Summer Film Weekends Conclude with Family Flicks

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Kristen Gleason
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The Paramount Theater
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Charlottesville, VA 22902
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For Immediate Release

August 2, 2007

To round out its 2007 Summer Film Series, Charlottesville’s Paramount Theater concludes the movie schedule this month with a “Family Flicks” weekend on August 17 and 18.   The films Shrek and The Sound of Music will be shown in grand style, with the restored 1931 Paramount providing the perfect setting.  The August 17 showings of Shrek have been sponsored by Martha Jefferson Hospital’s Family Advisory Committee.

The title character in 2001’s Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is an ogre content to live a quiet life until the evil and heartless Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) banishes all fairy tale characters from his domain. Unfortunately for Shrek’s peace of mind, all of the fairy tale inhabitants flock to his home. To get them back where they belong and to regain the peaceful life, he sets out with his outspoken donkey friend (Eddie Murphy) on a quest to find Lord Farquaad’s future bride, Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz). By marrying the princess, Lord Farquaad will become king of all Duloc. What will become of the fairy tales then?

Loosely based on real events, the five Academy Award-winning Sound of Music is the story of the pre-World War II Austrian family that would become known the world over as The Trapp Family Singers: Georg (Christopher Plummer), retired Navy captain and grieving widower; Maria (Julie Andrews), nun-in-training and newly arrived governess; and the captain’s seven motherless children. Spirited and outgoing, Maria quickly wins over the children, who had made short work of earlier governesses. Winning over the austere captain takes a little longer.  Little by little, the affection mutually lavished by Maria and his children on each other thaws Georg‘s grieving heart. Their married life begins as they flee from Nazi-occupied Austria to the free world.

Shrek will show at 7 and 9 pm on Friday, August 17.  The Sound of Music will be screened on Saturday, August 18 at 2 and 6 pm. 

Admission for all movies is $6, with a Youth/Child price of $4 applying to those 12 and younger.  Tickets are available in advance for most showings.  Titles and dates are subject to change.  Additional movies will be offered in the fall.