Friday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m. - Main Street (2010) Starring Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, and Patricia Clarkson; Rated PG; 92 minutes.

Main Street is a contemporary drama about several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of today's challenging times, each of the colorful citizens of this close-knit North Carolina community -- from its Mayor to a local police officer to a once-wealthy tobacco heiress -- will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.

For more information, please watch the film's trailer.

Friday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m. - The Help (2011) Starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, and Octavia Spencer; Rated PG-13; 146 minutes.

Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a small Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say.

 For more information, please watch the film's trailer.

There will be no Friday Night Film on Friday, December 16.

Friday, December 23 at 7:30 p.m. - Submarine (2011) Starring Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, and Paddy Considine; Rated R; 97 minutes.

Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate has two big ambitions: to save his parents' marriage via carefully plotted intervention and to lose his virginity before his next birthday. Worried that his mom is having an affair with New Age weirdo Graham, Oliver monitors his parents' bedroom. Meanwhile, Oliver attempts to woo his classmate, Jordana, a self-professed pyromaniac who supervises his journal writing - especially the bits about her. When necessary, she orders him to cross things out.

For more information, please watch the film's trailer.

Friday, December 30 at 7:30 p.m. - The Tree (2010) Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Morgana Davies; Not Rated; 100 minutes.

Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn -- along with her four young children -- struggles to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then the tree’s enormous roots slowly begin to encroach on the abode and threaten their fragile existence.

For more information, please watch the film's trailer.

All films are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Additional parking for evening and weekend Library programs on Thorndal Circle (behind Nielsen's).