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SUMMARY:Weston Library Film Club: Hobson's Choice
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 19\, 2026 1:30—4:15 PM\nCommunity Room \n
 Weston Public Library\n87 School Street\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\nHOBSON’S 
 CHOICE 1954\, 108 minutes\nA decade before he made Lawrence of Arabia and 
 Doctor Zhivago\, David Lean directed this film set in 1880s Manchester. Ch
 arles Laughton plays Henry Hobson\, a drunken blowhard of a shopkeeper. Wi
 th his three adult daughters serving as unpaid employees\, Hobson sells hi
 gh-end boots made by his harried craftsman\, Will Mossup\, who is kept out
  of view in a dungeon-like basement workshop. Hobson’s flighty younger d
 aughters\, Alice and Vicky\, have suitors ready to marry them\, but Hobson
  is too stingy to provide a dowry. Hobson has no intention of letting his 
 ever-reliable eldest daughter Maggie marry\, having decided that she is to
 o valuable a worker. Maggie has other ideas—namely polishing up the tale
 nted but painfully shy Will as a husband with whom she can open her own sh
 op.\nWhat makes this film so vivid are the memorable performances. Laughto
 n\, for all his bluster is a veritable John Bull—the very soul of Englan
 d. Brenda De Banzie plays Maggie as a father’s daughter with an iron res
 olve and a generous heart. But it is John Mills who shines out\, as his Wi
 ll Mossup evolves from a beaten drudge to a capable merchant and loving pa
 rtner.\nBE ADVISED— this film is Not Rated\, with lots of drinking (most
 ly by Hobson)\, temperance\, stringent classism\, and a smoky old Manchest
 er worthy of Dickens.
LOCATION:Weston Public Library\, 87 School Street\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, W
 eston
URL:https://www.goingson.co/metrowest/weston/weston-public-library/weston-l
 ibrary-film-club-hobsons-choice-2026-11-19?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=refer
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DTSTAMP:20261110T052418Z
DTSTART:20261203T183000Z
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SUMMARY:Weston Library Film Club: To Be Announced
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 3\, 2026 1:30—4:15 PM\nCommunity Room \nW
 eston Public Library\n87 School Street\, Weston\, MA\, 02493
LOCATION:Weston Public Library\, 87 School Street\, Weston\, MA\, 02493\, W
 eston
URL:https://www.goingson.co/metrowest/weston/weston-public-library/weston-l
 ibrary-film-club-to-be-announced-2026-12-03?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=refe
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