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Rosslyn Film Fest Theme: Summer School

Rosslyn Outdoor Film Festival (file photo)Rosslyn’s annual outdoor film festival starts in two months. This year’s theme: “Summer School.”

The movies will run on Friday nights from May 17 to August 30, in Rosslyn’s Gateway Park (1300 Lee Highway). This summer’s festival features 16 well-known high school movies, starting with the 1985 classic The Breakfast Club.

This year’s scheduled is as follows.

  • May 17: The Breakfast Club (1985)
  • May 24: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
  • May 31: Clueless (1995)
  • June 7: Risky Business (1983)
  • June 14: Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
  • June 21: Easy A (2010)
  • June 28: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
  • July 5: Bring It On (2000)
  • July 12: Pretty in Pink (1986)
  • July 19: She’s All That (1999)
  • July 26: Fame (1980)
  • August 2: Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
  • August 9: Sixteen Candles (1984)
  • August 16: High School Musical 3 (2006)
  • August 23: American Graffiti (1973)
  • August 30: Grease (1978)

While most movie-goers walk or take Metro, parking is available in the nearby Atlantic Parking Garage, next to the Continental on N. Moore Street, for $3.

The theme of last year’s Rosslyn film fest was “Election Night.”

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