Press Release
This summer, American Girl’s 2015 Girl of the Year, Grace Thomas, takes her story from page to screen in “An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success,” an inspiring feature-length movie from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
In the film, Grace has a passion for baking. But her skills are put to the test when she visits her uncle’s Parisian pastry shop and competes to save her grandparents’ troubled bakery.
With inspiring themes of friendship and empowerment, this heart-warming film stars Olivia Rodrigo and Virginia Madsen (“Witches of East End,” “Sideways”), and brings to vivid life this year’s popular Girl of the Year character and her stories.
This is the latest in a long line of fresh, modern, and family-friendly films from “American Girl” that also includes “McKenna Shoots for the Stars,” “Saige Paints the Sky,” and “Isabelle Dances into the Spotlight.”
The Backus Community Center in International Falls will be showing the movie this Tuesday (June 23) at 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6 p.m., with book sales and signings by local writer Mary Casanova, author of three “Grace” books that inspired the movie.
Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $3, with proceeds to benefit the Backus food programs and “Pennies for Play.”
Drawings also will be held for an American Girl “Grace” doll and other products.
