CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Second Sunday Cinema's final presentation of 2014 on Dec. 14 will be “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.”

The film will be shown at Clearlake United Methodist Church, 14521 Pearl Ave.

Doors open at 5:45 p.m., with the film beginning at 6 p.m.

This delightful film, starring Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith, was listed as one of “the most spiritually literate” films of 2012 by the Web site, Spirituality and Practice.

The film takes viewers along with a small group of English retirees who cannot afford to fade away in rainy old England.

So they sign up to move into what they expect to be a luxurious hotel in sunny India – and indeed, it was once the palace of a raja. But it has seen better days, as has so very much in India. And these English people have seen better days as well. 

Some of them are determined to hold on to those “better days” – at the expense of the present. But others find ways to open to exciting new possibilities in an old and exciting land.

Seen from a certain perspective, these folks – with varying degrees of eagerness and consciousness – embark on a quest, a calling, an adventure into the unknown that will, for the few, lead them into unanticipated, joyous new life.

With this charming, funny and heartfelt film, Second Sunday Cinema closes out a full eight years in Clearlake.

Second Sunday Cinema will reopen in the Kelseyville Methodist Church on Jan. 11 – as always, on the second Sunday of every month but at 3 p.m.

For more information call Shannon Tolson at 707-889-7355.