Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
This film is a political drama about a fierce U.S. Senate battle over a controversial Secretary of State nominee, Robert Leffingwell. The confirmation hearings expose lies, political blackmail and hidden […]
Bleak House follows the intertwining lives of orphans Esther Summerson, Richard Carstone, and Ada Clare, who are trapped in the endless Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit. While the case drags on, Esther uncovers her identity as […]
In Five Survive by Holly Jackson, six teenagers embark on a spring break RV trip. A sniper shoots out their tires, trapping them in an isolated location. The sniper gives them eight hours […]
World War II veteran Nico Garcos (Richard Conte) returns home to find that his father has been maimed, and his trucking business hijacked. The man responsible is local mobster Mike […]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is an eco-thriller set in a remote Polish village. The elderly, eccentric protagonist, Janina, believes that persecuted local animals are enacting supernatural, murderous […]
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is a cozy mystery about 60-year-old Vera Wong, a bored, lonely woman looking for a new lease on life—which comes in the form of a […]
Lakewood Public Cinema Special Programming
This film is based on the 1952 novella, Old Man and the Sea, written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the […]
On December 5th, 1928, a secretive early meeting of the American Mafi a was to take place at Cleveland’s Hotel Statler. The Cleveland Police had other ideas and raided the […]
When European settlers first arrived in Ohio, they found a land that was 95% forested. Gardeners of today know, however, that many of our native flowers and grasses prefer to […]
From fending off wolves to concocting a supper of rattlesnakes and corn pone, pioneer women did whatever was necessary for the survival of their families. Meet our foremothers who created a refined […]
Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home to LA after two years of drifting and trying to forget his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne De Carlo). He can’t. She is now married to […]
Regina Brett, a Pulitzer Prize finalist (2008 and 2009) and five-time Ohio Associated Press award winner, is an acclaimed journalist and author who has inspired readers with her lucid, helpful […]