Happy Holidays to all...we have a couple of great movies lined up for your holiday viewing. Make us your celebration site for New Year’s Eve...we’ll be open both Friday and Saturday nights with the all-new West Side Story - critics are calling it “one of the best movies of the year.” Come join the fun!

“House of Gucci” – (R - language and some violence; 2 hours, 37 minutes) - Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga), an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and...eventually murder. Awards have already started rolling in for Lady Gaga as the New York Film Critics Circle just named her Best Actress for 2021. Gaga plays opposite Adam Driver, the one-time heir to the Gucci fortune, with Al Pacino, Jared Leto and Jeremy Irons rounding out the Gucci family members. Directed by Ridley Scott. Final screenings at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29 and Thursday, Dec. 30

“West Side Story” - (PG-13; 2 hours, 36 minutes) - Director Steven Spielberg has joined with writer Tony Kushner (“Angels in America”) to produce a new script, keeping all the familiar songs (music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by the late Stephen Sondheim) but setting the 1957 Broadway musical in a more realistic Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York City. Ansel Elgort and Rachel Ziegler star as Tony and Maria, the fated young teenagers who fall in love despite their different ethnic backgrounds, causing heartbreak among their families and violence in the streets of a once-peaceful neighborhood. Rita Moreno (“Anita” in the 1957 Broadway version) plays Valentina, a new role created for her by Kushner. Playing at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31; Saturday, Jan. 1; Wednesday, Jan. 5; Thursday, Jan. 6; and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 2.

“Kushner, Spielberg, Kaminski and the cast of soon-to-be superstars breathe new life into the work, while paying tribute to the grandeur of the original production. The result is nothing less than an incredibly thrilling piece of work.” – Tribune News Service

“Strangers On A Train” (1951) –  A Classic Film Series selection - (PG;1 hour 40 minutes) - Two strangers discover they each have someone in their life they wish were dead, and one comes up with the “brilliant” idea that they swap murders allowing each to get away with the crime since there is no connection between the victim and the killer. The unfolding of this disturbing plan, remarkable in itself, becomes a complex visual masterpiece under Hitchcock’s brilliant direction. Cast includes Farley Granger, Ruth Roman and Robert Walker. Thursday, Jan. 6, 2 p.m. (one show only).

Dr. Jon Cavallero, Chair of the Rhetoric, Film and Screen Studies Department at Bates College will provide a brief introductory video to the film. We hope that you will join us for this afternoon of doubles and double-crosses as only Alfred Hitchcock could create.

Coming in January:  “Being the Ricardos,” - Jan. 7 and “The Tragedy of MacBeth,” - Jan. 14.

Harbor Theater is open Wednesday through Sunday nightly at 7 with a matinee only on Sunday at 2 p.m. ADA-mandated Audio Descriptive (AD) and Closed Caption (CC) devices available for the visually and hearing-impaired. Inquire at the concession stand.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for members and children under 18. Tickets will be sold at the concession stand. Proof of vaccination is required; please present your required proof of vaccination at the ticket counter/concession stand.

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