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first run filmS
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Special Events

Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985 | PG | 90 min
Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), an eccentric child-like man, loves his red bicycle and will not sell it to his envious neighbor, Francis (Mark Holton). While Pee-wee visits his friend Dottie (Elizabeth Daily), the bike is stolen. Thinking his bike is at the Alamo, Pee-wee sets off on a trip, where he meets many remarkable people, including waitress Simone (Diane Salinger) and a motorcycle gang. Eventually, Pee-wee discovers that his bike is being used in a movie and tries to recover it.
Fri, April 18 at 9:30pm

Reefer Madness
1936 | PG | 67 min
"America's newest narcotic menace!"
"Drug-crazed abandon!"
"The burning weed with its roots in HELL!"
"Women cry for it - men die for it!"
To celebrate the 20th of April, Midtown Cinema will feature the most infamous propaganda film of all time, 1938's morality tale REEFER MADNESS - a movie of mayhem, drugs, sex, and murder, caused by the then little-understood drug making its way around America: cannabis.
In REEFER MADNESS, a trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with (gasp!)***jazz music***!!!
See this wildly inaccurate and inadvertently silly exploitation film at Midtown Cinema, accompanied by a ZeroDay beer (open for food and drinks til 8:00pm!)
tickets at the box office or midtowncinema.com
ABOUT THE FILM:
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll (Josef Forte) relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary (Dorothy Short) and Jimmy Lane (Warren McCollum) and Mary's boyfriend, Bill (Kenneth Craig), into frequenting a "reefer" house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime.