In order to help keep our community healthy, we won’t be showing movies at the Grange this winter. Instead, the Home Together Winter Film Series has picked five movies you can watch anytime on your own at home and then join a REEL TALK via Zoom. You can listen to a provocative discussion about the film by a special guest and submit your own questions. We can be Home Together with great movies and lively speakers until we can be together in person in front of the big screen at the Grange again.

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MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM streams on Netflix.

This is the powerful, riveting story of the real-life, legendary Ma Rainey. Academy Award-winner Viola Davis is unforgettable as the larger than life “Mother of the Blues.” In his final role, Chad Boseman is electrifying as Levee, the hot-headed trumpeter who dares to lock horns with Ma in a shabby Chicago recording studio where they're forced to make music the way the white bosses want it. The year is 1927 but the bristling racial tensions feel as timely as ever. “Mesmerizing” – Washington Post.

REEL TALK speaker: Kenney Green, producing artistic director at The Depot Theatre in Westport. Green has extensive experience as a choreographer, musical director, and director. He is also a faculty member in Musical Theatre Performance at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City.