Movies Under the Stars: Grease Sing-a-Long
08:30 PM– on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Pier I at 70th Street
Starring Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta & Stockard Channing. Directed by Randal Kleiser – 1978; 110 minutes; Rated PG
Rydell High’s most famous graduating class is going back to school. A newly restored print brings the highest-grossing musical of all time, GREASE (1978), to the big screen as a sing-along. Join Danny and Sandy with your own crew of T-Birds and Pink Ladies for a carnival ride back to those amazing summer nights!
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Movies Under the Stars: The Never Ending Story
08:30 PM– on Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Pier I @ 70th Street
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen – 1984; 102 minutes; NR
A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination!
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Movies Under the Stars: Pan’s Labyrinth
08:30 PM– on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Pier I @ 70th Street
Directed by Guillermo del Toro – 2007; 119 Minutes Rated R for graphic violence and some language
What happens when make-believe believes it’s real? In darkness, there can be light. In misery, there can be beauty. In death, there can be life…. In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
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Movies Under the Stars: Inkheart
08:30 PM– on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Pier I @ 70th Street
Starring Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory, Eliza Bennett; Directed by Iain Softley -2009; 106 minutes; Rated PG
Every story ever written is just waiting to become real. A young girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook’s hero.
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Movies Under the Stars: The Fall
08:30 PM– on Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Pier I @ 70th Street
Directed by Tarsem Singh – 2008; 117 minutes; R
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
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Movies Under the Stars: Big Fish
08:30 PM– on Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Pier I @ 70th Street
Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter
Directed by Tim Burton – 2004; 125 minutes; PG13
A story about a son trying to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself.
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Movies Under the Stars: Stranger than Fiction
08:30 PM– on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Pier I @ 70th Street
Starring Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, Dustin Hoffman
Directed by Marc Forster – 2006; 113 minutes; Rated PG-13
An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.