From the Evening Star in Brunswick

I adore the Eveningstar in Brunswick... "The Princess Bride" (PG)(98 min) Free Showing for Christmas! Saturday, December 20th at 11:00 AM Directed by Rob Reiner Starring: Robin Wright, Cary Elwes and Peter Falk "'The Princess Bride' begins as a story that a grandfather is reading out of a book. But already the movie has a spin on it, because the grandfather is played by Peter Falk, and in the distinctive quality of his voice we detect a certain edge. His voice seems to contain a measure of cynicism about fairy stories, a certain awareness that there are a lot more things on heaven and Earth than have been dreamed of by the Brothers Grimm. The story he tells is about Buttercup, a beautiful princess who scornfully orders around a farm boy until the day when she realizes, thunderstruck, that she loves him. She wants to live happily ever after with him, but then evil forces intervene, and she is kidnapped and taken far away across the lost lands, while he is killed. The moment the princess is taken away by agents of the evil Prince Humperdinck, 'The Princess Bride' reveals itself as a sly parody of sword and sorcery movies, a film that somehow manages to exist on two levels at once: While younger viewers will sit spellbound at the thrilling events on the screen, adults, I think, will be laughing a lot. 'The Princess Bride' was adapted by William Goldman from his own novel, which he says was inspired by a book he read as a child, but which seems to have been cheerfully transformed by his wicked adult imagination. It is filled with good-hearted fun, with performances by actors who seem to be smacking their lips and by a certain true innocence that survives all of Reiner's satire. And, also, it does have kissing in it." - Roger Ebert.