With a staggering 1.8 trillion dollars in student loan debt, the average American household owes $39,000, affecting minorities and only expanding the racial gap even wider. A significant percentage of these people have paid their debt by now. Still, it’s the penalties, uncontrolled interest, and the predatory behaviors of loan companies that keep piling upon them. Are the current efforts from the government enough to make a change?

Roma
Alfonso Cuarón, 2018
R; 135 Minutes

Wednesday, October 23
Happy Hour, 5 pm
Film, 7 pm

Cleo is one of two domestic workers who help Antonio and Sofía take care of their four children in 1970s Mexico City. Complications soon arise when Antonio suddenly runs away with his mistress and Cleo finds out that she's pregnant. When Sofía decides to take the kids on vacation, she invites Cleo for a much-needed getaway to clear her mind and bond with the family.

Peter Bogdanovich, 1972
G; 94 minutes

“A homage to Hollywood screwball comedy that by and large gets its pace and cartoon/slapstick timings right.” —Times Out

On a trip to San Francisco to compete for a music grant, a young researcher (Ryan O’Neal) meets a zany college dropout (Barbra Streisand). Their unpredictable and wacky relationship adds to the antics of the film when four identical plaid bags with valuable contents go missing.

Albert Brooks, 1991
PG; 111 minutes

“This is definitely Brooks's day in court, and he makes comic heaven of it.” —Desson Thomson, Washington Post

George Cukor, 1940
NR; 112 minutes

“Miss Hepburn has accomplished the thing she set out to do with both movie and stage play. She has made the showmen who labeled her box-office poison eat their words and rue the day they were ever so uncomplimentary.” —Katherine Howard, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Billy Wilder, 1954
PG; 113 minutes

“It's a Cinderella story that gets turned on its head, a satire about breaking down class and emotional barriers, and a confrontation between New World callousness and Old World humanity.” —Derek Adams, Time Out