Every holiday season, families worldwide find solace in each other – traveling great distances to share warm meals and memories with familiar company before settling in for a long winter’s nap. But home means something different to everyone. Join us this December for a series about the joy (and mayhem!) of a home over the holidays.
Films featured in this series:
Why is The Grinch such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and The Grinch's world upside down, inside out... and funny side up in her search for the true meaning of Christmas.
Buy TicketsThe third of five National Lampoon's vacation films, Christmas Vacation is now considered a holiday classic. Join us for this hilarious holiday hit as we celebrate its 35th anniversary at the Dundee.
Buy TicketsThe Muppets perform Charles Dickens’ much-loved tale in this hilarious musical reimagining of the Scrooge story. While Scrooge receives visits from spirits of three Christmases: past, present and future. They show him the error of his self-serving ways, but the miserable old man seems to be past any hope of redemption and happiness.
A year after the great Barbara Stanwyck burned up the screen as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity, Stanwyck would once again prove her amazing versatility in Warner Bros.' progressive film that turned gender roles on their heads.
In 1983 there was A Christmas Story, but years before that, Bob Clark made a different, slightly darker, holiday tale. Inspired by the urban legend "the babysitter and the man upstairs," Black Christmas is noted as one of the earliest slasher films. Enjoy this genuine classic at the Ruth as it celebrates it's 50th anniversary!
Buy TicketsGet in the holiday spirit with Satoshi Kon’s (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress) breathtaking anime marvel. Based loosely on the 1948 American film The 3 Godfathers, this tender tale of three people on the margins of society coming to the aid of a helpless abandoned infant is the inclusive, holiday heart warmer everyone can rejoice in.
Although it was nominated for five Academy Awards, It's a Wonderful Life was initally unsuccessful at the box office. When it fell into the public domain in 1974, there was a rediscovery of Capra's film as Networks began to stream it on TV for free. Today, the film is a holiday classic that is considered one of the greatest films of all time.
