Arts & Entertainment

'Bend It Like Beckham' Plays Tonight at Flynn Park

The August movie in the park begins at sunset.

The Olympics are still raging in London and the U.S. . What better time to watch a soccer movie set in London?

is the fifth film in University City's second annual Movies in the Parks series. It will be shown at sunset tonight at . 

University City’s second annual Movies in the Parks series opened April 21 with a screening of one of the most influential of all teen films, American Graffiti.

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Selected by a film committee of volunteer residents, the free series will conclude with a viewers’ choice showing of either 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

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

  • Bend it Like Beckham – Wednesday, Aug. 8, in 
  • To Kill A Mockingbird – Saturday, Sept. 15, in
  • Viewers’ choice – Saturday, Oct. 13, in

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.


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