For the 16th straight year, Lyceum Cinemas and Rhinebeck Savings Bank, with the merchants of Hardscrabble Center on Route 9 in Red Hook, are sponsoring free Christmas movies for children and their families on Saturday, December 15.
Starting at 10:15 on that Saturday morning, the Lyceum will once again offer two films for attendees to choose from: “The Polar Express” and “The Nativity Story.”
Tom Hanks stars in “The Polar Express,” which is rated G and is an animated holiday classic based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg.
Rated PG, “The Nativity Story” is said to be a beautiful telling of one of the world’s most familiar stories, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes and Oscar Isaac.
Admission is free and a total of 800 tickets are available on a fist come, first serve basis, however tickets must be obtained in advance from any of the following merchants of Hardscrabble Center: Movies To Go, Teacher’s Closet, Holy Cow, F&M Printing, RMB Enterprises, Hana Sushi, Carol’s Cutting Edge, Subway, or at the Rhinebeck Savings Bank Red Hook branch.
Everyone who attends the movie is asked to bring a non-perishable food item for collection by the Dutchess County Community Action Agency office in Red Hook for distribution to needy families in the area.
Anyone who does not plan to attend a movie but wishes to donate food items may come down and do so anytime between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on December 15.
You may want to call ahead to the theater to make sure the weather hasn’t canceled this event. That number is 845-758-3311
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