Richmond Public Library to show the classic film ‘To Sir, With Love’

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WRIC 8 News announced that the Richmond Public Library will show the 1967 classic “To Sir, With Love” on Friday, September 27, 2024 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. for its Fourth Friday Films series.

The film will be shown in the meeting room at the Westover Hills Branch Library located at 1408 Westover Hills Blvd, Richmond, VA 23225.

About the movie

"To Sir, With Love" stars the late Sidney Poitier, who plays Mack Thackeray, a novice teacher. Thackeray faces a class of rowdy working-class students, and the film reflects the problems and fears of teenagers in the 1960s. The British drama film deals with social and racial issues in an inner-city school.

The film's title song, "To Sir with Love," sung by Lulu, was at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States for five weeks in the autumn of 1967 and became the best-selling single in the United States that year. Sidney Poitier was the first Black actor to win a Golden Globe Award.

For more information, visit the library’s website.