Monday Motivational Movies - The Butler

We are honored to show movies that are inspiring and motivational, specifically relating to Black History Month! These movies will happen every Monday in February at 1:00pm. East Moline Library will supply popcorn and water, with extra snacks available for purchase. 

Please join us for the presentation of: The Butler (PG - 13)

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com) (Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327773/)