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The theme of the OID Summer Lunch Movie Series covers a variety of diversity issues including race, gender, & class. Each movie is typically presented in two parts; lunch time12-1pm on Tuesdays & Thursdays in the Platt Conference Rooms.

Week 1: Crash	Part 1 - Tuesday 6/3 Part 2 - Thursday 6/5
	"This compelling urban thriller tracks the volatile intersection of a multiethnic cast of characters struggling to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. In the gray area between black and white victim and aggressor during the next 36 hours the will all collide.”
Week 2: Something New	Part 1 - Tuesday 6/10 Part 2 - Thursday 6/12
	“The tricky topic of interracial romance gets a sexy, charming, and unexpectedly realistic treatment in Something New.”
Week 3:	Tuesday, 6/17 Thursday, 6/19 - NO movie
A compilation of several short clips that take a look at Body Image found on Youtube.com	Killing Us Softly 3 A summary of how women are portrayed in advertising Production of the Media Education Foundation A Girl Like Me Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves. Production of the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking Sexism, Strength and Dominance A project on the portrayal of masculinity offered in Disney films An Inequality Project by Sanjay Newton
Week 4: Quincianera	Part 1 - Tuesday 6/24 Part 2 - Thursday 6/26
	“Winner of both the Dramatic Audience and Jury Awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and deservedly so this crowd-pleaser deftly balances gay and straight storylines while presenting an engaging tale about sexuality culture clashes and gentrification.”
Week 5: Raise the Red Lantern	Part 1 - Tuesday 7/1 Part 2 - Thursday 7/3
	“Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou) directed this fascinating visually formal 1991 film about an educated woman (Gong Li) who is sent off to become the newest wife of a feudal nobleman in 1920s China. Nearly isolated in his spooky palatial home she develops relationships with several of the other wives and slowly becomes aware of a hideous legacy of punishment toward more willful women.”

Week 6: Watermelon Man	Part 1 - Tuesday 7/8 Part 2 - Thursday 7/10
	“Jeff Gerber seems to have it all: a successful career a nice suburban home a progressive-thinking wife and two cute children. But he's also a loud-mouthed racist who wakes up one morning to discover he's turned into a black man.”
Week 7: Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance after the Holocaust	Part 1 - Tuesday 7/15 Part 2 - Thursday 7/17
	“This award-winning documentary tells the dramatic and emotional story of a Jewish father who journeys with his two ultra-orthodox adult sons back to Poland to try to find the Christian farmers who hid their family from the Nazis. To his sons, like many offspring of Polish Holocaust survivors, this is a country whose people are incurably anti-Semitic and beyond redemption. His hope is to instill in his insulated and narrow-minded sons the power of interfaith tolerance and trust.”
Week 8: The Tuskegee Airmen	Part 1 - Tuesday 7/22 Part 2 - Thursday 7/24
	"Featuring an all-star cast headed by Laurence Fishburne, fireballs of high speed air action explode off the screen in this exciting story of the "Fighting 99th," the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. Based on the true story.


Week 9: Smoke Signals	Part 1 - Tuesday 7/29 Part 2 - Thursday 7/31
	"Though Victor and Thomas have lived their entire young lives in the same tiny town, they couldn't have less in common! But when Victor is urgently called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. There's just one thing Victor has to do: take Thomas along for the ride! You're in for a rare and entertaining comic treat as this most unlikely pair leave home on what becomes an unexpectedly unforgettable adventure of friendship and discovery!"
Week 10: A Girl Like Me	Part 1 - Tuesday 8/5 Part 2 - Thursday 8/7
	"Based on a true story, A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story follows Sylvia Guerrero (Mercedes Ruehl), a single mother whose teenage son (JD Pardo), discloses he is transgender to his close-knit Latino family and boldly decides to adopt the name Gwen to live life as a girl."
Week 11: Days of Waiting	Tuesday 8/12 -- NO MOVIE Thursday 8/14
	"Days of Waiting is a poignant documentary about an extraordinary woman, artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. When internment came, she refused to be separated from her Japanese American husband and lived with him for four years behind barbed wire in the desolate Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming."
Week 12: The Great Debaters (FINAL MOVIE)	Part 1 - Tuesday 8/19 Part 2 - Thursday 8/21
	"Inspired by a true story, Washington shines as a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African American college students into an historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite."