Free Outdoor Movies at Landmark Park

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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Mar 22 2012 12:25 PM

DOTHAN) Spend a gorgeous night outside at Landmark Park and enjoy a movie under the stars. Bring a blanket or lawn chair, a picnic dinner and your family and friends. The Martin Drugstore and Shelley General Store will be open selling popcorn, ice cream and other refreshments. Gates open at 6 p.m. and the movies will begin at dusk. Admission is free and the movies are sponsored by Knology.

On April 6, enjoy DESPICABLE ME (2012) from Universal Pictures, an animated feature with voices by Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Kristin Wiig, directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of tireless, little yellow minions, we discover Gru planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon. Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad.

Rated PG; 95 minutes.

April 20 will feature THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) from Turner/MGM, starring Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, directed by Victor Fleming. Kansas girl Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked by a tornado into the magical land of Oz in this much loved musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel. Dorothy joins the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion on an adventure down the Yellow Brick Road to persuade the Wizard to help her find her way home. Rated G; 102 minutes.

The series will close on May 4 with GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) from Columbia Pictures, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, directed by Ivan Reitman. Unemployed parapsychologists set themselves up as "Ghostbusters" to rid New York of evil monstrous apparitions that are taking over the city. Sigourney Weaver costars as Dana Barrett, the cellist whose strange happenings in her apartment lead the ghostbusting team into the clutches of a punitory poltergeist. Rated PG; 105 minutes.

Admission is FREE. Gates open at 6 p.m. and movies begin at dusk at the Gazebo. Sponsored by Knology. Landmark Park is a 135-acre historical and natural science park located on U.S. Highway 431 North in Dothan, Ala. For more information, contact the park at 334-794-3452.

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