Name: Book to Movie Saturdays (Main Library)
Start: 2025-09-20T14:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-20T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Abilene Public Library

Join your library in the return of the Book to Movie Saturdays session where we show popular movies from the past that were based on books. At this session, we’ll be watching a true story and starring Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner. In this film, based on the bestselling book by Daniel James Brown, it tells the story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. This inspirational true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they are trust into the spotlight and take on elite rivals from around the world. This film is rated PG-13 for language and smoking and has a run time of 2 hours and 3 minutes.