Thelma & Louise
Doors: 6:00pm, Show: 7:00pm
4140 Broadway, NY, NY, 10033
Ordering Closed
Date: Monday, August 26th | Doors: 6:00pm | Screening: 7:00pm | $5 Tickets
This 1991 pop-culture landmark follows the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong—leading them on a high-speed southwestern odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their own terms. Starring Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, and Harvey Keitel. Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Callie Khouri. The movie runtime is 2 hours and 10 minutes, Rated R, and will be screened on DCP.
We continue to honor our past as a vaudeville house with live entertainment before or after the main feature on the big screen. This screening of Thelma & Louise will include a special pre-show introduction by Broadway's Emma Pittman (The Outsiders, Chicago) and Katie LaDuca (Back to the Future)!
Thelma & Louise continues the Movies at the Palace Season of Friendship. We chose that theme after asking ourselves what we need most to get through 2024. Our supporters and fans helped us select the movies in the series, including:
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Thelma & Louise (1991): August 26
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The Breakfast Club (1985): Date TBD
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): Date TBD
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Little Women (2019): Date TBD
Please note: The Season of Friendship is a different series than Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is not scheduled to be at this screening.
UNITED PALACE HISTORY
The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theatre and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theatres in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theatre ended in April 1969 with a screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres (“In the Heights” and “Halftime” as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics (“It’s A Wonderful Life”), to community favorites (the documentary “Mad Hot Ballroom” about local school children winning a citywide dance contest).
Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs.
One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of “The Godfather,” described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn’t get any better.”