![]() Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in (2014) Director April Wright’s energetic, thoughtful passion project defies simple nostalgia in its scope and is, precisely as advertised, the one movie to see that encompasses the history and unique experience of the drive-in movie. The recreation of the drive-in movie ambience is brilliant, and we’re treated to a hilarious dubbed-English Star Crash-type sci-fi parody playing on the screen as the homemade spacecraft wreaks havoc on the tower and in the snack bar. Our young heroes, flying around their town in a makeshift spaceship crafted from an old Tilt-a-Whirl car, buzz the local drive-in on a Saturday night. You can read my review of the picture right here.Įxplorers (1985) My all-time favorite drive-in movie-within-a-movie takes place in this sharp Joe Dante picture. A cautionary bit of social satire that will make your own drive-in having been appropriated as a daytime flea market seem a whole lot less annoying.ĭirector Rod Amateau’s American Graffiti-inspired comedy isn’t a particularly great movie, but it does takes place entirely at a Texas drive-in movie theater and as such serves as a nifty piece of small-town ozoner anthropology. and A (VW) Bug’s Life.ĭead-end Drive-in (1986) A post- Mad Max Australian thriller in which a young man takes his girlfriend to a date at a drive-in movie only to discover it’s been converted into a prison camp for murderous gangs. And it’s a very effective moment of movie magic too-the scene wasn’t filmed at a drive-in at all, but instead a converted softball field in Alberta, Canada.Ĭars (2006) During the end credits, the cars are shown at the drive-in cinema enjoying parodies of earlier Pixar productions recast with cars in the main roles: Toy Car Story, Monster Trucks, Inc. The Pickwick, due to its proximity to the local movie studios, hosted many movie premieres, most famously that of Blazing Saddles in 1974, for which everyone in attendance was on horseback.īrokeback Mountain (2005) In one scene after his return from Brokeback Mountain, Ennis (Heath Ledger) takes his wife Alma (Michelle Williams) on a date to a drive-in movie theater, which is lovingly (if briefly) recreated in the film. 11 DRIVE-IN MOVIE MOVIES (in alphabetical order):īlue Thunder (1983) One key sequence in this thriller about a high-tech urban surveillance helicopter is staged (during the daylight hours) at the Pickwick Drive-in in Burbank, California, which was razed in 1990. ![]()
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