HAPPINESS Colloquium at Lebanon Valley College Features "You Can't Take It with You"

The 1939 movie will screen February 26 in the Allen Theatre

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"You Can't Take It with You" will screen February 26 at 5:30 p.m. in the Allen Theatre.

ANNVILLE, PA (02/04/2013)(readMedia)-- The HAPPINESS Colloquium film series at Lebanon Valley College will screen the 1938 film "You Can't Take It with You" in Annville's Allen Theatre Tuesday, February 26 at 5:30 p.m. Tickets for the public are $3 or $1 for non-LVC students. LVC students will be admitted free with their student ID.

Although a romantic comedy in the traditional view, "You Can't Take It with You" explores the serious lifestyle collide between Alice Sycamore, a simple stenographer, and Tony Kirby, a man from a stuffy and arrogant family, who ultimately fall in love with one another. Their ideas of happiness are challenged upon meeting one another's families.

It is quickly obvious that Sycamore's family is eccentric: they care not for money but for being social and having fun. When the two families meet, with the Sycamore family as a collection of free spirits and the Kirby family exuberating wealth, both lifestyle and philosophy collide head on. "You Can't Take It with You" explores what makes each of these families happy in a fun and entertaining way.

"You Can't Take It with You" was nominated for seven Oscars in 1939 and won Best Director and Best Picture.

HAPPINESS is a year-long integrated series of guest speakers, roundtable discussions, films and courses that will consider the meaning and importance of happiness as a psychological, physiological, social and cultural phenomenon. It involves presentations by speakers from a number of disciplines who approach the theme from the standpoints of the arts, the wellness of body and mind, the demands of a consumer economy, the expectations and duties of political life, and the broad philosophical questions of human flourishing. On the web at www.lvc.edu/live-calendar.