Music Box Theatre

An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, THE HORSE BOY follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing. When two-year-old Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson, a writer and former ho...rse trainer, and his wife Kristin Neff, a psychology professor, sought the best possible medical care for their son—but traditional therapies had little effect. Then they discovered that Rowan has a profound affinity for animals—particularly horses—and the family set off on a quest for a possible cure….


Official Selection 2009 Sundance Film Festival

* "A lyrical, heartbreaking, and deeply stirring meditation on the mystery of autism." — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

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The Yes Men are anti-corporate pranksters who create phony Web sites to get themselves invited to high-level corporate conferences and media events – where they give hilarious, Swiftian analyses that unmask global injustice and satirize human rights abuses. Announcing, as spokespeople for Dow Chemical, that they will a...t last take full financial responsibility for the victims of Bhopal, they create a media sensation that embarrasses the real powers that be. The Yes Men don’t exactly speak truth to power. But their hearts are in the right place — right next to their funny bones.Read More

One of most celebrated filmmakers of our time, Lars Von Trier is back with the beautiful, terrifying, and altogether engrossing ANTICHRIST. The talk of 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where star Charlotte Gainsbourg took home the award for Best Actress, the full, unedited version of this eagerly-awaited film promises to cap...tivate audiences this fall. A grieving couple (two-time Oscar®-Nominee Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) retreat to ’Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse…Read More

After the second impact, all that remains of Japan is Tokyo-3, a city that’s being attacked by giant creatures that seek to eradicate the human kind, called Angels. After not seeing his father for more than eight years, Shinji Ikari receives a phone call, in which he is told to urgently come to the NERV Headquarters, a...n organization that deals with the destruction of the Angels through the use of giant mechs called Evas.Shinji’s objective is to pilot the Eva Unit 01,while teaming up with the Eva Unit 00 pilot, Ayanami Rei.
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Author Evan I. Schwartz will discuss his book FINDING OZ: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story and will introduce the Judy Garland classic by pointing out hidden clues to what the characters, symbols and events originally meant to the man who originated Oz while living in Chicago.

Mr. Schwartz will sign... copies of his book in the lobby following the film screening.

So come out, come out wherever you are and enjoy an evening of family fun. Halloween is just around the corner so why not come in costume?

This screening is presented in conjunction with the Chicago History Museum’s “Oz-tober,” a weekend of events that celebrates the story, author L. Frank Baum, and the ways it has touched our lives. More information about Oz-tober, click here

Tickets:
$9.25 General Admission
$8.00 Chicago History Museum members (Members must show their membership card to receive a discount)
$5.00 children under 12.
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