Miss watching the movies of yesteryear? Having a hard time watching a classic and then having no one to discuss the movie with? Southgate Recreation & Park District is offering a chance to meet up with your friends and watch current and older movies at Pat O’Brien Community Center. Movies will begin at 1PM, the second Thursday of each month, and after, you are welcome to hang out and discuss the movie with others. There will be light refreshments offered (you are welcome to bring your own), seating and the movie. For more information please call (916) 526-0234.

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film’s screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical’s book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.