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In this quirky dark comedy inspired by a real life story you will hardly
believe is actually true, astonishing revelations about a top-secret wing
of the U.S. military come to light when a reporter encounters an enigmatic
Special Forces operator on a mind-boggling mission. Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan
McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady
(George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental
U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the
way wars are fought. A legion of "Warrior Monks" with unparalleled
psychic powers can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and
even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program's founder, Bill
Django (Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady's mission is to find him.
Intrigued by his new acquaintance's far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides
to accompany him on the search. When the pair tracks Django to a clandestine
training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey), the reporter
is trapped in the middle of a grudge match between the forces of Django's
New Earth Army and Hooper's personal militia of super soldiers. An eye-opening
and often hilarious exploration of the government's attempts to harness paranormal
abilities to combat its enemies, inspired by Jon Ronson's non-fiction bestseller
of the same name. Official
Web Site Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review... |
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Based on true events and developed from eyewitness accounts during World
War II, Ole Christian Madsen's political thriller is an ultra-stylized and
remarkable spy noir about the murky moral complexities of wartime. Copenhagen,
1944. World War II is entering its final stretch in Europe. Denmark is occupied
by Nazi Germany. Two resistance fighters nicknamed Flame (Thure Lindhardt)
and Citron (Mads Mikkelsen, Casino Royale) become heroes of the underground
dealing violently with traitors to their cause. When the pair is sent to execute
Flame's lover Ketty (Stine Stengade), the line between ally and enemy is blurred,
forcing them to determine their own orders, which starts with killing the
much-hated and feared chief of the Gestapo, Karl Heinz Hoffman (Christian
Berkel). Official
Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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An Education is the story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age set in
1961 London, a city caught between the drab, post-war 1950s and the glamorous,
more liberated decade to come. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) stands on the brink
of becoming a woman: a brilliantly witty and attractive 16-year-old whose
suburban life is about to be blown apart by the utterly unsuitable 30-something
David (Peter Sarsgaard). Urbane and witty, David manages to charm her conservative
parents Jack (Alfred Molina) and Marjorie (Cara Seymour). David introduces
Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and late-night suppers
with his attractive friend and business partner, Danny (Dominic Cooper) and
Danny's girlfriend, the beautiful but vacuous Helen (Rosamund Pike). Just
as Jenny's family's long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into
Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of life. Written
by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity) and directed by Lone Scherfig
(Italian for Beginners). Official Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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| Since the birth of movies, New York has long been cinema's dream city—its teeming populace of one-of-a-kind characters, its stone-and-glass skyscrapers rocketing towards the heavens, its subterranean cultures and its rooftop love affairs all making for the perfect backdrop to all manner of action, comedy, drama and poetry. Directed by an eclectic group of some of today's most imaginative filmmakers, including Mira Nair, Yvan Attal, Brett Ratner, Natalie Portman and Fatih Akin, New York, I Love You is a collective film that invites the audience into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Their stories are woven together to form a colorful, lyrical collage not only of the city—but of the deep yearning for love and human connections that sustain everyone within it. All-star cast includes Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Ethan Hawke, Anton Yelchin, James Caan, Olivia Thilrlby, Julie Christie, John Hurt, Shia LaBeouf, Shu Qi, Burt Young, Chris Cooper, Robin Wright Penn, Eva Ammuri, Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman. Official Web Site |
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| A little girl who is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of France, who waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come for her… A cabaret performer with a weak voice who sings to an audience of drunken soldiers… A humble seamstress, who stitches hems at the back of a provincial tailor's shop… A young, skinny courtesan, to whom protector Étienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde) offers a safe haven, amongst the idle and decadent… A woman in love who knows she will never be anyone’s wife, refusing marriage even to Arthur 'Boy' Capel (Alessandro Nivola), the man who returned her love… A rebel who finds the conventions of her time oppressive, and instead dresses in her lovers' clothes… This is the story of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (Audrey Tautou, Amélie), who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey becomes the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. Official Web Site |
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Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna (Nisreen Faour), a single
mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi (Melkar Muallem), her teenage son,
with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small-town Illinois.
In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move
through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new
life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle.
Told with heartfelt humor by writer/director Cherien Dabis in her feature
film debut, Amreeka is a universal journey into the lives of a family
of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage
and the new world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a
place to call home. Co-starring Hiam Abbass (The Visitor, Lemon Tree).
Official Web Site How autobiographical is writer/director Cherien Dabis's debut feature? Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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The new dramatic comedy from the Coen Brothers (Burn After Reading, Fargo)
is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson
Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. It is 1967, and
Larry (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university,
has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving
him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy (Fred
Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry.
Larry's unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch,
his son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew
school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his
wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy blithely
make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a
burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry's chances
for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying
to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue
him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing
nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different
rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous
person—a mensch—a serious man? Official
Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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Inspired by a true story, The Boys Are Back is a deeply moving, wryly
confessional tale of fatherhood that intimately evokes both the fragility
and wonders of family life. It follows a witty, wisecracking, action-oriented
sportswriter (Clive Owen) who, in the wake of his wife’s tragic death,
finds himself in a sudden, stultifying state of single parenthood. With turbulent
emotions swirling just below the surface, Joe Warr throws himself into the
only child-rearing philosophy he thinks has a shot at bringing joy back into
their lives: “Just say yes.” Raising two boys—a curious six-year-old
and a rebel teen from a previous marriage—in a household devoid of feminine
influence, and with an unabashed lack of rules, life becomes exuberant, instinctual,
reckless...and on the constant verge of disaster. United by unspoken love,
conflicted by fierce feelings and in search of a road forward, the three multi-generational
boys of the Warr household, father and sons alike, must each find their own
way, however tenuous, to grow up. Their story is not just about the transforming
power of a family crisis—but the unavoidable grace of everyday life and
love that gets them through. Directed by Scott Hicks (Shine). Official
Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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In Capitalism: A Love Story, filmmaker Michael Moore (Sicko, Fahrenheit
9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Roger & Me) tackles an issue he has been
examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance
on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
Moore explores the root causes of the
global economic meltdown and takes a comical look at the corporate and political
shenanigans that culminated in what he has described as the biggest robbery
in the history of this country—the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer
money to private financial institutions. Official
Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
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Written and directed by Academy Award winner Jane Campion (The Piano),
Bright Star is a riveting drama based on the three-year romance between
19th century poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish),
which was cut short by Keats' untimely death. London, 1818—a secret love
affair begins between 23-year-old English poet John Keats and the girl next
door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started
at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in
general. But when Keats's younger brother falls ill John and Fanny are drawn
together. Keats, touched by Fanny's efforts to help care for his brother,
agrees to teach her poetry. By the time Fanny's alarmed mother (Kerry Fox)
and Keats's best friend Charles Armitage Brown (Paul Schneider) realize their
attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Official
Web Site Colin Covert's Star Tribune review... |
Twin Cities Premiere!
Fri & Sat, Nov 6 & 7 at Midnight at the Uptown!
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A priest becomes a vampire…another man’s wife is coveted…a
deadly seduction triggers murder. Thirst is the new film from director
Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Lady
Vengeance). Already a boxoffice smash in Korea, Thirst was honored
with the Prix du Jury at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival. Continuing
his explorations of human existence in extreme circumstances, the director
spins a tale that he conceived and then developed over several years with
co-screenwriter Chung Seo-kyung. Sang-hyun (played by top Korean star Song
Kang-ho of The Host) is a priest who cherishes life; so much so, that
he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to
eradicate a deadly virus. But the virus takes the priest, and a blood transfusion
is urgently ordered up for him. The blood he receives is infected, so Sang-hyun
lives—but now exists as a vampire. Struggling with his newfound carnal
desire for blood, Sang-hyun’s faith is further strained when a childhood
friend’s wife, Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin), comes to him asking for his help
in escaping her life. Sang-hyun soon plunges into a world of sensual pleasures,
finding himself on intimate terms with the Seven Deadly Sins. Official Web Site Writer/Director Park Chan-wook didn't set out to make a vampire film |
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the Korean vampire thriller Thirst · Nov 6 & 7 Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft in The Graduate · Nov 13 & 14 Don't miss the Twin Cities Premiere of the Blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite · Nov 20 & 21 Join live shadow cast Transvestite Soup for the cult musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show · Sat, Nov 28 only! New 35mm print! The Goonies · Dec 4 & 5 Acclaimed vampire thriller Let The Right One In · Dec 11 & 12 Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's The Thing · Dec 18 & 19 Join live shadow cast Transvestite Soup for the cult musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show · Sat, Dec 26 only! |
Starts Friday, November 13
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| The award-winning drama Skin tells one of the most unusual and moving true stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa. Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo, The Secret Life of Bees) is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners (Sam Neill, Alice Krige) who are unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their 'white' little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra's thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 13 at the Uptown Theatre
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| A grieving couple retreat to 'Eden,' their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse… Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (winner of the Best Actress Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival) give brave, outstanding performances in the new provocation from writer/director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville). Antichrist is a totally uncompromising psychological horror film conceived and made while the director was experiencing emotional challenges in his own life. Reviewing the intense and controversial film at its Cannes premiere, Roger Ebert called it "powerfully made" and continued: "The performances by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are heroic and fearless…Von Trier's visual command is striking…And if you can think beyond what he shows to what he implies, its depths are frightening…Von Trier has reached me and shaken me." Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 13 at the Lagoon Cinema
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| In the new comedy from director/co-writer Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), Michael Angarano stars as Benjamin, a teenager being home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge). A loveable loner, Benjamin's passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by legendary fantasy novelist Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker. Official Web Site |
One Week Only!
Starts Friday, November 13 at the Lagoon Cinema
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| Three years in the making, this shocking investigative documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brothers Keeper, Paradise Lost,Metallica:Some Kind of Monster) tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film examines a complex situation from all angles, while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, describes the film as "absolutely the most powerful, emotion-provoking, heart-wrenching documentary I have ever seen." Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 20 at the Edina Cinema
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| In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband's death, Will's emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival. Featuring tour-de-force performances from Foster, Harrelson and Morton, and a brilliant directorial debut by Oren Moverman, The Messenger brings us into the inner lives of these outwardly steely heroes to reveal their fragility with compassion and dignity. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 20 at the Lagoon Cinema
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| Set in Harlem in 1987, Precious is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) is a 16-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo'Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination. Winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Co-starring Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd and Lenny Kravitz. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 20
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A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a
brooding new music composer in this comic take on the state of contemporary
art. Adam Goldberg (Two Days In Paris) plays the composer, whose work
calls for paper crumpling, glass breaking and bucket kicking. Marley Shelton
(Grindhouse) plays the gorgeous Chelsea gallerist, whose latest show
features an artist (Vinnie Jones, Snatch) who employs taxidermy and
household objects. Further complicating the affair is the composer's brother
Josh (Eion Bailey, "Band of Brothers"), whose highly commercial
art work—the financial backbone of the gallery—is sold to corporate
clients discreetly out of the gallery's back room. Directed and co-written
by Jonathan Parker (Bartleby). Official
Web Site Director/co-writer Jonathan Parker on creativity and success |
One Week Only!
Starts Friday, November 20 at the Lagoon Cinema
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| We Live In Public is the story of the internet's revolutionary impact on human interaction as told through the incredible and tumultuous life story of internet pioneer and visionary Josh Harris. As far back as the early '90s, Harris predicted a future dominated by life online and created the companies that were direct predecessors to MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. The tale turns ugly when his underground NYC bunker, housing dozens of permanent "citizens" and outfitted with hundreds of surveillance cameras, is busted by FEMA as a millennial cult. Harris decides to take the experiment a step further by rigging his loft with 24-hour surveillance live on the web, and in doing so becomes a media casualty, losing his girlfriend, money and mind. Both a visionary and a walking cautionary tale, Harris proved how in the not-so-distant future of life online, we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including the six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we may well pay for living in public. Directed by Ondi Timoner (DiG!). Official Web Site |
Fri & Sat, Nov 20 & 21 at Midnight at the Uptown!
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| When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. A affectionate spoof of—and tribute to—Blaxploitation films of the 1970s, filmed as if it was a lost relic of that prolific era. Official Web Site |
Starts Wednesday, November 25
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| Viggo Mortensen leads a stellar cast (including Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce) in the epic, post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father (Moretensen) and his young son (newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. A masterpiece of adventure, The Road is adapted from author Cormac McCarthy's (No Country for Old Men) beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of—a future in which father and son are sustained by love. Directed by John Hillcoat (The Proposition). Official Web Site |
Starts Wednesday, November 25
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| Legendary action-cinema master John Woo and international superstar Tony Leung reunite for the first time since the 1992 classic Hard Boiled in this epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. Red Cliff opens as power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) seeks permission from the Han dynasty Emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush the two troublesome warlords who stand in his way, Liu Bei (You Yong) and Sun Quan (Chang Chen). As the expedition gets underway, Cao Cao's troops rain destruction on Liu Bei's army, forcing him into retreat. Liu Bei's military strategist Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) knows that the rebels’ only hope for survival is to form an alliance with rival warlord Sun Quan, and reaches out to Sun Quan’s trusted advisor, war hero Zhou Yu (Tony Leung). Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao’s brutal, fast-approaching army, the warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign—unrivaled in history—that changes the face of China forever. A massive hit in Asia and the most expensive Asian film production of all time, Red Cliff is a breathtaking war epic that marks the triumphant return of John Woo. Official Web Site |
Starts Friday, November 27
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| Frustrated with religious turmoil, fanaticism and fundamentalism, filmmaker Peter Rodger set out on a global quest to understand why the concept of God has become politicized. In his stunningly beautiful documentary film, Rabbis, Christian Fundamentalists, Catholic Priests, Buddhist Llamas, Hindu Swamis, Zen Masters, Muslim radicals, Shamans and ordinary people across the globe share their unique perspectives and understanding of God, along with several celebrities including Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Starr, Sir Bob Geldof, Princess Michael of Kent, David Copperfield and Jack Thompson. The film is set amongst beautiful backdrops around the world, filmed in 23 countries over three years. From the 9th ward of New Orleans to the Guatemalan Jungle, to the Himalayan region of Ladahk, Rodger searches for the common thread in our diverse humanity and reveals that which often divides us can also unite us. The film features inviting faces and personalities that are a touching reminder of the melting pot that we call humanity and the mystery that we have given many names. Official Web Site |
Sat, Nov 28 at Midnight at the Uptown!
Featuring Transvestite Soup LIVE!
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| The longest-running midnight movie of all time stars Tim Curry as the kinky yet endearing “transsexual from Transylvania” Dr. Frank N. Furter, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as his hapless guests Brad and Janet, Meat Loaf as motorcycle-riding rough trade and author Richard O’Brien as the hunchbacked butler Riff Raff. It’s harmless musical fun—a delightful spoof of Hollywood horror movies and Old Dark House melodramas. All of our engagements feature live casts who perform scenes during the movie, and the audience is always welcome to respond to the on-screen action. The Rocky Horror Picture was the first—and is still the best—interactive movie experience! Official Web Site |
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