Film Series

Rated R; 135min; Director:Richard Curtis (2003)
Alamo Website:  The super swoony girlie night holiday tradition returns! Forget about A CHRISTMAS STORY or Charlie Brown. Heck, forget about Baby Jesus! LOVE ACTUALLY is basically the whole reason I celebrate Christmas. For without this masterpiece of a romantic comedy, there would be no love in this cold, cruel world. Plus, we'd all be stuck singing "Jingle Bells" instead of everyone's favorite carol, "Christmas Is All Around." I challenge you to find one other movie that combines Colin Firth, an adorable little boy with a dead mom, the British Prime Minister, the porn industry, Mr. Bean, a washed up rock star and a kid in an octopus costume into something that makes me cry tears of shimmering, golden joy into my mug of spiced wine.

This film TROUNCES all other holiday films in the "squee" category. I mean, ask me how many times I've rewound and watched the scene when Mark shows up at Juliet's door and shows her a sign that says, "To me, you are perfect." Because OMG YES YES!!!! Join us for this very special holiday edition of Girlie Night, where you're allowed (and expected) to squeal, sigh and grab your neighbor's arm when Colin Firth finally proposes to that Portuguese lady. (Sarah Pitre)

Rated R; 135min; Director:Richard Curtis (2003)
Alamo Website:  The super swoony girlie night holiday tradition returns! Forget about A CHRISTMAS STORY or Charlie Brown. Heck, forget about Baby Jesus! LOVE ACTUALLY is basically the whole reason I celebrate Christmas. For without this masterpiece of a romantic comedy, there would be no love in this cold, cruel world. Plus, we'd all be stuck singing "Jingle Bells" instead of everyone's favorite carol, "Christmas Is All Around." I challenge you to find one other movie that combines Colin Firth, an adorable little boy with a dead mom, the British Prime Minister, the porn industry, Mr. Bean, a washed up rock star and a kid in an octopus costume into something that makes me cry tears of shimmering, golden joy into my mug of spiced wine.

This film TROUNCES all other holiday films in the "squee" category. I mean, ask me how many times I've rewound and watched the scene when Mark shows up at Juliet's door and shows her a sign that says, "To me, you are perfect." Because OMG YES YES!!!! Join us for this very special holiday edition of Girlie Night, where you're allowed (and expected) to squeal, sigh and grab your neighbor's arm when Colin Firth finally proposes to that Portuguese lady. (Sarah Pitre)

Alamo Website:  Time to pull out the long red winter pajamas with the feet attached! And for the Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa edition of our Cartoon Cereal Party pursuits, we'll be putting on a special HOLIDAY edition just for you!! Your eyes will devour Santastic episodes of your favorite cartoons, plus see some deeply bizarre holiday surprises that you never imagined existed (SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY, anyone?)! Forget that you grew up and got a job and started sleeping through Saturday mornings...the glory days are BACK! Because we're gonna bring you a 2.5 hour attack from the wildest cartoons in the TV Netherworld! Just bring yourselves, and if you have a special spoon or stuffed animal you can bring that too. Pajamas are optional. Let me rephrase that: please wear clothes, even if you choose not to wear pajamas. Regardless, both the cartoons and the endless supply of cereal will unleash your powers of winter wonderlanding, sugar-eating and FUN-HAVING until you reach a new level of superhuman powertimes!!!

Rated Unknown; 94min; Director:Nicholaus Goossen (2006)
Alamo Website:  We've had TONS of requests for this 2006 stoner classic ever since we first started doing Quote-Alongs over at the Colorado Street Alamo location. Most of those requests came from people with really red eyes who smelled like they'd just come from a Phish concert, so we were sure this would be the perfect Quote-Along for this year's High for the Holidays fun. Here's just a bit of the amazing synopsis for this film from Adam Sandler's production company, in case you missed its three day long theatrical release:

Alex (ALLEN COVERT) has one sweet life. After walking away from his death by accounting job, he's now a video game tester at Brainasium, the company responsible for the worldwide gaming phenom of... Alex (ALLEN COVERT) has one sweet life. After walking away from his death by accounting job, he's now a video game tester at Brainasium, the company responsible for the worldwide gaming phenom of "Eternal Death Slayer." At 35, he may be the oldest tester in the business (he's called "Gray Bush" by his co-workers), but he's also the best. But when his roommate fails to pay the rent for six months because he's spent every last cent at Madame Wu's Filipino Palace ("They're not hookers, they're massage therapists!"), Alex unfortunately finds himself on the street. His friendly dealer Dante (PETER DANTE) can't let Alex crash because he has a business to run and besides, the guard lion will be arriving any day. His friend Jeff (NICK SWARDSON) agrees to put him up, until that unfortunate accident involving Alex and the action figure in the bathroom…which Jeff's mom happens to, well, catch. Alex's last resort is to move in with three hot babes—that's what he tells his friends, at any rate. In actuality, the 35-year-old finds himself living with his sweet and loving 80-year-old grandma Lilly (DORIS ROBERTS), along with her two roommates: the "been there, done that repeatedly" octogenarian Grace (SHIRLEY JONES) and the not-quite-all-there, overly medicated Bea (SHIRLEY KNIGHT).

Rated PG; 97min; Director:Jon Favreau (2003)
Alamo Website:  Fun and tasty prizes provided by Flipnotics Coffeespace Cafe'! Last year we offered the ELF Quote-Along as an event purely available to private parties, and it almost killed us. This show was soo much fun, from the spaghetti and syrup eating contest at the open of it to the mandatory group tickle fight at the end, and it didn't feel very Christmasy of us to not share it with everyone. So this year, Christmas comes early, and we're all going to spread that Christmas cheer the best way we know how - by singing and quoting loud for all to hear. And don't worry, if you can quote alone, then you can quote around other people. There's really no difference!

Oh man, just writing out a paragraph with jarbled versions of Buddy's quotes from this movie is getting me all sorts of excited. Will Ferrell's take on a North Pole elf trying to figure out Manhattan just might be the funniest he's ever been, and this is certainly the best holiday movie from the past ten years. To celebrate, we'll have jingle bells for everyone, bubbles for a few key scenes, and a present for whoever can eat their spaghetti the fastest!

"Buddy the elf, what's your favorite color?" That's how I'm answering my phone all through December. (Henri Mazza)

Rated PG; 97min; Director:Jon Favreau (2003)
Alamo Website:  Fun and tasty prizes provided by Flipnotics Coffeespace Cafe'! Last year we offered the ELF Quote-Along as an event purely available to private parties, and it almost killed us. This show was soo much fun, from the spaghetti and syrup eating contest at the open of it to the mandatory group tickle fight at the end, and it didn't feel very Christmasy of us to not share it with everyone. So this year, Christmas comes early, and we're all going to spread that Christmas cheer the best way we know how - by singing and quoting loud for all to hear. And don't worry, if you can quote alone, then you can quote around other people. There's really no difference!

Oh man, just writing out a paragraph with jarbled versions of Buddy's quotes from this movie is getting me all sorts of excited. Will Ferrell's take on a North Pole elf trying to figure out Manhattan just might be the funniest he's ever been, and this is certainly the best holiday movie from the past ten years. To celebrate, we'll have jingle bells for everyone, bubbles for a few key scenes, and a present for whoever can eat their spaghetti the fastest!

"Buddy the elf, what's your favorite color?" That's how I'm answering my phone all through December. (Henri Mazza)

Rated PG; 97min; Director:Jon Favreau (2003)
Alamo Website:  Fun and tasty prizes provided by Flipnotics Coffeespace Cafe'! Last year we offered the ELF Quote-Along as an event purely available to private parties, and it almost killed us. This show was soo much fun, from the spaghetti and syrup eating contest at the open of it to the mandatory group tickle fight at the end, and it didn't feel very Christmasy of us to not share it with everyone. So this year, Christmas comes early, and we're all going to spread that Christmas cheer the best way we know how - by singing and quoting loud for all to hear. And don't worry, if you can quote alone, then you can quote around other people. There's really no difference!

Oh man, just writing out a paragraph with jarbled versions of Buddy's quotes from this movie is getting me all sorts of excited. Will Ferrell's take on a North Pole elf trying to figure out Manhattan just might be the funniest he's ever been, and this is certainly the best holiday movie from the past ten years. To celebrate, we'll have jingle bells for everyone, bubbles for a few key scenes, and a present for whoever can eat their spaghetti the fastest!

"Buddy the elf, what's your favorite color?" That's how I'm answering my phone all through December. (Henri Mazza)

Rated R; 103min; Director:Michael Lehmann (1988
Alamo Website: Before Diablo Cody made talking in a teenage lingo mean dropping in dated Internet references as often as you can, Daniel Waters perfected the art of bitchy high school teen speak dialog in his screenplay for HEATHERS. "What's your damage?" "Where's your urge to purge?" This is the movie that established the teen black comedy as the ultimate way of viewing high school, and way before Lindsay Lohan learned about a new way to play through the social politics of the clique system in MEAN GIRLS, Christian Slater taught Winona Ryder that there are much more...physical ways of handling queen bees. This movie may not be as chock full of one-liners as some of the Mel Brooks types of comedies we've done as Quote-Alongs in the past, but the magic of hearing everyone say, "Lick it up, baby. Lick. It. Up," all in unison should be magical enough. And if that line alone isn't enough, "I love my dead gay son!" will clearly make this show worthy of surviving our adolescence for.

We'll start the show with a liquid draino drinking contest, have some puke available should you need to pay anyone back for getting you into a Remington party, and fill the night with other props and surprises as well! Teenage suicide: don't do it. (Henri Mazza)

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Rated PG; 93min; Director:Steve Barron
Alamo Website:  The world's most beloved reptiles are in full effect in the greatest '80s movie of the '90s! Four ordinary turtles are exposed to The Ooze (a.k.a. toxic waste!) and, with the help of enormous Buddhist rat Master Splinter, grow into an unstoppable force of martial arts justice! When Splinter is kidnapped by his loathsome nemesis The Shredder, the turtles enlist the aid of TV reporter April O'Neil and wise-cracking vigilante maniac Casey Jones to rescue their number one rodent from the venomous karate clan. And you'd better believe that Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Raphael are ready to kick as much shell as necessary in the process.

Easily the most pulse-pounding film ever made about sewer-dwelling mutants, TMNT wowed kids of all nations. But it also taught them a very important lesson; to respect nature's perfect food: PIZZA!! So, in true radical ninja party fashion, the Alamo Drafthouse is pleased to present ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT PIZZA for this screening! So bring your little dudes, do a flying roundhouse into your seats and chow down! COWABUNGA!!!

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Rated PG-13; 640min; Director:Peter Jackson
Alamo Website:  Each of the seven(!) courses is served during each Hobbit meal time! By the time the King (spoiler alert!) ascends to his rightful throne, you too are ready to go back to the Shire and be greeted as a hero by your loved ones who didn't think you would make it all the way...and then pass out. Epic

DISCLAIMER: The first two films will be the "director's cut" versions in 35mm, while the third will be the original theatrical release in 35mm. The "director's cut" of the third film was only released in DVD format, but the story goes that by the third film, Jackson had almost complete creative control... so, the theatrical cut is really like a director's cut. Based on this, we've decided to go 35mm all the way through, because it's just too pretty to pass up!