First Friday Film: The Public

On the coldest night of the year, a Cincinnati librarian is caught between a group of homeless patrons staging a sit-in and a face-off with the local police and the media. Emilio Estevez wrote, directed and stars in this film, his gift of love to public libraries and a film 12 years in the making. Also starring Alec Baldwin, Jena Blum, Taylor Schilling, and Christian Slater.