Cooley High Playing in Millar Park Tonight

The second film in University City’s second annual Movies in the Parks series——will screen tonight in Millar Park.

It will be followed by a collection of four additional “Coming of Age” movies hosted at a variety of area parks for the general public between now and October.

Selected by a film committee of volunteer residents, the free series will conclude with a viewers’ choice showing of Super 8, Goonies or Stand by Me.

Residents’ votes will be collected online and at every preceding Movies in the Parks event. To view the complete schedule, as well as a link to the viewers’ choice poll for the series finale, click here. 

The screenings will begin shortly after sundown (approx. 8 p.m. in the spring or 9 p.m. during the summer months) and the full list of films and locations to be featured include:

• Cooley High – Saturday, May 19, in 
• How to Train Your Dragon – Wednesday, June 13, in 
• Akeelah & The Bee – Wednesday, July 11, in 
• Bend it Like Beckham – Wednesday, Aug. 8, in 
• To Kill A Mockingbird – Saturday, Sept. 15, in Fogerty Park
• Viewers’ choice – Saturday, Oct. 13, in Heman Park 

The inaugural 2011 Movies in the Parks series featured Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. Like last year, the 2012 Movies in the Parks series, is organized by a volunteer group of residents which is searching for sponsors for the film series.