Jaws at the Silver Screen Drive-in

The Silver Screen Drive-in brings you “Jaws”, the film that stopped everyone going in the ocean. When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When the remains of a shark attack victim are found near town, new Sheriff Martin Brody knows he should close the beaches to swimmers but is stopped by the mayor. Brody backs down to his regret, and that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator.

The town is soon swamped with amateur shark hunters hoping to cash in on the reward after the boy's mother puts a bounty on the shark. But it’s a local fisherman, Quint, who has experience hunting sharks, who joins forces with Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute to find the Great White. As Brody says after their first encounter with the creature, they're going to need a bigger boat.

98% on Rotten Tomatoes

“… Steven Spielberg's Jaws has remained a benchmark in the art of delivering modern blockbuster thrills.” – Rotten Tomatoes 

“Perhaps the most perfectly constructed horror story in our time.” - Arthur Knight, Hollywood Reporter

“This is a suspense classic that leaves teeth-marks.” - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

“Spielberg…twists our guts with false alarms, giving us the real thing with heart-stopping suddenness.” - TIME Magazine

“It's no wonder a generation of holidaymakers still thinks twice before stepping into the water.” - Tom Huddleston, Time Out

Director: Steven Spielberg / Cast: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw/ Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller / Length: 2hr 4mins / Country: USA / Language: English / Rating: PG

Limited capacity. So, get your ticket at 250-368-9669 (Thursdays from 10am to 4 pm), or online at thebailey.ca! $12 per person.

Remember, get there an hour before to pick up your popcorn and get a good spot. Doors close 15 minutes before showtime – no late entries!

About the Silver Screen Drive-in

Trail & District Arts Council and The Royal Theatre have joined forces to imagine your new, favourite summer experience, the Silver Screen Drive-in. Running from June to September, films will screen Thursday through Saturday at sunset in the Waneta Plaza upper parking lot. Upcoming films will include those event movies that you’ve missed seeing on a big screen, retro classics from comedy to horror, as well as those Sunday Cinema favourites been as well as Oscar winning independent films and documentaries. Plus, live performances of music, theatre, dance and more!

The Silver Screen Drive-in is sponsored by Bounce Radio, Century 21, Kootenay Savings Credit Union, Teck Metals Ltd. and Tourism Rossland, and made possible thanks to support from Waneta Plaza and funding from the Government of British Columbia, BC Arts Council, and Canadian Heritage.

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