Bring the whole family to this G-PG–rated new release. Meeting date is Wednesday, August 11, 2010, at 6 p.m. Snacks are provided. This month’s movie is Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Please register at 618-433-2881.
To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. It’s a place rigged with hundreds of social land mines, not the least of which are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor—and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties. To survive the never-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises an endless series of can’t-miss schemes, all of which, of course, go awry. And he’s getting it all down on paper, via a diary—“It’s NOT a diary, it’s a journal!” Greg insists, preferring the less-sissyfied designation—filled with his opinions, thoughts, tales of family trials and tribulations, and (would-be) schoolyard triumphs. “One day when I’m famous,” writes Greg, “I’ll have better things to do than answer people’s stupid questions all day.” So was born the Wimpy Kid’s diary.