The Paramount Theatre
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Doors: 6pm
Death Becomes Her: 7pm
Jawbreaker: 9pm

Double Feature: This ticket gets you into both films, but you are also welcome to attend just one. The second film will screen after a brief intermission.

Death Becomes Her
1992 | 104 min. | Color | DCP
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, and Isabella Rossellini

When a novelist loses her man to a movie star and former friend, she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. Years later, she returns home to confront the now-married couple, looking radiant. Her ex-husband's new wife wants to know her secret and discovers that she has been taking a mysterious drug which grants eternal life to the person who drinks it. The actress follows suit, but she discovers that immortality has a price in this cult-classic dark comedy.

Jawbreaker
1999 | 86 min. | Color | DCP
Directed by: Darren Stein
Cast: Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Tatyana Ali

The beautiful ones. The flawless four. Everyone wanted to be them. You know 'em. They went to your school, too. There's Courtney "Satan-in-heels" Shayne (Rose McGowan) and her pawn, Marcie Fox (Julie Benz), a legend in her own mind. Then there's angelic Julie Freedman (Rebecca Gayheart), doomed to be popular because of her looks, and lastly, the teen dream herself, Elizabeth Purr. When an ordinary kidnapping prank leaves the future prom queen dead, a deadly sweet prank leads to a cover-up makeover in this edgy and unpredictable comedy.

A computer hacker discovers the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers in this era-defining thrill ride from writers/directors Lilly and Lana Wachowski. Legendary martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping and visually astonishing “bullet time” effects contribute to one of the most breathtaking sci-fi films ever made.

-Stephen Jannise