Movies in the park: COOL HAND LUKE

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Location: Rolling Road Show

This show is a part of the Movies in the Park Signature Series, Click to See More

See a list of all Movies in the Park screenings here!

Movies in the park is sponsored by The Shore Condos, Austin's WB, Marketing Matters and The Downtown Austin Neighborhood association

The Austin Parks Foundation presents FREE "Movies In The Park"

Austin Parks Foundation is proud to continue the Movies in the Park spring series. All movies will be shown at Republic Square Park (4th and Guadalupe St.) in downtown Austin. Bring your blankets and chairs and experience your favorite movies under the stars. Sponsored by The Shore with special assistance by the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

Good Stuff to Know:
All movies are free. Dogs, picnics, and lawn chairs are welcome. Alcoholic beverages are not permitted in the park. Refreshments will be available for purchase from Dog Almighty (hot dogs, veggie dogs, chili, popcorn and drinks) and Lifeworks Ben and Jerry's (mmmm, ice cream).

COOL HAND LUKE
D. Stuart Rosenberg 1967 126min. 35mm G

PLUS! Compete in an egg eating contest!

Paul Newman gives one of the defining performances of his career, and cemented his place as a beautiful-rebel screen icon playing the stubbornly tough and independent title character in Cool Hand Luke. And before he became familiar as a sidekick in 1970s disaster movies (Earthquake and the Airport movies), George Kennedy won an Oscar for playing Dragline, the brutal chain-gang boss who tries to beat loner Luke's cool out of him. It's a classic rebel-against-the-repressive-institution story in the line of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest or The Shawshank Redemption. Certain moments have become classics--particularly the hardboiled egg-eating contest, and the immortal line (drooled by Strother Martin, as a sadistic redneck prison officer), "What we have here is a failure to communicate." And don't forget, Luke is also the source of the oft-quoted driving ditty, "I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I have my plastic Jesus, right here on the dashboard of my car..." He is cool, all right. (Jim Emerson)

Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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