Movies

As the holidays approach, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is obsessed with having the perfect family Christmas, much to the chagrin of wife Ellen (Beverly D’Angelo). Things go awry when his hick cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) and his family show up, Clark's employers renege on the holiday bonus, and his children are recast for the second time in a row.

Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York in search of his real father — Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with Buddy, leading to emotional growth and public singing.

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists (led by Alan Rickman) who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there's no one to save the hostages — but himself and the true meaning of Christmas. Rated R (it helps if you say it in a really low voice).

When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home. Think Die Hard but with less swearing and the same amount of gratuitous violence!

Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to The Parkway with Transvestite Soup’s live holiday themed shadow cast! Put your best RHPS holiday costume on and come early for a cocktail!

Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. David (Hugh Grant), the handsome newly elected British prime minister, falls for a young junior staffer (Martine McCutcheon); Sarah (Laura Linney), is unable to balance her office love life with her devotion to her mentally ill brother; Harry (Alan Rickman), a married man, is tempted by his attractive new secretary; and Jamie (Colin Firth) falls for his Portuguese housekeeper. Because nothing says Christmas like inappropriate workplace romance! Join us before the movie for a live music set by Colin Bracewell!

It's the short film competition where YOU and other audience members decide what's worthy of the silver screen by yelling "GONG" or "LET IT PLAY.”

The glow of the holidays is behind us as we stare down the cold, grey Minnesota winter. So let’s get inside and laugh together! Afraid of commitment? You can always buy tickets to the individual films as well!

Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), the daughter of hard-drinking mom Annette (Ellen Barkin), and Becky Leeman (Denise Richards), who is motivated by her former beauty-queen mother, Gladys (Kirstie Alley), are among the top contenders in an annual beauty pageant in small-town Minnesota that turns ridiculously competitive — and ultimately into a literal glitter-soaked death match. Fargo meets Miss Congeniality. Twin Cities sensation Leslie Vincent brings the GLAM to the Parkway stage with a not-to-be-missed opening set.

When they arrive at college, socially inept freshmen Larry (Thomas Hulce) and Kent (Stephen Furst) attempt to pledge the snooty Omega Theta Pi House, but are summarily rejected. Lowering their standards, they try again at notoriously rowdy Delta Tau Chi, a house on the wrong end of the Dean’s List. Soon they find themselves on "Double Secret Probation" — a punishment so severe that no one knows what it means. Come early for a killer set by Goo Goo Mucks, guaranteed to bring the R-O-C-K!

King Arthur’s (Graham Chapman) quest goes completely off the rails when the film’s opening credits accidentally credit a moose wrangler who may or may not exist. As the kingdom spirals into chaos — llamas are hired, fired, and blamed for everything — Arthur abandons the Holy Grail entirely to investigate the Great Moose Mix-Up. The scandal grows, the credits department collapses, and the moose becomes a fugitive folk hero before the whole movie abruptly ends in bureaucratic confusion.

Oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) embarks on an underfunded revenge mission against a possibly imaginary shark, accompanied by a man who may or may not be his son (Owen Wilson). As they wander the ocean in a ship held together largely by nostalgia and epoxy, Zissou is forced to confront pirates, a long list of people who have grown tired of him, and the realization that unresolved relationships are significantly harder to outswim than any sea creature. Minneapolis rocker Chris Perricelli, aka Little Man, brings his signature swagger to the stage to kick-off the night!