Lunch and a Movie: Wonka (2023) In-Person
Bring your lunch (beverages provided) and finish up our summer movie musicals with two prequels to beloved stories! Before Charlie, before the chocolate factory, there was a young chocolatier with a dream...This prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory stars Timothee Chalamet as young Willy Wonka. Arriving in a city after years of study on candy-making, he soon loses what little money he has and ends up conscripted to virtual slave labor in a boarding house/laundry straight out of Dickens. He is determined to start making his own fantastical candies and become the greatest candy-maker in the world. But rival chocolatiers Prodnose, Fickelgruber, and Slugworth aren't too keen to have anyone else moving in on their turf. Willy is fighting upstream against the obstacles they set for him...but he finds help in a couple of surprising sources: a young orphan girl named Noodle (Calah Lane) and a strange creature named Lofty (Hugh Grant) who calls himself an "Oompa-Loompa." With these two allies on his side, Willy just might be able to make his dream come true...and give the gift of magical candy, as well as pure imagination, to others. No signups required. Popcorn generously donated by Regal Cinemas.