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Always Young
"I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When she first fell in love the differences in their ages worried her.
Gus loved her now, but what if it was only affection, a big brother to a little sister, not the kind of love between a man and a woman? What if she grew up and he no longer cared?
He was on his own, a grown man making a living, and she was still a little girl living at home and barely out of pinafores.
She'd never kissed anyone before he kissed her, a quick brush on the cheek, but a kiss none the less. For all his talk no doubt he'd kissed a hundred girls and broken hearts all over.
She worried that when she was grown he would be too old for her, that the gap would be more pronounced as if it could widen over time, pulling them apart.
She counted years, months, and days. When he was this she would be that.
It wasn't as large a gap as some very happy marriages, she reminded herself..why, a cousin on her father's side had married a man fifteen years her elder...but she couldn't help counting the years between them.
Perhaps he would grow tired of her, think her a child, and find a grown woman. Perhaps she'd be repulsed if his hair turned gray before her's.
She was still a child in so many ways, still innocent, a girl who'd never been more than a hundred miles in any direction from home while he had seen the world.
The day he left she wanted to scream, to throw a tantrum, and beg him to stay. She wanted them to be schoolchildren again, when he'd carry her books, or play his fiddle as the children danced in the schoolyard. There was so little gap in their ages then.
She even wished once, a quiet, secret wish, that she could be the elder, could be fully grown and not a child. It would be easier if they were the same age, or if she was older.
It was the week after the news came that he'd been lost at sea and she was sitting on the cliffs overlooking the deceptively still water, the water that had dragged him down and stolen his breath, the water that had taken him from her in a single moment, when it came to her.
She'd run through the emotions - disbelief, anger, blinding sorrow - and now was left empty and hollow. There were no tears to shed, no more tormenting nightmares of reaching to him as he slipped beneath the waves.
It was only in that moment that it occurred to her that Gus would forever be as she last saw him...young, strong, never aging, never growing old. She would go on and he would remain.
It was cruel somehow that she would get older and older as the years passed, while he would never age a single day.
And eventually, she would be older than him.

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Plays first. show starts at 8:45pm
Rated: P
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Plays second.
Rated: 14A
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Rated: 14A
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Plays first.
Rated: 14A
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Plays second.
Rated: 14A
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Plays first. show starts at 8:55pm
Rated: 14A
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Plays second.
Rated: 14A
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Rated: 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language)
Runs: 107 minutes
Director: Jennifer Westfeldt
Country: US
Released: 2011
Starring: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, John Hamm
“Friends With Kids is a delightful romantic comedy crafted by someone who understands the recipe and yet still can make it her own. It’s funny without being ridiculous, sweet without turning sentimental, even though it involves parenthood. Its raunchy sense of humor helps on that score... The film follows what happens when two platonic Manhattan friends, Julie and Jason (the terrific Adam Scott from Parks and Recreation), witness their married pals melting down once they have children. One couple bicker amid a household of chaos. Another couple, who once couldn’t keep their hands off each other, don’t even want to be in the same room... So Julie and Jason make a plan: They’ll have and raise a kid together, with no troublesome romantic issues to get in the way of their friendship... What could possibly go wrong?... A baby is conceived, and everything’s great. Then womanizing Jason finally meets a dancer he’s serious about and Julie starts dating a good-guy contractor, the ‘Holy Grail’ of the elementary school divorced parent set - and suddenly she’s re-evaluating the situation, while he raves about its perfection. What elevates Friends With Kids is how it arrives at its foregone conclusion while still remaining fresh and consistently amusing... Friends With Kids may not be wholly traditional... but in the end it salutes the importance of family and friendship, values that never lose their appeal. Especially when you’re laughing.” - Connie Ogle, The Miami Herald
Rated: 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language, Substance Abuse)
Runs: 102 minutes
Director: Paul Weitz
Country: US
Released: 2012
Starring: Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Olivia Thirlby
“A young writer, coping with addiction, finally meets the drunk, delusional father he never knew at the homeless shelter where the writer works. That’s the improbable truth at the core of Being Flynn, the uneven but undeniably powerful film from writer and director Paul Weitz. Based on Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Being Flynn is a film that aches with sadness. Paul Dano excels as Nick, the budding writer, poet and playwright who drifts through his twenties until he takes a job at the New York homeless shelter that employs his girlfriend, Denise. Seeing his father, Jonathan, lining up for the shelter is a jolt. Jonathan is a writer too, claiming to be on par with J.D. Salinger and Mark Twain. He talks obsessively of his magnum opus, Memoirs of a Moron, and unearths long-buried memories of Nick’s childhood and his troubled mother, Jody (the ever-superb Julianne Moore). The film is a duel between father and son, with Nick providing narration for each in the hope of understanding his old man. From L.I.E. to Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood, Dano has shown himself to be an actor of subtle brilliance. His quiet intensity is a wrenching contrast to De Niro’s unhinged flamboyance.... Here, you can feel De Niro’s full engagement in a character that echoes his roles in Taxi Driver and Awakenings. It’s a great wreck of a performance that feels bruisingly true.”- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rated: 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language, Substance Abuse)
Runs: 102 minutes
Director: Paul Weitz
Country: US
Released: 2012
Starring: Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Olivia Thirlby
“A young writer, coping with addiction, finally meets the drunk, delusional father he never knew at the homeless shelter where the writer works. That’s the improbable truth at the core of Being Flynn, the uneven but undeniably powerful film from writer and director Paul Weitz. Based on Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Being Flynn is a film that aches with sadness. Paul Dano excels as Nick, the budding writer, poet and playwright who drifts through his twenties until he takes a job at the New York homeless shelter that employs his girlfriend, Denise. Seeing his father, Jonathan, lining up for the shelter is a jolt. Jonathan is a writer too, claiming to be on par with J.D. Salinger and Mark Twain. He talks obsessively of his magnum opus, Memoirs of a Moron, and unearths long-buried memories of Nick’s childhood and his troubled mother, Jody (the ever-superb Julianne Moore). The film is a duel between father and son, with Nick providing narration for each in the hope of understanding his old man. From L.I.E. to Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood, Dano has shown himself to be an actor of subtle brilliance. His quiet intensity is a wrenching contrast to De Niro’s unhinged flamboyance.... Here, you can feel De Niro’s full engagement in a character that echoes his roles in Taxi Driver and Awakenings. It’s a great wreck of a performance that feels bruisingly true.”- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rated: 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language)
Runs: 107 minutes
Director: Jennifer Westfeldt
Country: US
Released: 2011
Starring: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, John Hamm
“Friends With Kids is a delightful romantic comedy crafted by someone who understands the recipe and yet still can make it her own. It’s funny without being ridiculous, sweet without turning sentimental, even though it involves parenthood. Its raunchy sense of humor helps on that score... The film follows what happens when two platonic Manhattan friends, Julie and Jason (the terrific Adam Scott from Parks and Recreation), witness their married pals melting down once they have children. One couple bicker amid a household of chaos. Another couple, who once couldn’t keep their hands off each other, don’t even want to be in the same room... So Julie and Jason make a plan: They’ll have and raise a kid together, with no troublesome romantic issues to get in the way of their friendship... What could possibly go wrong?... A baby is conceived, and everything’s great. Then womanizing Jason finally meets a dancer he’s serious about and Julie starts dating a good-guy contractor, the ‘Holy Grail’ of the elementary school divorced parent set - and suddenly she’s re-evaluating the situation, while he raves about its perfection. What elevates Friends With Kids is how it arrives at its foregone conclusion while still remaining fresh and consistently amusing... Friends With Kids may not be wholly traditional... but in the end it salutes the importance of family and friendship, values that never lose their appeal. Especially when you’re laughing.” - Connie Ogle, The Miami Herald
Rated: 14 Accompaniment (Sexual Content, Coarse Language)
Runs: 107 minutes
Director: Jennifer Westfeldt
Country: US
Released: 2011
Starring: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, John Hamm
“Friends With Kids is a delightful romantic comedy crafted by someone who understands the recipe and yet still can make it her own. It’s funny without being ridiculous, sweet without turning sentimental, even though it involves parenthood. Its raunchy sense of humor helps on that score... The film follows what happens when two platonic Manhattan friends, Julie and Jason (the terrific Adam Scott from Parks and Recreation), witness their married pals melting down once they have children. One couple bicker amid a household of chaos. Another couple, who once couldn’t keep their hands off each other, don’t even want to be in the same room... So Julie and Jason make a plan: They’ll have and raise a kid together, with no troublesome romantic issues to get in the way of their friendship... What could possibly go wrong?... A baby is conceived, and everything’s great. Then womanizing Jason finally meets a dancer he’s serious about and Julie starts dating a good-guy contractor, the ‘Holy Grail’ of the elementary school divorced parent set - and suddenly she’s re-evaluating the situation, while he raves about its perfection. What elevates Friends With Kids is how it arrives at its foregone conclusion while still remaining fresh and consistently amusing... Friends With Kids may not be wholly traditional... but in the end it salutes the importance of family and friendship, values that never lose their appeal. Especially when you’re laughing.” - Connie Ogle, The Miami Herald
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