Introducing HBPL's first-ever Movie Club! Please vote on our upcoming selection of movies!

Watch the movie on your own, then join us for a discussion on Wednesday April 20th at 6pm on Zoom! Register to receive the link, and view our list of discussion questions here (SPOILER ALERT: please only view the discussion questions if you have watched the movie)!

Our pick for April is The Bookshop (2017) starring Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy. Available to stream for free with one of our favorite apps, Kanopy. Just sign up with your library card to access the full list of movie offerings!

This movie is also based on a book of the same title by Penelope Fitzgerald, available to check out from the library here and as a DVD available to check out here.

England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy).

As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one?

Winner of Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the Goya Awards.

"Coixet has a lyrical sense of place, and she has made a charming, well-acted adaptation that ably conjures visual pleasure out of the written word..." - Ella Taylor, NPR