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Drive-in suits Peachtree City to a tee


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/02/2008

There are traditional drive-ins and then there is the Peachtree City idea of what a drive-in means ... which in this case requires a golf cart.

This summer's first Golf Cart Drive-in Movie will be held Saturday with a free screening of "Transformers" on a 20-foot screen in the parking lot of Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center, 2443 Ga. 54 West.

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One of the movies featured during Peachtree City's Golf Cart Drive-in Movie will be 'Horton Hears a Who.'
 
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For those who don't have a golf cart (many families in Peachtree City do because it's a planned community with 100 miles of golf cart paths), one can be rented from various local hotels, Bulldog Supply or Peachtree City Golf Cars Inc.

Show time begins 10 minutes after sunset (around

9:05 p.m.). Free popcorn will be provided, and concessions will be available.

Future films: Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hears a Who" on July 26, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" on Aug. 9, "Casablanca" on Aug. 16 and "A Night at the Museum" on Aug. 30.

While movies are free, donations will be accepted for the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

THE 411: www.wyndhampeachtreeconferencecenter.com

UNDER THE STARS

Star 94's annual free Movies Under the Stars is under way with outdoor screenings in various parts of metro Atlanta. Movies begin at sundown (around

8:30 p.m.). Next up: "Spider-Man 3" on July 12 at Suwanee Town Center Park.

Among future films: "The Princess Bride" on July 19 at Duluth's Town Green; "Nim's Island" on July 26 at Powder Springs' Taylor Farm Park; "Horton Hears a Who!" on Aug. 2 at Kennesaw's Swift-Cantrell Park; "Juno" on Sept. 13 at Oglethorpe University's Academic Quad.

Films will be named later for Aug. 23 at Snellville's Briscoe Park and for Sept. 20 at McDonough's Henry County Sports Complex.

THE 411: www.star94.com

COMING SOON

The Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival at the Fox Theatre will screen two movies on July 13: "Enchanted" at 2 p.m. and "Ben-Hur" at 7 p.m. Some of the films set for August include "Sex and the City" (7:30 p.m. Aug. 7), "Iron Man" (7:30

p.m. Aug. 8), "Kung Fu Panda" (2 p.m. Aug. 10) and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

(7:30 p.m. Aug. 30). www.foxtheatre.org. ... Key Sunday Cinema Club's fall season will begin Sept. 28 at Landmark's Midtown Art Cinema with six more screenings on Oct. 12 and 26, Nov. 9 and 23, Dec. 14 and Jan. 4. www.keysundaycinemaclub.com/atlanta. ... The Starlight Six Drive-In Theaters' annual Drive-Invasion with bands, hot rods and classic cult movies will be Aug. 30-31. www.starlightdrivein.com. ... The Pan African Film Festival will run July 18-27 at the Woodruff Arts Center's Rich Theatre during the National Black Arts Festival. The opening film is expected to be Charles Burnett's "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation." www.nbaf.org. ... Under the banner "The Trick of Disaster," Eyedrum's Film Love series will screen Buster Keaton's "One Week" (1920) and Peter Fischli and David Weiss' "The Way Things Go" (1987) at 8 p.m. July 25. www.eyedrum.org.

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