Evening Film: Pride

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Crandall Public Library
Christine L. McDonald Community Room

Event Details

(UK, 2014, 120 min., color, DVD, R) Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all.–CBS “This portrayal of the unlikely 1980s alliance between London gay-rights activists and striking Welsh miners is, quite simply, one of the best movies of the year so far.” Michael Ordoña, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/26/2014
Event Type(s): Film Program
Age Group(s): Adults