Spiritual Cinema Series 
Tuesdays with Morrie
Wed, Mar 25, 5pm
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Insurgentes 25
50 pesos

Life lessons By Sergio Rodriguez

We all have mentors, people whose words and deeds teach us what life is all about. Mitch Albom’s mentor was Morrie Schwartz, who, 20 years before, had been his college professor. Albom rediscovered Morrie, dying from ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), in the last months of his old teacher's life. He began visiting him every Tuesday, just as he had in college, and their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class” in how to live. 

Tuesdays with Morrie is a beautiful adaptation of Albom’s bestselling 1997 memoir. Jack Lemmon plays Morrie, whose indomitable spirit is still whole regardless of the medical obstacles he faces. Hank Azaria plays Mitch, a work-obsessed Detroit sportswriter. Having seen a terminal Morrie talking to Ted Koppel on ABC’s Nightline, Mitch contacted him. The book based on their tape-recorded conversations, initially proposed to pay Morrie’s medical bills, spent 205 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller Llist. 

The movie is rich in themes of community, family and friends, giving back, struggle and acceptance, love and death. As usual, we will explore some of these in our post-film discussion.