Old Bridge Public Library Free Movie Friday - Admission

Free Friday Movie, August 9th at 1:30 p.m. Admission starring Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Lily Tomlin. A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption. Rated PG-13, 107 minutes, 2013. For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

Old Bridge Library - Free Movie Friday: Lincoln

Friday, May 3 at 1:30 p.m.

Lincoln Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, Daniel Day-Lewis. As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. This film chronicles the President's time in office between 1861 and 1865 as he dealt with personal demons and politics during the Civil War. Rated PG-13, 150 minutes, 2012. For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

Old Bridge Library - Free Movie Friday: Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away

Free Movie Friday, April 26th @ 1:30 PM Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away Starring Erica Linz and Dallas Barnett. Director Andrew Adamson team with producer James Cameron to bring the magic of Cirque du Soleil to the big screen in this original story. Rated PG, 91 minutes, 2012. For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

Old Bridge Library - Free Movie Friday: The Hobbit

April 19 at 1:30 p.m. Free Friday Film: The Hobbit starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellan. A younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out on an "unexpected journey" to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim their stolen mountain home from a dragon named Smaug. Rated PG-13, 169 minutes, 2012 For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

Old Bridge Public Library - Friday Film Series

Apr. 12 at 1:30 p.m. Arbitrage Rated R, 107 minutes. A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help. For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

Old Bridge Library - Free Movie Friday

Free Movie Friday, March 29th @ 1:30 PM "Up" (Rated PG, 96 minutes, 2009) In his 78th year, Carl Fredricksen launches his house into the sky via thousands of balloons. Right after lift off he discovers he has a stowaway in the form of an 8-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. This hilarious journey takes you into a lost world with the least likely duo on Earth. For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

Old Bridge Library - Free Movie Friday: Argo

On Friday, March 1, the Library will be presenting a free showing of the Academy Award winning movie Argo at 1:30 p.m. A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. Rated R, 120 min. For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

Old Bridge Public Library - Free Movie Friday

Free Movie Friday on Friday, February 1 at 1:30 p.m. This week's movie will be Tuck Everlasting, starring: Jonathan Jackson, Sissy Spacek and William Hurt. Winnie Foster is a free-spirited girl living in the 1800’s who discovers a strange family. The Tucks have a secret spring that gives the person who drinks from it eternal life. When she falls in love with the son, Winnie must decide whether to go back to life as she knows it or stay with the family. Rated PG, 88 minutes, 2002. For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

Old Bridge Library - Free Movie Fridays in August!

Friday, August 3rd@ 1:30PM Joyful Noise Starring: Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton. This film is the story of a small town choir out to win a national competition despite overwhelming odds. A story of faith and determination by the choir leaders and the young talent who give their all to win God's praise and beat the competition for the grand prize. Rated PG-13, 118 minutes, 2012.

Friday, August 10th @ 1:30PM Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Starring: Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large, Professor Moriarty, and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. Rated PG-13, 129 minutes.

Friday, August 17th @ 1:30PM Guarding Tess Starring: Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage. Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine) is a cantankerous, much loved ex-First Lady whose husband died in office nearly a decade ago. Now far removed from Washington, she directs her extraordinary intelligence to a battle of wills with Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage), a Secret Service agent with a strong code of honor whose sights are set higher than guarding a difficult woman in a sleepy outpost. The result is a funny and moving story of an unlikely friendship put to the ultimate test. Rated PG-13, 95 minutes, 1994.

Friday, August 24th @ 1:30PM The Way We Were Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford   Katie (Barbra Streisand) and Hubbell (Robert Redford) are immediately, albeit reluctantly, attracted to each other, but it takes years before they eventually marry. They move to Hollywood where their differences become too great to keep them together in this romantic drama. Rated PG, 118 minutes, 1973.


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Old Bridge Library: Free Movie Friday: The Color Purple

Friday, July 13 at 1:30 p.m. Starring: Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover. Author Alice Walker’s intimate story of suffering, endurance, and triumph is set in early 20th century rural South. Celie Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg) is a browbeaten, much abused, nearly illiterate black farm girl who, over the course of 40 years grows into a woman of self-assurance and wit, a  woman with her own dreams and identity. Rated PG, 155 minutes, 1985.

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The Old Bridge Public Library offers a regular calendar of programming for senior citizens. Each Friday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. the Library offers a Senior Friday program such as a movie, lecture or an arts program. These programs are all free and open to the public and no registration is required. The Library also offers three reading groups for adults and seniors that engage in regular monthly book discussions. Other Library groups of interest include the Library’s Craft Club and the Ladies Night Out Book Discussion group. The Library also has a large selection of large print and audio-books that are available for borrowing, and an optical reader in the Senior Spaces section of the Library to enlarge text of books for easier viewing and reading. For more information on Senior events and programs at the Library, please contact Senior Spaces Librarian Timothy Horras at (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033 or e-mail him.

June 4 @ 1:30 p.m. This week's Senior Friday movie will be Up in the Air starring George Clooney.

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On Friday, December 18th @ 1:30PM the Central Library will present a free screening of Julie & Julia. Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams & Stanley Tucci. A woman verging on thirty and frustrated in a temp secretary job takes on a yearlong culinary quest: cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. This film follows both women who, while separated by time and space, discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. 123 minutes. Rated PG-13.

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Upcoming Senior Friday Programs, on consecutive Fridays at 1:30 p.m.

November 14: November is National Hospice Month — Hospice care is not just end of life care. Join the director of Compassionate Care Hospice in finding out more about hospice.

November 21: The Great Jazz Saxophonists — Listen to classic recordings and view youtube and DVD clips of some of the finest musicians in American history including Stan Getz, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges.

November 28: Arthritis — Dr. Keith Schnappauf, chiropractor, will talk about chiropractic approaches to arthritis treatment.

For more information, please call (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033.

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Ellen leads a Senior Friday program on the Future of New Jersey during the End of the Summer Roundup: What do you love about New Jersey? What do you think about the future of the Garden State?

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The Library hosted a very exciting and fast paced program about bonsai trees.

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Talk and Discussion: History of Baseball in NJ on May 30 at 1:30 p.m.

Bob Golon, author of No Minor Accomplishment: The Revival of New Jersey Professional Baseball is a Baseball Historian as well as the Assistant Director of the Plainfield Public Library. Come join him for a lively talk about the history of baseball in NJ. No registration required -- light refreshments will be served.

These programs are made possible under contract with the INFOLINK Regional Library Cooperative and a grant from the NJState Library Please visit seniorspaces.blogspot.com, and infolink.org/seniorspaces for the latest information for Seniors!

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Jean Klerman made a presentation for Senior Friday on the history of Jews in Central New Jersey.

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Allan and Ellen lead their group through another fun filled Senior Friday program


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On January 11 at 1:30 p.m. there will be a Senior Friday Talk and Discussion entitled Explore Natural New Jersey. Jim Peck, head of Outreach and Education for the American Littoral Society's Mid-Atlantic Chapter, will give a virtual tour of New Jersey natural places that are easily accessible for anyone. He will suggest sight-seeing adventures for eveyone from finding orchids at the Webb's Mill Bog to picking up Cape May diamonds at Sunset Beach. No registration required -- light refreshments will be served.

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