Save Sunday, March 15, for the showing of the first in the St. Thomas Aquinas Parish Spring Meaningful Movies series. 

 

“The Visitor” will be shown at 5:00 p.m. in the Thomas House Basement Hall, 745 Waverley St., Palo Alto,  followed by a brief discussion and sharing of snacks. “The Visitor” is a 2007 American drama film. The screenplay focuses on a lonely college professor in late middle age (Richard Jenkins) whose life changes when he finds a young couple living in his long-unused New York City apartment.  He is forced to face issues relating to identity, immigration, and cross-cultural communication in post-9/11 New York City.  The film is enlivened by music and humor and kindness. For “The Visitor”, director Thomas McCarthy won the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, while Richard Jenkins was nominated for Best Actor in the 2008 Academy Awards.

Subsequent films in the series, also at 5 pm in the Thomas House Hall, are:
Sunday, April 19:  "Gran Torino"
Sunday, May 24:  "Sin Nombre”..