The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
Christmas Vacation – Dec 18, 2021
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Past Event
The Birdcage – June 15
LITTLE CRAFT NIGHT: Thursday, June 5 | TRADITIONAL SCREENING: Sunday, June 15 | A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée’s conservative parents.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – June 16
95 YEARS OF THE LITTLE | Monday, June 16 at 7:30pm | Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.
Mocha Center: “The Watermelon Woman” – June 17
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts and member benefits do not apply to this event.
West Side Story – Dec 19, 2021
West Side Story with Post-Film Discussion. Sunday, December 19 at 1pm in Little Theatre 1. (Doors at 12:15pm / Regular Ticket Prices)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – June 18
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Wednesday, June 18 at 7:00pm | Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927. Nominated for 5 Oscars, including Best Actress and Best Actor.
Rochester International Jazz Festival – June 20-28, 2025
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
Love & Mercy – June 21-22
SPECIAL SCREENING | June 21 and 22 only | The popular Beach Boys/Brian Wilson biopic returns to The Little to honor Wilson (who died June 11).
The Last Tree – Nov 27, 2021
The Little Theatre’s Black Cinema Series, presented in partnership with the Rochester Association of Black Journalists (RABJ), screens both scripted and non-fiction films about the Black experience.
Gremlins – Dec 4, 2021
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Microcosmos – June 29
FAMILY FLICKS | Sunday, June 29 at 12pm | A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. Trust us, it’s super neat.
Son of the White Mare – June 30
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Monday, June 30 at 7:30pm | In this a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of the Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors’ lost kingdom.
Seven (4K) – July 7, 2025
30TH ANNIVERSARY | Seven on 7/7 at 7 | Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives in David Fincher’s “feel-bad” classic. New 4K remaster.
Basic Instinct – July 11
EROTIC THRILLERS | Friday, July 11 at 7:30pm | 4K restoration. In one of Verhoeven’s most provacative films, Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) becomes ensnared in a web of sex, lies, and violence, all leading back to Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a seductive, mysterious crime novelist. As the bodies pile up and hidden obsessions are revealed, Curran begins to doubt his investigatory instincts and give in to his baser ones.
Escape from the 21st Century – July 12, 13, 20
LIMITED RUN | July 12, 13, and 20 | Three friends discover that they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze in this bonkers sci-fi romp. In Mandarin with English subtitles.