] Stocker Arts Center Film Series

[Allison Jack]

Hello!

Just a friendly reminder about next week's film in the Stocker Arts Center's Film Series on the Lorain County Community College campus. Films are featured on Fridays at 7:30 p.m. in the Hoke Theatre.

Evelyn
Friday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.
2002 (PG) 94 min. Ireland
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Bates, Sophie Vavasseur, Julianne Margulies

Pierce Brosnan plays Desmond Doyle, an alcoholic and a carpenter who has two sons and a daughter. When his wife abandons the family, the government social workers come around, size up the situation, and advise, "send in the nuns." The children are sent to orphanages, on the grounds, then sanctified in Irish law, that a father cannot raise children by himself. In this moving, ultimately uplifting drama, a father must fight the Church, the Irish courts, and tremendous odds in order to keep his family together. Based on a true story and set in 1950s Ireland, the film follows Desmond Doyle as he struggles to lovingly raise three young children alone. The Church and the Irish courts, however, determine and insist that the children instead be raised in an orphanage. Doyle defiantly vows to reunite his family at whatever the cost. Enlisting the help of friends, he attempts to do what, to that point, had never been attempted: challenge a law before the Irish Supreme Court. The devotion of this father will not be defied by any earthly power. Consequently, he alone effectively changes a horrible policy for all of Ireland and makes history in the process.

Tickets for films are $7 each. The Stocker Box Office is open Monday through Friday from noon to 6 p.m. and 90 minutes prior to ticketed events. Call (440) 366-4040 for tickets or for a season calendar. Tickets are also available online at www.stockerartscenter.com<http://www.stockerartscenter.com>. Click on "buy tickets."

For more information about the Stocker Film Series, please visit www.stockerartscenter.com<http://www.stockerartscenter.com> or contact Robert Dudash at rdudash @lorainccc.edu or (440) 366-7420.

Stocker Arts Center is located on the campus of Lorain County Community College at 1005 North Abbe Road, Elyria, Ohio. Parking on campus is free.



Allison Jack
Writer & Project Coordinator | Marketing & Communications
Lorain County Community College
(440) 366-7082

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