HEIGHTS THEATER

Dawn Davenport (Divine) wants it all: fame, fortune, adoration and, of course, cha-cha heels. After destroying her parents' home on Christmas morning, Dawn gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and then raises her kid while going on a lengthy crime spree in order to prove that "crime and beauty are the same." Some Xmas message, huh, kids? FEMALE TROUBLE needs to be seen to be believed, boasts a star-making turn by Divine, and is John Waters' flat-out masterpiece. With the mighty disturbing short "Santa's Enchanted Village" and 70s Ronald McDonald Mother Goose party intro on 35mm!

HOLIDAY INN has become a Heights New Year's Day tradition, and like WHITE CHRISTMAS sells out every year! IRVING BERLIN wrote the evergreen score, which includes Easter Parade, Lets Start the New Year Right, Lazy and of course, White Christmas.

A flop in its day, and one that destroyed Capra's production company, It's a Wonderful Life began to interest audiences again in the 1980s, and has since become a standard for holiday family viewing. George Bailey considers himself a failure: his Savings and Loan has lost a tremendous amount of money, and he has never achieved any "measurable" success, and so killing himself seems to be the only remaining option. From this grim premise comes one of the most evocative pictures about small town life, friendship and humility ever to grace the screen. Jimmy Stewart put in an outstanding performance that ranges from happy-go-lucky to serious to outright fury, a tour-de-force that would portend his work with Alfred Hitchock. If you haven't seen this on the big screen, be prepared: It's A Wonderful Life will leave you a grateful, tearful mess.

On the day after Christmas, Mia (Emma Stone), a struggling actress, meets Seb (Ryan Gosling), a struggling jazz pianist, and the pair fall in and out and in and out of love, all the while navigating their perilous careers in modern day Los Angeles. La La Land charmed audiences worldwide and is a modern musical classic. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Picture (for about five minutes).

A single mom, a depressed child, a drunken Santa and a city full of cynical souls—this should be the stuff of one bleak motion picture. But Miracle on 34th Street is as sweet a holiday confection as Hollywood ever produced, as a group of harried but good-hearted New Yorkers run headlong into a very real Santa Claus, who offers them hope and affection. Touching on themes of divorce, faith and even capitalism, Miracle is both candy and coal in abundance. Winner of 3 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Edmund Gwenn’s Kris Kringle.

The Heights Theater and Moon Palace Books present THE JANE ADDICTION, featuring a screening of the classic Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier adaptation from 1940, with a book club discussion of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen at Arbeiter Brewery. If there's one thing we know, it's that Janeites, as Jane Austen fans refer to themselves, are an obsessed bunch, poring over Austen's brilliant prose like it was scripture and devouring every cinematic adaptation. To celebrate the 250th birthday of arguably the greatest novelist in the English language, the Heights Theater and Moon Palace Books present THE JANE ADDICTION, a screening (on her birthday!) of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, the charming 1940 adaptation starring the greatest of all Darcys, Laurence Olivier, and, the next evening, a book club discussion sponsored by Moon Palace Books at Arbeiter (next door to the book store). Moon Palace will be on hand to sell copies of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Come celebrate your favorite author on her birthday!

“Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman, who won an Oscar for this role) is obsessed: he wants to rid the dirty streets of New York of "H"—heroin, plaguing his city like never before. With his partner, "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider, in a star-making turn), he’s a one-man wrecking crew, but his sights are set on nailing the top dealer, a wealthy man whose bringing in the stuff from France. Hackman was never better, and his exhausting foot chase after a dealer, while dressed as Santa!, makes this the perfect Coal or Candy confection.

You know the story: cheapskate Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine) is a total drag at the holidays, until he’s visited by a bunch of ghosts who turn him into an old softie who loves to share his wealth. But Charles Dickens’ classic has never been better than this one, with the full Muppet treatment! Caine and the Muppets have a chemistry that just shines, and THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is often regarded, by Muppet aficionados, as the finest of all their films.

A Heights Theater tradition, one of our most popular events - an event that sells out year after year! You will not want to miss the perennial TECHNICOLOR favorite, WHITE CHRISTMAS, on the big screen! Plus.....ON OUR STAGE! The big show starts with a special 20 minute concert by the wonderful MAUD HIXSON, singing a stocking full of your favorite holiday classics! Accompanied by Rick Carlson on the piano as well as A BOUNCING BALL SING ALONG at the end!! Also... A fantastic preshow concert by LOU HURVITZ and ED COPELAND on the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!