The Lincoln Theatre is 100 years old this month! That's an entire century of showing movies for our Skagit community!
As part of our Centennial Celebration, we present four "watershed" films from the history of moving pictures -- films that had such tremendous impact that they changed cinema forever!
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April 21: Jaws
Steven Spielberg's Jaws was originally scheduled to come out in the prestigious holiday season, but its turbulent production delayed it until the next summer -- a time when, traditionally, studios would dump turkeys and bombs. When Jaws broke box-office records and became not just a smash hit but a bona fide nationwide sensation, it ushered in the era of the summer blockbuster and re-wrote the rules about how movies were made, marketed, and even experienced by audiences.
Still one of the best examples of film as cultural phenomenon, Jaws is always best when watched with a crowd -- you'll feel everyone around you stop breathing as the tension ratchets up...until suddenly, the screaming starts!
When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing that the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the town. Ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled ship captain Quint (Robert Shaw) offer to help Brody capture the killer beast, and the trio engage in an epic battle of man vs. nature.
"It is unlikely that anyone who sees this extraordinary new terror-adventure film, which was adapted from Peter Benchley's runaway best-seller of the same name, will ever again frolic in the ocean surf with quite the abandon of more carefree times." —John L. Wasserman, San Fransisco Chronicle, 1975
"Perhaps the most perfectly constructed horror story in our time." —Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter, 1975
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Bruce
United States | English | 1975 | Adventure, Horror | 124 minutes | PG
Film Prices
Lincoln Theatre Members get $3.00 off on the following prices when buying tickets at-the-door:
General: $12.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $11.00
Children 12 and under: $9.50
All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs