Downtown Lafayette's
Movies in the Parc presented by Cox and Let’s Be Totally Clear features
family friendly and smoke-free movie events and crowd favorites under the
stars! This year, the Downtown series brings back the Drive-In to Lafayette!
This Spring, bring your blankets and chairs, ride your bike or load up the
car and park for a one-of-a-kind movie experience that you can only find
Downtown! The Spring Movies in the Parc series kicks off May 18th
with "Back to the Future” showing at the Downtown Drive-In, located in the
parking lot at 725 Jefferson Street. Gates open at 6pm and car spots will be
first come, first park.
The Spring series
continues at Parc International with "The Neverending Story” on May 25th
and "Despicable Me” on June 1st.
The Fall series will feature "Raiders of the Lost Ark” on October 12th
and "Where the Wild Things Are” on October 19th. The series will
close with another Downtown Drive-In featuring the 1968 version of "Night of
the Living Dead” on October 26th.
Admission is still just $2
and free for children 5 and under. Food and beverages will be available
on-site for purchase!
Parking is available at
Parc-Auto du Centreville at Polk and Vermilion Streets and remember metered
spots are free on Saturdays Downtown!
Movies in the Parc is also made possible by our contributing sponsors The
Independent Weekly and 99.9 KTDY.
2013
Spring Series:
May 18 – Back to the Future
Downtown Drive-In, Parking Lot, 725 Jefferson Street | Gates
open at 6pm
Much like Marty McFly,
we’ll be leaving the modern world for a trip Back to the Future to a time of
Drive-In movies on May 18th in Downtown Lafayette! Marty McFly, a typical
American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a
plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by slightly mad
scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time,
Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love - so
he can get back to the future.
May
25 – The Neverending Story
Parc
International, 200 Garfield Street | Gates open at 6pm
Bastian
is a young boy who lives a dreary life being tormented by school bullies. On
one such occasion he escapes into a book shop where the old proprietor
reveals an ancient story-book to him, which he is warned can be dangerous.
Shortly after, he "borrows" the book and begins to read it in the
school attic where he is drawn into the mythical land of Fantasia, which
desperately needs a hero to save it from destruction.
June
1 – Despicable Me
Parc
International, 200 Garfield Street | Gates open at 6pm
In
a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with
flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to
the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded
by a small army of minions, we discover Gru, planning the biggest heist in
the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon. (Yes, 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 little
orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever
seen: a potential Dad. The world's greatest villain has just met his greatest
challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.
2013
Fall Series:
October
12 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Parc
International, 200 Garfield Street
The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named
Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so,
miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which
can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places
such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight
his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.
October 19 – Where the
Wild Things Are
Parc International, 200
Garfield Street
A
young boy named Max has an active imagination, and he will throw fits if
others don't go along with what he wants. Max - following an incident with
Claire (his sister) and her friends, and following a tantrum which he throws
as a result of his Mother paying more attention to her boyfriend than to him
- runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only
runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world,
an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including one named Carol
who is much like Max himself in temperament. Instead of eating Max like they
normally would with creatures of his type, the wild things befriend Max after
he proclaims himself a king who can magically solve all their problems.
October 26 – Night of the
Living Dead (1968)
Downtown Drive-In, Parking Lot, 725 Jefferson Street
Get your Zombie on! The
same day as the Lafayette Science Museum’s Zombie Walk, stay in character and
join us for the Downtown Drive-In featuring Night of the Living Dead! The radiation from a
fallen satellite might have caused the recently deceased to rise from the
grave and seek the living to use as food. This is the situation that a group
of people penned up in an old farmhouse must deal with.
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