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March Movies on The Emerson Channel



The Emerson Channel airs 16 feature length theatrical films every month (September-May).  Movies include new hit releases, documentaries, and film classics. To check out times for our other programming click here!

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lawabiding  Law Abiding Citizen

This thriller focuses on a man who, ten years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, returns to extract justice from the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case against their killers. His vengeance threatens not only the man who allowed mercy to supersede justice, but also the system and the city that made it so.



 

fame  Fame

FAME is an electrifying musical-drama set in Manhattan's celebrated High School of the Performing Arts. It is an incisive look at the hopes and dreams of eight young people vying for a foothold in the world of show business.

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Fried Green Tomatoes

From the crazy mind of Adam Sandler comes this animated holiday feature.  Davey Stone is an aging party animal who finds himself in trouble with the law after a series of near-misses.  Struck with the holiday spirit a judge gives Davey a sentence of community service – specifically to referee a youth basketball league.  He thinks he has a sweet deal until he butts heads with the eccentric head referee who’s positive influence is offset by Davey’s trouble-making ways.

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The Basketball Diaries

This film, based on a true story, tells the harrowing fall of Jim Carroll from a basketball star deep into a world of drug addiction.

 

spacejam  Space Jam

The entire Looney Tunes gang joins basketball superstar Michael Jordan for this magically entertaining live-action/animated feature about a winners-take-all basketball game with a ruthless group of unsavory outer space creatures. Motion picture funnyman Bill Murray and Wayne Knight are also on hand to save the day in this hilarious romp through the far reaches to the galaxy.



 americanbeauty

American Beauty

Lester Burnham's wife Carolyn hates him, his daughter Jane regards him with contempt, and his boss is positioning him for the ax — the typical suburban nightmare. When you've got nothing to lose, you might as well risk everything. Provoked by forbidden passions, Lester decides to make a few changes in his life that are less mid-life crisis than adolescence reborn. The freer he gets, the happier he gets, which is even more maddening to his wife and daughter. But Lester Burnham is about to learn that the ultimate freedom comes at the ultimate price.

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Annie Hall

Chronicles the ups and downs of obsessive, neurotic, NY comedian Alvy Singer’s (Woody Allen) relationship with Midwest ditz Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) in 1970s socialite Manhattan. Allen allows us a glimpse of his personal life in this semi-autobiographical portrait of the amorous partnership between Allen and Keaton.

 

 goodhair Good Hair

An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, this film visits beauty salons, hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships and self-esteem of the black community. Haircare professionals, beauty shop patrons, as well as celebrities including Ice-T, Dr. Maya Angelou, Eve and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock.

 

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Paranormal Activity

After a young, middle class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban ‘starter’ house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that seems to be demonic. It is certainly most active in the middle of the night – especially when they sleep – where the horrific presence is captured on their video camera.

 coachcarter Coach Carter

Samuel L. Jackson plays true-life controversial high school basketball coach Ken Carter.  In 1999, Coach Carter benched his entire undefeated team because of poor academic performance.


 supersizeme Super Size Me

Director and science project Morgan Spurlock sets his sites on the golden arches to make a statement about obesity.  He eats nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days and watches as his vital signs go south.  He uses this icon as a launching pad to make the statement that our fast food society, including school lunches, the corporations that have molded this culture and the politics involved have combined to make us the fattest nation in the world.

godfather 

The Godfather

A shadow epic following the fortunes of the fictitious Corleones, a powerful Mafia family with its own separate code of honor, justice, law and loyalty that transcends all other codes. Based on a novel by Mario Puzo.

 summercatch Summer Catch

To the chagrin of her parents, rich girl Tenley Parrish (Jessica Biel) falls in love with Ryan Dunn (Freddie Prinze Jr.) - a baseball player who dreams of signing a contract with the big leagues - during her family vacation in Cape Cod.

 

 Untitled1 Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Helen McCarter seemingly had the perfect life as she and her successful husband Charles lived in luxury. That all comes crashing down on her as Charles throws her out of the house on their 18th wedding anniversary to make room for his new woman. With a moving van of possessions, Helen begins the journey to put the pieces of her life back together. With the help of her friends and family - especially her pot-smoking, gun-toting grandmother - Helen finds an inner strength that helps her turn her tragedy into a comedy.

platoon  Platoon

Director Oliver Stone examines the day-to-day existence of an infantry rifle platoon in Vietnam made up of 30 guys from all walks of life. Their loyalties are split into two factions by warring sergeants Barnes and Elias, (Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) which results in a conflict that ends in tragedy.