Midway Drive-In Theatre

2010: Week 26

Playing October 20 - 21

SPECIAL TWO NIGHT ENGAGEMENT OF TWO HIGHLY ACCLAIMED FILMS FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CINEMA VENTURE
Please note showtimes for this program

RESTREPO

ONE PLATOON, ONE VALLEY, ONE YEAR

RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistans Korengal Valley
Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban

Rated R for language throughout including some descriptions of violence

Length: 94 minutes
Genre: Documentary, War
Starring Sundance Film Festival ...Winner

More info in the Internet Movie Database

Starting Times
Wednesday      7:30 pm
Thursday      9:10 pm

THE WILDEST DREAM

THE CONQUEST OF MOUNT EVEREST
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later

Rated PG for thematic elements involving hardships of climbing, and some historical smoking

Length: 94 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Starring Narrated by: Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes

More info in the Internet Movie Database

Starting Times
Wednesday      9:10 pm
Thursday      7:30 pm