SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our LOVE! ROMANCE! EMOTION! series! Friday, February 18, 2022

LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021

*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate. We’ll have staff to help guide/park you.

730pm FOUR WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL (1994, written by Richard Curtis dir by Mike Newell, Park Circus, 115mns, 35mm)

10pm ABOUT A BOY (2002, dir by Chris and Paul Weitz, Universal, 118mns, 35mm)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***ALL AUDIENCE will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. PLEASE HAVE YOUR VIRTUAL OR PHYSICAL VACCINATION CARD READY BEFORE ENTERING THE THEATER. If you have an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level COVID test within 3 days of the screening.

***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.

***EVERYONE WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING CONCESSIONS IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS.

HOW TO:

1)PLEASE BRING AND WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING INSIDE THE THEATER AS A SAFETY PRECAUTION.

2)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS OR MOVIE MERCHANDISE you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions & merchandise at our tables in our lobby prior to the screening.

We will be able to sell concessions & merchandise at the theater. But it will make everything much quicker and easier if you pre-order!

3)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer your complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. Let’s all do our part to beat this thing so we can go back to the complete movie going experience!

We tie up loose ends on our mini-Hugh Grant series within our bigger LOVE! ROMANCE! EMOTION! series with two mirror images of the Hugh Grant Persona.

First up is the Richard Curtis penned romcom supernova Four Weddings & A Funeral that essentially launched a dozen plus English rom-com hits and Hugh Grant's career from actor to superstar. Of course the reason for this is that it's so damned enjoyable. Grant plays Charles who, with his group of friends, attends. . .you guessed it. . .Four Weddings and A Funeral throughout the movie. Along the way he meets American Carrie (Andie MacDowell) but writer Curtis cleverly subverts our expectations with where and how their relationship goes. Full of that amazing Curtis formula-hilarious laughs, real romance, and surprising emotion along with great Mike Newell direction and tremendous performances across the board from the ensemble, if you're looking for the feel-good movie you need for your Valentine's month date, here it is.

We follow this up with an undersung Hugh Grant rom-com masterpiece About a Boy. Here Grant begins to make the much needed transition from affable matinee idol to cad and self-involved narcissist. Grant was always an actor who enjoyed playing a variety of roles in a variety of movies before he got typecast as the "love interest lead". Movies like About a Boy, based on the Nick Hornby novel, allowed him to take his reputation as an actor back. Grant plays Will, a proudly self-involved single man in his 30's who wants absolutely no responsibility whatsoever. But when his plan to pretend to be a single father to sleep with single mothers backfires, Will finds himself bonding with Marcus, a young boy, with an emotionally erratic mother (the always amazing Toni Collette).

Like High Fidelity did for John Cusack, About a Boy allows Hugh Grant to be human and complicated. Also like High Fidelity, it's a wildly enjoyable and funny movie.

So come enjoy a twopack of Hugh Grant for Valentine's month! On 35mm.

Best always,

Craig Hammill

35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR IN-DOOR THEATER SCREENINGS

REFUNDS:

We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.

However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write us at: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening.

HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:

We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.

We will have a staff member on duty to monitor all cars parked in the street-art alleyway at our entrance.

There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.

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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:

You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, concerns, thoughts, recommendations.