Late Night Cult Classics

Friday, July 3rd and Saturday, July 4th at 10:00 p.m.
Admission: $5.00

LATE NIGHT CULT CLASSIC PRESENTED BY BOOKMANS
http://www.bookmans.com
THE GREATEST CULT MOVIES OF ALL-TIME ARE BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN IN 35 MM!

"A wonderfully touching sci-fi tale that's one of horror master John Carpenter's most unexpected and underrated movies. It’s definitely one of the best sci-fi flicks you’ve probably never seen." - Scott Weinberg, APOLLO MOVIE GUIDE

"In 1977 Voyager II was launched into space, inviting all lifeforms in the universe to visit our planet. Get ready. Company's coming."

While many genre movie buffs are likely to call HALLOWEEN the best movie from John Carpenter, others -- die-hard romantics and anyone who cried while watching E.T. -- might vote in favor of the director's vastly-underrated 1984 hit STARMAN.
STARMAN is easily Carpenter's warmest and most beguiling film, and the only one that ever earned an Oscar nomination. That honor went specifically to Best Actor nominee JEFF BRIDGES (two years after he battled an evil video game in TRON, and many years before he chilled out as "The Dude" in BIG LEBOWSKI) for his stellar performance as an alien visitor to Earth who is knocked off course and must take an interstate road trip to rendezvous with a mothership from his home planet. To complete this journey he assumes the physical form of the dead husband of a Wisconsin widow (KAREN ALLEN, in her genre follow-up to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK) who responds first with fear, then sympathy, and finally love.
Carpenter's surprisingly graceful strategy is to switch the focus of this E.T.-like film from science fiction to a road-movie love story, made believable by the memorable performances of Bridges and Allen.
Coming on the heels of his supremely horrific alien thriller THE THING, Carpenter here presents an entirely different (and lighthearted) take on the "visitor from another planet" theme and hits it out of the park. You may be prepared to scream at a Carpenter film, but how prepared are you to shed a tear? If you're not choked up during STARMAN's final scene, well, you just might not be human.