SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our THE EVOLUTION OF ADAM SANDLER series! Friday, January 7, 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.

8pm HAPPY GILMORE (1996, dir by Dennis Dugan, Universal, 35mm, 92mns)

10pm BILLY MADISON (1995, dir by Tamra Davis, Universal, 35mm, 88mns)

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!

Part of our mission at Secret Movie Club is to look at cinema from 360 degrees. . .and never EVER be elitist or snobby. So we're doing an Evolution of Adam Sandler series to look at two of his earliest, most hilarious comedies and two of his more fascinating auteur director partnership complex roles.

Tonight, we go back to the beginning with two of the movies that made Adam Sandler a hero and beloved star to a whole generation of teenagers and young adults who were hungry for out and out comedy.

Happy Gilmore may be the rosetta stone for the Sandler man-child absurdist comedy. Sandler plays Gilmore, a failed NHL hockey player, who has to raise a whole bunch of money for his grandmother (in a nursing home run by a vicious Ben Stiller in a hilarious cameo) and discovers he has a killer golf swing (but his putting game sucks). A kind of Caddyshack meets Slapshot for the 1990's Gilmore helped put Sandler on the map.

We follow this up with Billy Madison another early Sandler comedy that found that sweet spot for Sandler to be both outrageous and sweet. When Billy's rich hotel owner father reveals that he paid for Billy's passing grades, Billy has to complete all 12 grades (2 weeks a grade) to prove to his father he has the chops to run the hotel business. Yes, high concept for sure. But what you could never expect are hilarious moments of near Dadaist absurdity like Billy's tendency to see a man-sized penguin whenever he gets drunk and a wonderful cameo from Chris Farley.

So join us to watch two great Sandler comedies on 35mm before we examine the other side of the coin on the next night with...

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.