The Truth Comes to Summit

Al Gore's documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, just started showing this weekend at the Clearview in Summit. My husband and I had been planning to see it, but had yet to find the time. Now that it was showing on an screen within walking distance from our house, we no longer had any excuse.

We showed up at the theater about ten minutes before the movie was scheduled to start and in a theater that only holds about seventy five people, there were already about 20 people seated. It was as if they were either concerned that the movie would be sold out or there were just filled with great anticipation. It was more likely the latter since Summit, being a fairly well off community within only about an hour of the ocean, generally becomes a bit of a ghost town on the weekends in July and August, particularly on weekends in which there is a holiday somewhere in the week.

As the movie began and Al Gore's narrative progressed, the anticipation, that I felt anyhow, quickly transformed into anxiety as Gore carefully made the case for and showed the current and projected effects of global warming.

I urge everyone to go and see this movie. If you were already convinced of the adverse effects of green house gas emmitions this movie will give you the tools to communicate the urgency and as Gore puts it "the moral imperative" of reversing the trend of global warming. If you are just not sure this movie may help you make up your mind. It doesn't matter if you are a republican, a democrat, a communist or an anarchist everything else that we disagree about will be a moot point if we have no planet on which to live. It is time that we all truly began to care for God's creation instead of just utilize it.

Here is a listing of theaters in NJ that are currently showing "An Incovenient Truth"

Belle Mead
Montgomery Cinemas Box 19 Belle Mead, NJ 08502

East Windsor
National Amusements Mutiplex Cinemas @ Towne Center Plaza 319 Us Highway 130 East Windsor, NJ 08520

Edgewater
National Amusements Edgewater Multiplex Cinemas 339 River Road Edgewater, NJ 07020

Hamilton
AMC Theatres Hamilton 24 325 Sloan Avenue Hamilton, NJ 08619

Maplewood
CJM Maplewood Sixplex 155 Maplewood Ave, Maplewood, NJ 07040

Montclair
Clearview Clairidge Cinemas 486 Bloomfield Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042

Morristown
Clearview Headquarters 10 72 Headquarters Plaza, Inside the Headquarters Shopping Mall, Morristown, NJ

New Brunswick
AMC Loews New Brunswick Theatre 17 US Highway #1 New Brunswick, NJ 08902

Pleasantville
Frank Theatres Towne Stadium 16 6733 Blackhorse Pike, Pleasantville, NJ 08232

Summit
Clearview Beacon Hill 5 343 Springfield Avenue, Summit, NJ 07901

Washington Township
Clearview Washington Township Cinemas 249 Pascack Rd Washington Township, NJ 07675

Voorhees
Ritz Theatres Ritz Sixteen 900 Berlin-Haddonfield Road Voorhees, NJ 08043