Saturday, June 9th Encore: An Inconveniant Truth

On Saturday evening, June 9th, as part of Lunenburg's 254th birthday celebrations, The Pearl is presenting an encore screening of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, the sensational Al Gore film. The show is at 7 pm and admission is $5.


Described as an 'entertaining horror movie', An Inconveniant Truth presents the reality behind the fear of global warming in a clear and proven scientific light. Davis Guggenheim's documentary is based largley on Al Gore's multimedia presentation on global warming which he's given hundreds of times over the last few years. This is an important movie and shouldn't be missed.

A Prairie Home Companion

Radio like you've never seen it before!

Tuesday, October 24th, we present Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion. This musical comedy / drama is jam packed with star power and received grand critical acclaim.

The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor's radio show. It adds a slight story of the radio show ending as a new owner (Tommy Lee Jones) has bought the Fitzgerald theater that the show broadcasts from and is going to tear it down. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor plays the lead character, coincidentally called GK. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who tells the story. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator.

The show starts at 7pm, $5 at the door!

10.10.2002 - Tsotsi

After a long hiatus, the Pearl Movie Series is finally back on the air. We hope you'll come back into the cinematic fold of our small town series and enjoy this season's selection of wonderful, challenging and stimulating cinema.

We begin this season with the award-winning film, Tsotsi.

TSOTSI is a gritty and moving portrait of an angry young man living in a state of extreme urban deprivation. His world pumps with the raw energy of "Kwaito music" - the modern beat of the ghetto that reflects his troubled state of mind.

The film is a psychological thriller in which the protagonist is compelled to confront his own brutal nature and face the consequences of his actions. It puts a human face on both the victims and the perpetrators of violent crime and is ultimately a story of hope and a triumph of love over rage.

"Tsotsi" literally means "thug" or "gangster" in the street language of South Africa's townships and ghettos. "Kwaito" is South Africa's answer to American Hip Hop.

The show starts at 7:00pm - we hope to see you there!