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Thursday Movies@Main
2022-12-01 18:30:00
2022-12-01 20:00:00
America/New_York
Thursday Movies@Main
Movies on the big screen every Thursday at 6:30 pm. Relax and enjoy classics or recent blockbusters in Main Library’s auditorium. Free parking on weekdays after 6 pm with a voucher from the Library.
Main Library - Auditorium
Thursday, December 01
6:30pm - 8:00pm
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2022-12-01 18:30:00
2022-12-01 20:00:00
America/New_York
Thursday Movies@Main
Movies on the big screen every Thursday at 6:30 pm. Relax and enjoy classics or recent blockbusters in Main Library’s auditorium. Free parking on weekdays after 6 pm with a voucher from the Library.
Main Library - Auditorium
Main Library
AuditoriumMovies on the big screen every Thursday at 6:30 pm. Relax and enjoy classics or recent blockbusters in Main Library’s auditorium. Free parking on weekdays after 6 pm with a voucher from the Library.
Movies@Main for the Holidays
December 1, 6:30 pm: Cash on Demand (1961) This Hammer suspense bank heist film is a clever retelling of A Christmas Carol, with bank manager Peter Cushing confronted by Andre Morell, as the thief who knows him all too well. Film noir in Christmas wrapping! 89 min.
December 8, 6:30 pm: Remember the Night (1940) Prosecuting attorney Fred MacMurray takes shoplifter Barbara Stanwyck home, so she doesn't spend Christmas behind bars. Complications ensue with a snappy script by Preston Sturges, 94 min.
December 15, 6:30 pm: An American Tail (1986) Don Bluth's animated Holocaust parable about the immigrant Mousekewitz family contains a heartfelt Hanukkah scene during the family's peril, G, 80 min.
December 22, 6:30 pm: A Christmas Carol (1951) One of the most beloved versions of the Dickens classic. Alistair Sim portrays Scrooge, with Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit, 86 min.
December 29, 6:30 pm: One Way Passage (1932) William Powell and Kay Francis star in this melancholy, evocative tale of a terminally ill woman and a convicted murderer who share a pact to meet on New Year's Eve. It won an Oscar for Best Original Script and has Frank McHugh thrown in for comic relief. Go home afterward and cry over a Paradise Cocktail. 67 min.
Get your parking validation ticket at the Security Desk and then relax in Main Library's 400-seat auditorium.
Contact the Culture & AV Division at 330.643.9015 or cadiv@akronlibrary.org for more information.
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Drive-up Window closes fifteen minutes before the building closes for the day.
Main Library, located in the heart of downtown Akron, combines compelling public space with meaningful and relevant public library services for all members of our community. Since opening in 2004, the downtown library welcomes more than one million visitors each year.
Subject divisions include: Business, Government & Science, Culture & AV, Magazines & Newspapers, Special Collections (local history & genealogy), TechZone@Main, Teen, and a 12,000 square feet Children's Library.
Special services available at Main Library include: a Patent & Trademark Resource Center; U.S. Passport and Notary services; a Microbusiness Center; a Maker Space; a resource lab for early childhood educators; and regularly scheduled computer training classes. Also available at Main Library are more than 125 public access computers, color photocopiers/printers, laminating, scanning, faxing, and free Wi-Fi.
Specialized spaces include a 425-seat auditorium, public meeting rooms, and a used bookstore. An interior glass block walkway leads to a 600-space parking garage owned by the City of Akron. An outdoor amphitheater and landscaped park complete the complex.