A SCHEDULE CHANGE & UPCOMING FALL MOVES AT THE TOWN HALL THEATRE

THE MUPPETS plays 5 days, Friday to Tuesday, December 23rd to 27th… 2PM MATINEE ONLY CHRISTMAS EVE

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. Keep an eye out for the secret, signature, celebrity cameos.

• This 110 minute Family Comedy is Rated: PG for some mild rude humor.

Web Site: disney.com/muppets

HAPPY FEET TWO plays 2 days, Friday & Saturday, December 30th & 31st

The sequel to the Academy Award-winning animated smash hit, Happy Feet 2 returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica, reuniting us with the world’s most famous tap-dancing penguin, Mumble, the love of his life, Gloria and their old friends Ramon and Lovelace. Mumble and Gloria now have a son of their own, Erik, who is struggling to find his own particular talents in the Emperor Penguin world. But new dangers are threatening the penguin nation, and it’s going to take everyone working—and dancing—together to save them. Featuring the vocal talents of: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brad Pitt, Hank Azaria, Matt Damon, Alecia Moore (Pink) and EG Daily.
• This 100 minute Animated Adventure is Rated: PG for for some rude humor and mild peril.;

Web Site: www.happyfeetmovie.com

J. Edgar plays 2 days, Sunday & Monday, January 1st & 2nd

As the face of law enforcement in America for almost fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life. Under the direction of Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the title role of J. Edgar, a drama that explores the public and private life of one of the most powerful, controversial and enigmatic figures of the 20th century. Also starring: Judi Dench, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Ed Westwick                                                    

• This 137 minute Drama is Rated: R for brief strong language.

Web Site: www.jedgarmovie.com

HUGO plays 4 days, Friday to Monday, January 6th to 9th

Hugo tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key. Based on Brian Selznick's award winning and imaginative New York Times bestseller, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, this magical tale is a very well reviewed film Academy Award(R)-winner Martin Scorsese's first film shot in 3D. The cast includes: Sacha Baron Cohen, Chloe Moretz, Sir Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield.

• This 126 Minute Adventure film is Rated: PG for mild thematic material, some action/peril and smoking.

Web Site: www.HugoMovie.com

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN plays 4 days, Friday to Monday, January 13th to 16th

Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present The Adventures of Tintin directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, Defiance) as Tintin, the young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace, Defiance) as the nefarious Red Rackham. Based on the series of books “The Adventures of Tintin” by Hergé, the film is produced by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy.

Cast also includes: Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg and Toby Jones.

• This 107 Minute Action Adventure is Rated: PG for mild thematic material, some action/peril and smoking.

Web Site: www.tintin.com

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS plays 3 days, Saturday to Monday, January 21st to 23rd

Robert Downey Jr. returns as the brilliant sleuth and Jude Law is back as Dr. Watson in this atmospheric sequel to 2009's Sherlock Holmes. Holmes resorts to occult theories and more to defeat the plans of his nemesis, the evil Professor Moriarty. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder. Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen's club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince's murder makes her the killer's next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him. The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland.

• This 129 minute Action Adventure is Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some drug material.

Web Site: www.sherlockholmes2.com

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL plays 4 days, Friday to Monday, January 27th to 30th

Two-time Academy Award®-winner Brad Bird directs, with producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams, the action-packed spy adventure Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates “Ghost Protocol”. Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency’s name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on this mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know. Cast includes Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg.

• This 133 minute Spy Action Thriller is Rated: PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence.

Web Site: www.missionimpossible.com

WAR HORSE plays 4 days, Friday to Monday, February 3rd to 6th

From director Steven Spielberg comes War Horse, an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. War Horse is one of the great stories of friendship and war—a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history. Based in the 1982 children’s novel of the same name by Michael Morpurgo.

• This 146 minute Drama is Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of war violence.

Web Site: www.warhorsemovie.com