Movies at Wilmette Theatre

Current and Upcoming Movies

To purchase tickets for movies or events showing on multiple dates, go to the ticket website, select the date, then select the time for the screening that you would like to attend.

NOW PLAYING Fri 2/17 - Thurs 2/23

Fri: 5:00, 7:10

Sat: 3:00, 5:00, 7:10

Sun: 7:10

Mon: 2:30

Tues: 3:00, 5:00, 7:10

Wed: 5:00, 7:10

CARNAGE

Rated R 79 minutes

Carnage is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences. An adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play "God of Carnage" by Yasmina Reza. After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the "victim" invite the parents of the "bully" over to work out their issues. A polite discussion of childrearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colors. None of them will escape the carnage. Starring Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, and Christopher Waltz. Directed by Roman Polanski.

Roger Ebert's 3 star review HERE

NOW PLAYING Fri 2/17 - Thurs 2/23

Fri: 4:30, 7:00

Sat-Tues: 2:15, 4:30, 7:00

Wed: 4:30, 7:00

Thurs: 4:30

Fri 2/24 - Thurs 3/1

Fri: 4:45, 7:10

Sat-Mon: 2:15, 4:45, 7:10

Tues-Thurs: 4:45, 7:10

THE ARTIST

Rated PG13 101 Minutes

WINNER - GOLDEN GLOBES! BEST PICTURE: MUSICAL OR COMEDY! Nominated for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress!

BEST ACTOR - 2011 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL : Jean Dujardin

10 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS! BEST PICTURE, BEST ACTOR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY!

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies. -

Read Roger Ebert's 4 Star Review HERE!

OPENS FRIDAY, FEB 24

2012 Oscar-Nominated Short Films

Animated short Films

Not Rated. 80 Minutes

Sunday/Dimanche – Patrick Doyon

Every Sunday, it's the same old routine! The train clatters through the village and almost shakes the pictures off the wall. In the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox. And of course later Grandma will get a visit and the animals will meet their fate.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg

Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

La Luna – Enrico Casaroasa

A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work.

A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe

When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we're left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.

Wild Life – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Calgary, 1909: an Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.

ANIMATED SHOWTIMES

Fri: 7:00

Sat: 5:00

Sun: 2:30, 7:00

Mon: 5:00

Tues: 7:00

Wed: 5:00

Thurs: 5:00

Live Action Short Films

Not Rated. 110 Minutes

Pentecost

Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane - English

When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish, he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo, or serve an extended ban from his life’s passion – football.

Raju

Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren - English/German

Director Max Zaehle, together with his Director of Photography Sin Huh, and wonderful actors Wotan Wilke Möhring and Julia Richter, succeed at making the moral dilemma faced by couples wishing to adopt emotionally palpable.

The Shore

Terry George and Oorlagh George – English/Gaelic

After 25 years in exile, Jim Mahon (Ciaran Hinds) returns to Ireland to show his American daughter Patty (Kerry Condon) his Belfast roots. But things don’t go as planned when she learns of a secret love triangle and a long lost best friend, Paddy (Conleth Hill). Their reconciliation leads to hilarious confusion. Directed by two time Oscar nominee Terry George, The Shore won Best Director and Best Actor at the Rhode Island Film Festival, and is nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award.

Time Freak

Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey – English

A neurotic inventor creates a time machine, only to get caught up travelling around yesterday.

Tuba Atlantic

Hallvar Witzø – Norwegian

Everybody is going to die one day. Oskar, 70, is going to die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago. Will he reach his brother, who he believes live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it’s too late?

LIVE ACTION SHOWTIMES

Fri: 4:30

Sat: 2:30, 7:00

Sun: 4:30

Mon: 2:30, 7:00

Tues: 4:30

Wed: 7:00

Thurs: No Showings

Opening Friday 4/20

THE DIARY OF PRESTON PLUMMER

On the day of his college graduation, Preston Plummer cannot think of a single thing he really loves. Adrift, Preston follows a beautiful but troubled young woman, Kate Cather, to a small island town where he begins to fall for her. Their relationship is soon threatened when he uncovers her family's dark past.

In The Diary of Preston Plummer, rising star Trevor Morgan (Mean Creek, Off the Black), delivers a thoughtful and intense performance as Preston Plummer, who struggles to understand the unexplained tension in Kate’s family.

Rumer Willis (Sorority Row) beautifully portrays conflicted ingénue Kate who is forced to confront her past as she falls in love for the first time.

Kate’s grandfather John is desperate to repair his relationship with Kate. This desperation is expertly depicted by Academy Award-nominated actor Robert Loggia, known for his heart-stopping characters in Scarface and Lost Highway.

Kate’s parents, Emily and Walter Cather, shrewdly played by Tony nominee Erin Dilly and Breaking Bad’s Christopher Cousins, attempt to reconcile their love for their daughter with their family’s difficult history.

Fri, Feb 24 at 9:30pm

Fri, March 23 at 9:30pm

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

Come see this classic cult film at the Wilmette Theatre! It's the full Rocky Horror Picture Show experience with audience participation and a live performance with the film by the Midnight Madness Rocky Horror Picture Show cast of Chicago! Dance Party, preshow, and more!

Under 12 not admitted.

Tickets $10

Buy Tickets - Friday, February 24 @ 9:30pm

Buy Tickets - Friday, March 23 @ 9:30pm

OPENS FRI MARCH 2nd!

RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA

2011 Films

This year marks the first collaboration with Emerging Pictures and the “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema” series, and the first time that audiences in cities across the country will have the opportunity to see these films in local theaters via Emerging Pictures’s digital delivery technology.

The Wilmette Theatre will be showing the following:

PATER
Directed by Alain Cavalier

105 min.

Synopsis: France’s most unpredictable filmmaker, Alain Cavalier, teams up with actor Vincent Lindon for a witty, semi-improvised look at men, power and politics, starring Cavalier himself as a fictional French President and Lindon as his newly appointed Prime Minister.

FRI 3/2 at 5:00pm - BUY TICKETS

SAT 3/3 at 2:15pm - BUY TICKETS

17 GIRLS (17 FILLES) - with LIVE Q&A

Directed by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin. 90 min
Based on a headline-grabbing incident in the U.S., sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s provocative debut feature follows the fallout in a sleepy French coastal town when a group of teenage girls all decide to become pregnant at the same time. A Strand Releasing film.

FRI 3/2 at 8:15pm - BUY TICKETS

MOON CHILD (LA PERMISSION DE MINUIT)
Directed by Crystel Fournier. 110 minutes

Romain is a "moon child," afflicted since birth by a rare genetic deficiency that makes him unable to stand exposure to daylight. Since infancy he has been cared for by David, a consultant dermatologist who is fascinated with his case and with whom he has developed an unusually close relationship. Now David has to leave, and doesn't know how to tell Romain. The day of the separation draws near... a new ordeal for them both.

MON 3/5 at 3:30pm - BUY TICKETS

THE SCREEN ILLUSION (L’ILLUSION COMIQUE)
Directed by and starring Mathieu Amalric. 77 minutes

Commissioned by La Comédie-Française, actor-director Mathieu Amalric’s wildly inventive update of Corneille’s popular 17th century tragicomedy follows a hotel concierge on the trail of a missing young man who seems to have left many a young female heart aflutter.

MON 3/5 at 7:00pm - BUY TICKETS

THE LAST SCREENING (LA DERNIÈRE SÉANCE)
Directed by Laurent Achard. 81 minutes

CINEMA PARADISO meets PSYCHO in a provocative genre film about the dutiful manager/projectionist of a repertory cinema in the French provinces...and the many secrets he holds.

TUES 3/6 at 7:30pm - BUY TICKETS

SMUGGLERS’ SONGS (LES CHANTS DE MANDRIN)
Directed by Rabah Ameur-ZaÏmeche. 97 minutes

The 18th century folk hero and bandit Louis Mandrin is the inspiration for this strikingly relevant period tale, tracing the efforts of Mandrin’s followers to distribute his songs and stories in the build-up to the French Revolution.

WED 3/7 at 8:30pm - BUY TICKETS

THE WELL-DIGGER’S DAUGHTER (LA FILLE DU PUISATIER)
Directed by Daniel Auteuil. 107 minutes

Daniel Auteuil, veteran of Marcel Pagnol adaptations JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON DES SOURCES, returns to Pagnol for his first work as a director, telling moving story of a hardscrabble well digger, his eldest daughter and her passion for the son of a local shopkeeper. A Kino Lorber release.

FRI 3/9 at 2:00pm - BUY TICKETS

FREE KIDS FILM SERIES

Sat 3/24 at 10AM

School of Rock

Rated PG-13. 110 Minutes

Jack Black plays Dewey Finn, axe-bearer for a bar-band determined to win a regional battle-of-the-bands competition. There's only one thing standing in the band’s way: Dewey. Kicked out of the band and jobless at home, Dewey intercepts a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned (Mike White), and the slacker finds himself standing in the front of an elite elementary school classroom. Clueless how to follow a lesson plan, Dewey instead preaches them the gospel of The Who, Led Zeppelin, and AC/DC. The kids are thrilled to learn something fun (for once!) and Dewey realizes his chance to get back at his old band: enter his class into the competition!

Rock House will host a live concert featuring their students before the film!

Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-rabbit

Rated G. 85 Minutes

“Anti-Pesto”, the humane pest-control company, has been raking in the dough as villagers tend their gardens for the Giant Vegetable Competition. But when a huge, mysterious creature only described as “the were-rabbit” begins attacking the town's vegetable gardens at night, Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery. After hearing his plan, the villagers are on his side… expect for one man.