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Aaron Sorkin writes and directs this companion piece to The Social Network, following Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a Facebook engineer who enlists a Wall Street Journal reporter (Jeremy Allen White) to expose the company’s most guarded secrets. Jeremy Strong co-stars as Mark Zuckerberg.

A young man (Austin Abrams) diving off the California coast in search of his father’s remains is swallowed whole by an 80-foot sperm whale, with one hour of oxygen left to find a way out. Based on Daniel Kraus’s novel, directed by Brian Duffield.

A documentary tracing the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell that quietly launched Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, and Paul Shaffer, planting the seeds of Saturday Night Live and SCTV. Executive produced by Judd Apatow.

In an overpopulated, resource-starved New York of the future, detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates a corporate murder and uncovers a truth that will change everything. Edward G. Robinson’s final film performance. Seniors attend free.

The UNITED presents the October Knit at Nite film series screening featuring the 90’s classic Clueless. Knit at Night is a monthly cozy-meets-cinema series where the lights stay a little brighter and you are invited to bring your knitting, crocheting, or fiber project of choice and settle in for a communal screening designed for makers.

After her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows, headstrong teenager Prue McKeel launches a desperate rescue mission into an enchanted forest hidden just beyond Portland, Oregon. Joined by a hapless but loyal classmate, Prue risks it all as she navigates a world of bandits, talking animals and powerful figures driven by grief and ambition.

On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.

Vincent Price stars as a disfigured sculptor who rebuilds his destroyed wax museum by much darker means in this horror classic that launched his career as a genre icon. Still genuinely creepy. Seniors attend free.

Just in time for Halloween, the UNITED presents a Big Screen Society film series screening of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic and terrifying adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining.

The UNITED presents a screening of director Abby Ginzberg’s 2025 film Labors of Love as part of the Jewish Film Series in partnership with Congregation Sharah Zedek.

Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, the Dateline NBC journalist whose To Catch a Predator segment changed television forever. From documentarian Lance Oppenheim in his narrative feature debut, produced by A24 and Ari Aster.

The Watch Hill Conservancy presents a special screening of the short documentary film Bat Boy and a post-screening talk with Dr. Peter V. August about bats in Rhode Island.

Bruce Lee stars as a martial arts expert recruited by a British intelligence agency to infiltrate a criminal syndicate operating out of a heavily fortified island fortress. The film that introduced Lee to Western audiences and remains the gold standard of the martial arts genre. Seniors attend free.

Bill Hader voices the Cat in this animated feature debut, as the iconic Dr. Seuss character takes on his toughest assignment yet: cheering up two siblings struggling to adjust to a new town.

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, two CIA agents (John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell) are sent from Santiago to Easter Island on a trust-testing mission. The new film from Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), with Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, and Tom Waits

John Wayne plays a small-town sheriff who must hold a dangerous prisoner until the U.S. Marshal arrives, with only a recovering alcoholic (Dean Martin), an old deputy (Walter Brennan), and a young gunfighter (Ricky Nelson) to help him. Howard Hawks at his most relaxed and confident. Seniors attend free.

Michael Caine plays a London gangster who travels to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s suspicious death and finds something far uglier than he expected. One of the great British crime films, lean and unsparing from start to finish. Seniors attend free.

Join us for the world premiere screening of the new film Rollie McKenna: Life and Photography presented by Historic Stonington and the UNITED with support from Connecticut Humanities and the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation.

The UNITED presents a Big Screen Society film series screening of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, perhaps the best example of a “have to see it on the biggest screen possible” epic there is.

Walt Disney Animation’s 65th feature follows Billie (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld), an unconventional teenager who discovers hidden magical abilities and is pulled into Hexe, a vast witch realm. Forced to investigate family secrets alongside her cautious mother Alice (Rashida Jones), the two uncover mysteries that could upend the world of witches forever. Jodie Foster and Walton Goggins co-star.

The true story of a broke, unknown Sylvester Stallone who wrote Rocky and refused to sell it unless he got to play the lead. Directed by Peter Farrelly (Green Book), starring Anthony Ippolito as a young Stallone.

Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play a couple who buy what seems like a dream house at a dream price, only to discover why it was so cheap. A slapstick comedy built around one escalating disaster after another, with Hanks at his most physically committed. Seniors attend free.

Thirty-four days before Elizabeth Holmes began serving her prison sentence for defrauding investors, the disgraced Theranos founder invited a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What follows becomes something far stranger and harder to categorize. Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. From A24.

Peter Sellers plays Chance, a simple-minded gardener who has never left his employer’s estate and knows the world only through television. When he is thrust into Washington society after his employer’s death, his literal-minded observations are mistaken for profound wisdom. One of the great comic performances in American film. Seniors attend free.

Bike Stonington, in partnership with the UNITED, Mystic Cycle Center, and Brumble Bikes present a screening of Jill Yesko’s Uphill Climb. This documentary film tells the inspiring story of the first women to compete in the Tour de France.

Join us in week one for The Fellowship of the Ring during the Fellowship Film Series, a communal rewatch of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy seen as intended on the big-screen in Dolby 7.1 surround sound.

In 1949, Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from American-occupied Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Shot in black and white by director Pawel Pawlikowski, winner of Best Director at Cannes.

Judy Garland stars as one of four sisters in a prosperous St. Louis family facing an uncertain future as the 1904 World’s Fair comes to town. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, it features some of the most beloved songs in the American musical canon, including “The Trolley Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Seniors attend free.

Join us in week two for The Two Towers during the Fellowship Film Series, a communal rewatch of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy seen as intended on the big-screen in Dolby 7.1 surround sound.

Barbara Stanwyck plays a magazine columnist who has built her career writing about her idyllic life on a Connecticut farm, her loving husband, and her cooking. The only problem: none of it is true. A fast-talking holiday comedy that holds up as well as anything from the era. Seniors attend free.

Join us in week three for The Return of the King during the Fellowship Film Series, a communal rewatch of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy seen as intended on the big-screen in Dolby 7.1 surround sound.

Heroes from three distinct Marvel universes collide and face an existential threat unlike anything before, led by Robert Downey Jr. as a new villain: Doctor Doom. Directed by the Russo brothers.

Set 17 years after Paul Atreides seized the throne, Denis Villeneuve’s epic conclusion finds a ruthless Emperor facing conspiracy, betrayal, and a galaxy-wide holy war. Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, and Robert Pattinson star.

Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is determined to give his family the perfect old-fashioned Christmas, and everything that can go wrong does. The third entry in the Vacation series and the one that stuck, now a holiday perennial for a reason. Seniors attend free.

The UNITED presents a screening of director Robert Mandel’s School Ties (1992) as part of the Jewish Film Series in partnership with Congregation Sharah Zedek.

The game breaks free of its console and invades the real world. Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan return for the fifth and final installment of the franchise. Christmas Day.