Wednesday Movie Nights-September Movies: School Spirit

Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. in the Marc Jacobs Reading Room

September 10: Good Will Hunting (1997 2h 6m)1963, 1h 35m) Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but works as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, Professor Gerald Lambeau who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.

September 17: Dear White People (2014 1h 48m)-A campus culture war between blacks and whites at a predominantly white school comes to a head when the staff of a humor magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.

August 27: Mona Lisa Smile (2003, 1h 57m) Katherine Watson teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College. She encourages her conservative students to question and disregard the outdated societal mores for women.