Breakfast and a Movie

Join us for breakfast catered by Kelly James (formerly of Sugar Cafe) and the classic Hitchcock movie Vertigo starring Jimmy Stewart. YOU MUST GET YOUR BREAKFAST TICKETS BY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 at the theater or at showclix (link below). If you want to see the movie only, it's $7 at the door.

Great food, great movies (and cartoons before each screening!), plus door prizes!!

Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) realizes he has vertigo, a condition resulting in a fear of heights, when a police officer is killed trying to rescue him from falling off a building. Scottie then retires from his position as a private investigator, only to be lured into another case by his old college friend, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore). Elster's wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), has been possessed by a spirit, and Elster wants Scottie to follow her. He hesitantly agrees, and thus begins the film's wordless montage as Scottie follows the beautiful yet enigmatic Madeleine through 1950s San Francisco (accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's hypnotic score). After saving her from suicide, Scottie begins to fall in love with her, and she appears to feel the same way. Here tragedy strikes, and each twist in the movie's second half changes our preconceptions about the characters and events. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Mystery/PG/1958/128 minutes.