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August 22, 2024

PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES

A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion. […]
August 22, 2024

CLUB PARADISE

A retired Chicago firefighter partners with a reggae singer to turn a seedy Caribbean nightclub into a resort for affluent tourists. Director: Harold Ramis Stars: Robin […]
July 10, 2024

Karen Morgan

  Karen Morgan’s latest comedy album, Shiny Happy People Laughing (named with special permission from REM), was recorded last fall in her home town of Athens, […]
April 11, 2024

Kung Fu Panda 4

Enjoy Gorton’s annual summer family movie weekend and join us for a free showing of Kung Fu Panda 4 in the John & Nancy Hughes Theater! […]
September 21, 2023

Ghostbusters

Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers. […]
September 19, 2023

Clue

Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the […]
September 19, 2023

Babe

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs on a rural English farm, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
August 31, 2023

Chicago Comics

As seen on Comedy Central, Show Time, Oprah, HBO, Second City, Late Night, the Tonight Show, etc. Get ready for an outrageous evening of fun and […]
August 30, 2023

The Big Sick

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds […]
August 28, 2023

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they […]
August 25, 2023

The Big Sick

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds […]
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