Tuesday, January 11th
6:30 PM
Black Rock Branch
Join us for the next in our series of monthly screening of some of the most highly regarded movies of all time. Don't miss this month's winner of 10 Academy Awards.
"Unlike other musicals ‘West Side Story' grows younger!"
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Writers: Ernest Lehman (screenplay), Arthur Laurents (book)
Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris and Richard Beymer
(1961) 152 min.
West Side Story is the award winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliette. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Skarks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending.
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