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San Diego Mars Movie Night: MARTIAN CHRONICLES

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San Diego Mars Movie Night: MARTIAN CHRONICLES

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Mars Movie Night presents:
RAY BRADBURY’S THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

Friday, December 14, 2018
7:00pm - 1:00am (approx)

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
(USA, 1979) 293 minutes

Earth sends its first manned probe to Mars in 1999, and a jealous Martian murders the two astronauts when his wife has erotic dreams of meeting them.

Members of a subsequent expedition are hypnotized into believing that they have landed in the childhood community of their leader and have been reunited with deceased family and friends, and they are poisoned by the Martians.

Col. John Wilder leads a third expedition and learns that a chicken pox virus brought to Mars by the first two expeditions has almost eradicated the Martian population. A member of Wilder's team becomes obsessed with protecting Mars from Earthmen and murders some of the others in Wilder's party.

Colonists arrive on Mars to settle, among them priests seeking God, and a lone Martian masquerades as the most desired persons of various settlers.

Global war on Earth reduces man's natal planet to radioactive waste, and most of the settlers returned there prior to the holocaust. Wilder struggles to assemble the remaining humans on Mars, who cope with their loneliness in different ways and will not leave their piece of Mars, before Wilder meets a Martian of past or future who tells him the secret of simple Martian life and convinces him to abandon the Earth lifestyle.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7HAN1SdhQ

NOTE: We will be screening all three episodes of this miniseries, so prepare to stay past midnight.

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Showtime is 7:00pm at Studio 106 in the San Diego Reader Building at 2323 Broadway 92102 (the Golden Hill area just east of downtown San Diego).

Admission is FREE, and popcorn is provided (you can bring snacks or drinks to share).

Please RSVP to FILMIST MAC.COM or at https://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-Space/events/ as seating is limited.

For more information, visit: http://MarsMovieGuide.com

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NOTE: This event is cross-posted on several local Meetups.

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