“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach.”

The Rio Theatre’s summer series of classics continues with Cool Hand Luke, featuring a career-high performance from one of our all-time, hands-down, always-and-forever movie favourites – Paul Newman.

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn’t play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard’s resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy’s unbreakable will. Luke’s bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison’s dreaded solitary confinement cell, “the box,” make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers. Also starring George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Harry Dean Stanton.

Tuesday, August 23
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm

Tickets $10 advance HERE | $12 door
*Minors OK in the balcony! (Please note this film is rated 18A.) Must be 19+ w/ID for bar service.
**Groupons and passes OK! Please redeem at the door.

COOL HAND LUKE (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967 / 1126 mins / PG) A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.