MIT Lecture Series Committee

September 8, 11 & 12, 2015

Rated PG
94 minutes

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Inside Out (2015)

FREE admission and popcorn, sponsored by the de Florez Fund for Humor!

The Transformers: MIT's team at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (6:00 pm on September 12 only!)

A group of students from all across MIT came together to form a team to compete at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge in Pomona, CA. This short documentary tells the story of their adventure -- from the last two weeks before the competition, to a day-by-day account of the DRC competition. There will be a discussion and Q&A with several of the student team members after the screening.

Emotions run wild in the mind of a little girl who is uprooted from her peaceful life in the Midwest and forced to move to San Francisco in this Pixar adventure from director Pete Docter (Up, Monsters Inc.). Young Riley was perfectly content with her life when her father landed a new job in San Francisco, and the family moved across the country. Now, as Riley prepares to navigate a new city and attend a new school, her emotional headquarters becomes a hot bed of activity. As Joy (voice of Amy Poehler) attempts to keep Riley feeling happy and positive about the move, other emotions like Fear (voice of Bill Hader), Anger (voice of Lewis Black), Disgust (voice of Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) make the transition a bit more complicated. [www.allmovie.com]

Inside Out [is] a bold, gorgeous, sweet, funny, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, candy-colored adventure that deserves an Academy Award nomination for best picture.
      -- Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times. Read this review.