Summer 1995 Film Schedule
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| Jurassic Park | |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | Molecular Evoution and Genetics |
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| Multimillionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has a plan for a new theme park: a secluded island where visitors can observe dinosaurs, cloned using advanced DNA technology. But when an employee tampers with the security system, the dinosaurs escape, forcing the visitors to fight for their survival. Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern star, as their computer-generated co-stars chew the scenery in this action-packed thriller. |
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| Starring: | Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, Joseph Mazzello |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi/Thriller |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Run Time: | 2 hours, 7 minutes |
| Rating: | Rated PG-13 for intense science fiction terror |
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| Philadelphia | |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | HIV/AIDS, Bioethics |
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| When attorney Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) reveals his HIV-positive status -- and his homosexuality -- to his co-workers, he soon finds himself unemployed. Seeking to sue for wrongful termination, Hanks works with the only lawyer who'll take the case: ambulance-chasing, homophobic Joe Miller (Denzel Washington). Hanks received an Oscar for his work in this Jonathan Demme-directed film -- the first major-studio picture to tackle the topic of AIDS. |
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| Starring: | Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Daniel Chapman |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Run Time: | 2 hours, 5 minutes |
| Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some graphic language and thematic material |
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| Madame Curie | |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | Radioisotopes, Radiation, Nobel Prize |
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| Raising the biopic to new heights, director Mervyn LeRoy's Oscar-nominated drama stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as the titular scientist and her French physicist husband. After young Polish student Marie and Dr. Pierre Curie fall in love and marry, the pair sets to work isolating a new element, radium. After years of painstaking research, their efforts pay off, but just as success comes calling, so does tragedy. |
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| Starring: | Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Basserman |
| Genre: | BiographyDrama/Classics |
| Year: | 1943 |
| Run Time: | 2 hours, 4 minutes |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
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| My Left Foot | |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Medical Themes: | Cerebral Palsy |
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Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for his portrayal of Irish writer Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. Misdiagnosed as mentally disabled for the first 10 years of his life, Brown learned to write using his left foot, the only body part he could control. The story unfolds in flashbacks, with Hugh O'Conor as the young Christy equaling Day-Lewis's performance as the adult.
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| Starring: | Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan |
| Genre: | Biography/Drama |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Run Time: | 1 hour, 43 minutes |
| Rating: | Rated R |
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| Rainman | |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | Autism |
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| Fast-talking yuppie Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns the lesson of a lifetime when he meets a brother he never knew he had. Raymond Babbitt (Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman) is an autistic savant who has spent most of his life in an institution. But when their father leaves his fortune to Raymond, Charlie takes his unusual older brother on a cross-country odyssey neither will forget. Other Oscars include Best Picture. |
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| Starring: | Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Run Time: | 2 hours, 23 minutes |
| Rating: | Rated R |
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| Outbreak | |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Building 45, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | Virology, Public Health Epidemic |
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| As take-charge Army virologist Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) strives to thwart a global biological meltdown in the form of a killer virus that has infested a California community, he must also battle those who say the only way to stop the disease is to firebomb the town. Silver-screen luminaries Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland and Kevin Spacey join Hoffman in this edge-of-your-seat, doomsday thriller. |
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| Starring: | Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Patrick Dempsey |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Run Time: | 1 hour, 27 minutes |
| Rating: | Rated R |
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