Lollipop Theater Network Premieres at Children's Memorial Hospital

Pediatric Patients Treated to a Screening of Over the Hedge

Chicago (PRWEB) July 27, 2006 -- Lollipop Theater Network will bring a little Hollywood magic to the pediatric patients at Children’s Memorial Hospital when it screens the animated feature, Over The Hedge, for an afternoon escape to the theater. The screening will be a “Mattie’s Movie Day” presentation and is being sponsored by the We Are Family Foundation in honor of Mattie J.T. Stepanek, New York Times best-selling poet, peacemaker and movie enthusiast. Over The Hedge is a tale of two animals that form an unlikely friendship as they and their furry counterparts learn to coexist in suburbia.

The all-day Lollipop event will take place on Thursday, July 27, 2006 with a special group screening at 2:00pm in the Janice and Kimberly Brown Family Life Center. There, the children will be treated to a red carpet welcome and will receive special movie memorabilia and a copy of one of Mattie's Heartsongs poetry books.

Lollipop Theater Network
Founded in 2001, Lollipop Theater Network (LOLLIPOP) is dedicated to bringing the laughter and magic of movies to children confined to hospitals nationwide, due to chronic or life-threatening illnesses. By working in collaboration with leading motion picture studios, LOLLIPOP brings current theatrical G, PG and PG-13 film releases into hospitals for group and bedside patient screenings. The organization has been able to offer its program to 30 hospitals across the country and has screened over 100 films since its inception. For more information, please visit: www.lollipoptheater.org

We Are Family Foundation
We Are Family Foundation celebrates our common humanity and the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate individuals of all ages about diversity, understanding, respect and multiculturalism; and to support those who are victims of intolerance. For more information, please visit www.wearefamilyfoundation.org

Children's Memorial Hospital
As the pediatric teaching facility for Northwestern University Medical School, Children's Memorial physicians see more than 200,000 patients a year. The hospital is one of only five institutions in the country to have a research center devoted solely to children. For the ninth consecutive year, US News & World Report has ranked Children's Memorial among the nation's top pediatric hospitals. The American Nurses Association also recognized the hospital as the first hospital in the state – and the first pediatric hospital in the nation – to receive its prestigious Nursing Excellence Magnet Award.

Notes
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