Family Movie Nights
To help families spend time together and share common experiences, the Institute provides recommendations for Family Movie Night. Each week, a new movie recommendation and explanation is available for your consideration. Enjoy the show!
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The Miracle Worker
After a severe illness at the age of one leaves her both blind and deaf, Helen Keller grows up unable to communicate and is easily frustrated. Having become a wild… Read More
Three Wishes
In a quiet 1950s American suburb, Jeanne Holman is doing her best to hold her family together after her husband is presumed dead in the Korean War. When she accidentally… Read More
Arthur the King
Due to strong language and some intense drama, this week’s film is more appropriate for older viewers. Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) is an experienced racer longing to finally win a… Read More
August Rush
Here’s a film appropriately titled for the beginning of August… Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) is a young orphan who hears music in the sounds all around him, from the wind… Read More
Wonderstruck
It’s 1977, and the young boy Ben knows nothing about his father. After his mother dies and an accident renders him deaf, he runs away from home in search of… Read More
Revolution
With America’s 250th Independence Day less than a week away, this week’s film takes us back to the war that made the celebration possible in the first place. In 1776,… Read More