Festive Flicks: 7 Classic Christmas Movies Showing at Local Theaters
What's your favorite Christmas film? There's a good chance that it will be showing at a movie theater in central Arkansas this holiday season! Several theaters will bring old Christmas movies back to the big screen, including true classics like "Miracle on 34th Street" and more recent favorites like "Elf" and "Home Alone." Here's where you can see special holiday screenings!
B&B Little Rock Chenal 9 Imax
National Lampoon's Christmas Vaction (PG-13): Like all of the goofy flicks in the National Lampoon franchise, you can expect hilarious disaster after disaster. Thanks for the chuckles, Chevy Chase. 4 & 7 p.m. Dec. 1, 3.
Home Alone (PG): An 8-year-old boy, played by Macaulay Culkin, is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas. As they desperately try to return home, the boy defends his home against idiotic burglars in inventive (and hilarious) ways. 10 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Dec. 5.
Elf (PG): Relive Buddy the Elf's journey from Santa's Workshop at the North Pole to the Rockefeller Center in New York City in this heartwarming family favorite starring Will Ferrell. 4 & 7 p.m. Dec. 8, 10.
A Christmas Story (PG): Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift. 10 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Dec. 12.
Irving Berlin's White Christmas: This Technicolor charmer from 1954 stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as a song-and-dance act who team up with a pair of lovely lasses to put on a Christmas show and save a friend's failing Vermont lodge. 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Dec. 13.; 4 & 7 p.m. Dec. 14-16.
Entry to Retro Night movies at B&B Little Rock Chenal 9 is $5. For info, click here.
Colonel Glenn 18+ Xtreme
National Lampoon's Christmas Vaction (PG-13): Like all of the goofy flicks in the National Lampoon franchise, you can expect hilarious disaster after disaster. Thanks for the chuckles, Chevy Chase. 2 p.m. Dec. 6.
It's a Wonderful Life (PG): Don't miss the 1946 classic starring James Stewart and Donna Reed. In the film, an angel helps the conflicted George Bailey see what life would have been like if he had never existed. 2 p.m. Dec. 13.
Miracle on 34th Street (PG): In this 1947 film starring Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara and John Payne, an old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized—until a young lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he is the real Kris Kringle. 2 & 7 p.m. Dec. 20.
For more info on special events at Colonel Glenn 18+ Xtreme, click here.
Riverdale 10 Cinema
Irving Berlin's White Christmas: This Technicolor charmer from 1954 stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as a song-and-dance act who team up with a pair of lovely lasses to put on a Christmas show and save a friend's failing Vermont lodge. 7 p.m. Dec. 8.
For more info on special screenings at Riverdale 10 Cinema, click here.
Ron Robinson Theater at Central Arkansas Library System
A Christmas Story (PG): Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift. 7 p.m. Dec. 4.
It's a Wonderful Life (PG): Don't miss the 1946 classic starring James Stewart and Donna Reed. In the film, an angel helps the conflicted George Bailey see what life would have been like if he had never existed. 7 p.m. Dec. 10.
Home Alone (PG): An 8-year-old boy, played by Macaulay Culkin, is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas. As they desperately try to return home, the boy defends his home against idiotic burglars in inventive (and hilarious) ways. 7 p.m. Dec. 12.
Tickets to holiday films at Ron Robinson Theater are $5 each. For more info, click here.