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Free Screenings Planned Of ‘Mary Poppins Returns’

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Local audiences will have ten opportunities this weekend to take in a free viewing of one of the recent holiday season’s most popular films.

Mary Poppins Returns will be featured at Edmond Town Hall Friday through Thursday, February 15-21. Ingersoll Auto of Danbury has announced it will sponsor the first three days of that run: Friday, February 15, at 7 and 9:30 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, February 16-17, at 1, 4, 7, and 9:30 pm.

The film will continue at the theater inside 45 Main Street on Monday, February 18 (Presidents Day), at 1, 4, 7, and 9:30 pm; Tuesday, February 19, at 1 and 7 pm; and Wednesday and Thursday, February 20-21, at 7 pm.

Tickets for those shows are $3 each. Senior citizens can purchase tickets for $2 at the Tuesday matinee screening.

The film picks up decades after the magical nanny (played in the updated film by Emily Blunt) returns to help the grown-up Banks siblings (Ben Wishaw and Emily Mortimer), and Michael Banks’s three children, following a personal tragedy. Angela Lansbury and Dick Van Dyke have special appearances in the new film, which also features Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, and Colin Firth in its cast.

Mary Poppins Returns is rated PG (mild thematic elements and brief action), and it has a running time of 2 hours, 10 minutes. It was released in December.

The film has been nominated for four Oscars — Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures-Original Score, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures-Original Song, Best Achievement in Costume Design, and Best Achievement in Production Design — and four Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy.

AARP named Mary Poppins Returns the 2019 Best Intergenerational Film, AFI Awards named it 2019’s Movie of the Year, among other honors the film has picked up.

It had earned $169.8 million in the United States as of February 11, nearly eight weeks after its release. Globally, the film had reportedly made $307.8 million as of January 21. 

Local audiences have seven days of Mary Poppins Returns screenings coming up at Edmond Town Hall. Savvy viewers will make a point of visiting the historic building at 45 Main Street during the first three days of that run, however, if they’d like to enjoy a free viewing of the recent release.

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