THE POLAR EXPRESS (2004) in 3D! | Movie + Cookie Exchange @ Jerry & Shirley's!

Movie + Cookie Exchange + Hot Chocolate @ Jerry & Shirley's Home in Fenton, MO.

The address will be group e-mailed to attendees 24 hours ahead of the event.
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• SCHEDULE

6:30PM: Show-up/Mingle
7:30PM: Movie - No one admitted after the movie starts
9PM: Discuss/Mingle.
10PM: Jerry & Shirley rudely GO TO BED!

Please bring 2 dozen of your favorite (Christmas) cookies to eat during the movie and we'll divide up what's left for each participant to take home. Please reveal what kind of cookies you'll bring in the Comments below on THIS page.

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JERRY TALKS ABOUT HIS EVENT: When I moved back to Alton in 2012 to spend more time with my young son, we splurged and bought the latest & greatest TV we could find...AND IT INCLUDED 3D! Since then, I've accumulated a couple of dozen pairs of 3D Glasses and a handful of 3D DVDs...including THE POLAR EXPRESS, which just so happens to be Shirley's FAVORITE Christmas Movie!

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Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on children's author Chris Van Allsburg's modern holiday classic of the same name, The Polar Express revolves around Billy (Hayden McFarland), who longs to believe in Santa Claus but finds it quite difficult to do so, what with his family's dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to the man himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa. The train's conductor (Tom Hanks) along with the other passengers help turn Billy's crisis in faith into a journey of self-discovery. A long-time fan of Van Allsburg's book, Hanks also helped produce the film.

NOTE: This movie was nominated for the following Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Original Song. Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for "Believe" by Josh Groban.

--Tracie Cooper, Allmovie

https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-polar-express-v286524 [Includes Trailer!]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Polar_Express_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Polar_Express_(film))
https://www.scripts.com/script/the_polar_express_16041