Welcome! The Hiway Theatre is ADA compliant with a wheel chair access ramp, a handicapped accessible restroom in the lobby, wheel chair seating in the theatre and assisted listening devices available at the concession stand upon request.
Concession stand and entrances to theater. Our concession offers the best in treats, fountain drinks, specialty drinks, and hot beverages...BTW: We use real butter to top off your popcorn!
The Hiway Theatre is a 501(c)3 non profit organization. Our mission is to preserve the historic Hiway Theatre and keep a local tradition alive for people passionate about film and the cinematic experience. Tracing our history back to 1913, the Hiway is unique among one-screen theaters as a member-supported, non profit, movie house dedicated to first-run film programming.You do not have to be a member to attend our shows and special programs. However, your tax-deductible support, in the form of donations and memberships, helps us to continue the programs you enjoy.
View of the theater from the projection booth. We have 320 seats, including four love seats!! Seat naming opportunities are available.
Tues. September 28, 7PM: Celebrate Adrienne Redd’s new book
with a free screening (for Hiway members) of Duck Soup (1933) on 35MM!
Our resident film discussion leader, and adjunct professor at Arcadia University, Adrienne Redd, has published a new book:Fallen Walls and Fallen Towers.
Adrienne will be here to sign copies of her book, on sale that night in the lobby. Complementary refreshments will be provided and admission is free for Hiway members.
Regular evening prices apply–Hiway members admitted free. No coupons, no passes.
Special One-Week Engagement: Starts Friday, September 3
Winter’s Bone, R 100 min.-Winner! Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
NOTE: LAST SHOWINGS ON THURSDAY SEPT. 9
Times for Sept. 7 through Sept. 9:
Tue through Thu: (3:00), 5:15, 7:30-last showing!
Times in ( ) are matinee price.
David Denby, of the New Yorker regarding Winter’s Bone[Warning: some spoilers; skip to synopsis below trailer if you dont want spoilers.]: “In the extraordinary independent film “Winter’s Bone,” the large Dolly clan lives off the grid. The movie is set in the Missouri Ozarks, in backcountry-way back, where the front yards are filled with dead cars and cracked toilets, and the children ride wooden horses and hunt squirrels. There are no telephones, much less cell phones or computers, and not a TV in sight. Poverty is not necessarily the issue: the Dollys, we can see, don’t particularly want to join the consumer society; they live among cast-off things because they’re used to them. Their indifference to the outside world turns hostile when they’re visited by “the law.” Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), the brilliant, determined seventeen-year-old who is the heroine of the movie, is a law unto herself. She takes care of her withdrawn mother and her kid brother and sister, and she treks across a colorless winter landscape, visiting relatives as she looks for her father, Jessup, who cooks methamphetamine for a living. Jessup was arrested and then released when he put up his house and land as bond. If he doesn’t appear in court, Ree and the rest of her immediate family will lose everything. The script-which the director, Debra Granik, and her collaborator, Anne Rosellini, adapted from the 2006 novel by Daniel Woodrell-doesn’t spell things out, but, as Ree travels around, we slowly get the point: all the Dollys, in one way or another, are involved in the meth trade. They guard secrets that they don’t wish Ree to know about or even ask about. Without making an actual appearance, meth is a character in the film, creating paranoia and corruption everywhere. “Winter’s Bone” is something new in movies: a “country-noir” thriller.
Synopsis:Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
Inspired by the true story of Tennessee recluse Felix “Bush” Breazeale, who planned his funeral while he was still alive, director Aaron Schneider’s dramatic period thriller stars Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, and Lewis Black. Few folks have spoken with Felix Bush (Duvall) since he disappeared into the Tennessee woods 40 years ago, and the ones who have don’t necessarily have the kindest things to say about him. Gruff, confrontational, and ill-tempered, Felix has been the source of many malicious rumors over the years. Some say he’s a cold-hearted killer and his penchant for walking into town with a shotgun, a wild beard, and threadbare clothes doesn’t exactly give the impression of a man who seeks to make friends. When Felix walks into Frank Quinn’s (Murray) funeral parlor and announces his intentions to throw himself a massive party before he passes away, word quickly spreads through town and anticipation starts to run high. Before long the big day has finally arrived, and Felix surprises everyone by revealing exactly why he shunned society to lead a life of solitude in the deep woods. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
