Join us this coming Sunday July 23, 2023, at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for our Movie Watcher’s Group, which will be facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert.
Here is a playsheet designed to facilitate contemplative movie watching: Somewhere in Queens Playsheet.
The movie for the month of July will be Somewhere in Queens. The main characters, Leo (Ray Romano) and Angela (Laurie Metcalf) Russo live a simple, blue-collar life in Queens, surrounded by the big personalities of their overbearing Italian-American family. When their lanky, soft-spoken son ‘Sticks’ finds success on his high-school basketball team and a chance at a life beyond what tradition expects because of a basketball scholarship, Leo risks everything when the scholarship becomes jeopardized, including ties with his overbearing Italian-American family, to give his son a shot at a different life.
Somewhere in Queens was also written and directed by Ray Romano.
This movie was chosen because it explores family relationships, the desire to manipulate life in order to achieve desired outcomes, and the often missed invitation to confront fear head-on and, thus, to heal and grow from life itself.
We hope you join us for movie group and discover for yourself how the movie speaks to you on your spiritual journey.
You can rent this movie on Vudu and Amazon Prime.
