Movie Nights
Teens can enjoy a movie with other teens in the Petty Auditorium of Skokie Public Library. Movies shown on Friday movie nights are specially selected for teen audiences, but adults are welcome to attend. And be sure to take a look at a list of teen flicks or view a list of books made into movies! For movie reviews written by teens, visit the Teen Ink site.
For more reviews, take a look at Skokie Public Library's staff recommendations.
| Friday, January 29 | Fame |
| Friday, February 19 | Michael Jackson's This Is It |
Fame
on Friday, January 29 at 7:00pm
in the Petty Auditorium
110 minutes - PG for thematic material, including teen drinking, a sexual situation, and language
A loose remake of the 1980 movie of the same title, the story focuses on several talented students who attend the New York City High School of Performing Arts. Starring Bebe Neuwirth, Debbie Allen, Megan Mullally, Thomas Dekker, Charles Dutton, Kelsey Grammer, and Kay Panabaker.
Michael Jackson's This Is It
on Friday, February 19 at 7:00pm
in the Petty Auditorium
111 minutes - PG for some suggestive choreography and scary images
This documentary shows Michael Jackson’s rehearsals and preparations for a sold-out concert series, scheduled to start in July 2009, but cancelled due to his death in June 2009.
Past movie night screenings have included:
- 17 Again available on DVD and Blu-ray
- 21 available on DVD
- August Rush available on DVD
- Be Kind Rewind available on DVD
- Becoming Jane available on DVD
- Beowulf available on DVD
- Blood & Chocolate available on DVD
- The Breakfast Club available on DVD
- Castle in the Sky available on DVD
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Coraline available on DVD and Blu-ray
- The Dark Knight available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Disturbia available on DVD
- Dracula available on DVD
- Eagle Eye available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Evan Almighty available on DVD
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off available on DVD and Blu-ray
- The Forbidden Kingdom available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Freedom Writers available on DVD
- Ghost Rider available on DVD
- Goal! The Dream Begins available on DVD
- The Golden Compass available on DVD
- Grave of the Fireflies available on DVD and VHS
- The Great Gatsby available on DVD and VHS
- Hancock available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army available on DVD and Blu-ray
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galazy available on DVD
- The Hobbit (animated) available on DVD
- Howl's Moving Castle available on DVD
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull available on DVD
- Invincible available on DVD
- Invisible Children available on DVD
- Iron Man available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action available on DVD
- Mamma Mia! available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Marie Antoinette available on DVD
- Metropolis available on DVD
- Millennium Actress available on DVD
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day available on DVD
- Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (feature film) available on DVD
- Monster House available on DVD
- Mr. Bean's Holiday available on DVD
- The Mummy available on DVD
- National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets available on DVD
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind available on DVD
- October Sky available on DVD
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop available on DVD
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest available on DVD
- Porco Rosso available on DVD
- The Princess Bride available on DVD
- Princess Mononoke available on DVD and VHS
- Quantum of Solace available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Remember the Titans available on DVD
- 10 Things I Hate About You available on DVD
- The School of Rock available on DVD
- Serenity available on DVD
- Shaolin Soccer available on DVD
- She's the Man available on DVD
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 available on DVD
- Sixteen Candles available on DVD
- Speed Racer available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Spider-Man available on DVD
- Spider-Man 3 available on DVD
- Spirited Away available on DVD and VHS
- Star Trek available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Stardust available on DVD
- Steamboy available on DVD
- Step Up available on DVD
- Step Up 2: The Streets available on DVD
- Stick It available on DVD
- Sydney White available on DVD
- Tokyo Godfathers available on DVD
- Transformers available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Twilight available on DVD and Blu-ray
- Van Helsing available on DVD
- We Are Marshall available on DVD
- Weird Science available on DVD
- Whale Rider available on DVD