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Wet Hot American Summer
March 12, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
"The title of this inventive absurdist comedy is meant to mislead — it's not a sex movie but a parody, and the loose feel is part of its genius. On the final day of summer camp in Maine in 1981, the counselors and the campers — adolescents all — are desperate to make the most of the attachments they've formed or to form some at the last minute. The camp director nervously pursues a local astrophysicist with whom she has nothing in common, a distraught art teacher becomes a class project for some precocious campers, and a lovesick counselor spends a not entirely platonic day with someone else's girlfriend" - Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
This film is being screened as part of Maine in the Movies. To celebrate Maine’s bicentennial, the Maine Film Center and 19 other arts and education organizations and independent cinemas have joined together to present from March 5-15, 2020, in 17 cities, this festival of 35 films that are set in Maine.
Three of these films will be shown in Waterville:
- Leave Her to Heaven at 7:00 PM Thursday, March 5, 2020 at the Waterville Opera House,
- Wet Hot American Summer at 7:00 PM Thursday, March 12, 2020 at Railroad Square, and
- Empire Falls at 1:00 PM Sunday, March 15, 2020 at Railroad Square.