EVENT: ADVANCED SCREENING
CATEGORY: N/A
WRITER/DIRECTOR: ERIC DARNELL
WRITER/DIRECTOR: TOM MCGRATH

COUNTRY: USA
LENGTH: 90 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
GENRE: ANIMATED
RATING: NR
AGES: ALL AGES

First Lady Mary Kaye Huntsman, the Western Governor's University, and the Salt Lake City Film Center invite you to a private screening of Dreamworks Madagascar. This event is free but requires tickets, which are available on a first come first served basis from the City Library Store: 524-8238.

It starts with the Central Park Zoo and the animals therein. The zoo’s star attraction is Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller), a happily captive lion. By day he wows massive crowds with his antics, at night he hangs out with his zoo friends: a zebra named Marty (voiced by Chris Rock), a hippo named Gloria (voiced by Jada Pinkett Smith), and Melman (voiced by David Schwimmer) a severely hypochondriac Giraffe. Alex loves captivity and has no idea about what’s outside his zoo. In fact, he doesn’t want to know. But Marty, facing his 10th birthday and middle age, starts thinking about what it might be like in the wild. Determined to find out, Marty escapes the zoo to head for the widest open spaces he can think of: Connecticut. Shocked, his zoo friends take off after him, planning an intervention to bring him to his senses and get him back in his pen. Naturally, the citizens of New York react poorly to hippos, monkeys, and penguins on the subway and things snowball until the whole lot of them ends up in the wild, specifically Madagascar.