A special event at the Athena Grand might have people phoning home to invite friends to see a movie.
The theater will screen E.T. The Extra Terrestrial on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Admission is $12.50.
E.T. is a science-fiction film that follows the story of a young boy who befriends an alien. The boy hides the alien from his mother and tries to get it back to its home planet.
The film was released in the United States on June 11, 1982, and celebrated its 35th anniversary this year. E.T. was directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg. The film grossed more than $400 million dollars.
E.T. was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won four, including Best Sound, Best Music and Original Score.
The Athena Grand had a screening of E.T. on Sunday and about 25 people attended, Rick Frame, owner of the Athena Grand, said. That is a good attendance for the theater’s special events, Frame added.
“It’s really one of those movies that does stand the tests of time,” he said. “It’s a feel-good movie, a happy ending movie. It’s easy for movies like that to hold up because of just feeling good when you go to see it.”
Stephanie Batsch, a freshman studying education, would be interested in seeing E.T. on the big screen.
“It’s cool to see films from different times,” she said.
Mac Kremer, a sophomore studying business economics, always thought the film was cool. He said it is important for people to revisit films people saw when they were children.
“It has a level of nostalgia there to go back and see films you have seen before,” Kremer said.
The special showings of remastered movies from years ago tend to draw an older crowd of people, some of whom remember watching it when they were children, Frame said.
“Going to the movies is an experience itself versus seeing it at home,” Frame said. “People that are true movie-goers would rather watch it here than at home anyway.”
