June 24, 2009

 

 

The Michigan Theater is pleased to once again recognize the contributions to our country by members of the U.S. military. Throughout Fourth of July Weekend - Friday, July 3 through Sunday, July 5 - both military veterans and active personnel will be admitted FREE to all film screenings at the Michigan Theater.

The films showing Fourth of July Weekend include "ICE AGE: THE DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS," the latest in the popular animated series capturing the antics of prehistoric creatures Manny, Ellie, Sid and Diego, voiced by Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary. Rated PG.

Opening on Friday, July 3, CHERI paints a picture of the romance between young Chéri (Rupert Friend) and retired courtesan Léa (Michelle Pfeiffer). Stephen Frears, the Oscar-nominated director of The Queen and High Fidelity, continues to demonstrate his genre-defying talent with this adaptation of the Colette novel, set in Paris in the years before World War I. Screenwriter Christopher Hampton previously collaborated with the director on Dangerous Liaisons. Rated R.

Finally, Steve McQueen stars as a hard-driving, tough-as-nails San Francisco cop stars in the 1968 classic BULLITT. The edge-of-the seat thriller's most memorable scene is the celebrated car chase, in which McQueen, an expert automobile and motorcycle racer, does his own stunt driving - at speeds up to 115 miles an hour! Rated PG.

Veterans and servicemen and servicewomen are also eligible for a discounted ticket price of $7.00 for regular Michigan Theater-sponsored movies all year round. This program is made possible by a generous grant from the Merton & Regina Allen Memorial Fund. The primary purpose of the fund, established through the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, is "to support programming, events and special initiatives for United Sates Armed Forces veterans, with preference to disabled veterans and those who served in action, at the Michigan Theater (a Code Section 501(c)(3) organization)."