Pulp Fiction
Bay Theatre
Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
Rating & Run Time: (R) 2 hours and 29 minutes
Release Year: 1994
The Rock Radio is back at The Bay, this time enjoying one of the most electric visions of violence and vengeance ever committed to the big screen. Quentin Tarantino expertly directs (and acts alongside) a sprawling cast of Los Angeles’ most depraved and lovable psychos. With unmatched cinematic style and a caustic yet charming ear for rambling dialogue, this is the film that firmly established one of America’s most beloved contemporary film artists as a powerful independent voice and master of his craft.
Special Event: The Cigarette Surfboard
Sunday, April 27 — ONE SHOWING ONLY TICKETSBUY TICKETS HERE
Director(s): Ben Judkins
Rating & Run Time: (NR) 1 hour and 33 minutes
Join us for this special presentation from the SLO International Film Festival! Ben Judkins’ documentary takes viewers around the world (via a surfboard built from 10,000 littered cigarette butts) to learn about the importance of the ocean and what an inspiring cast of professional surfers are doing to protect it. The film is solution-driven with an optimistic outlook for the future of our planet – it opens up the dialogue for audiences to explore what anyone can do to take action in their personal lives and local communities. Surfing is the medium, but the message is universal. Followed by a Q&A with the director after the show.
Morro Bay High School Film Festival
Bay Theatre
Join us and the student filmmakers of Morro Bay High School once again for their fabulous showcase of this year’s original works! From cartoons and comedies to action and horror shorts, our local filmmakers-of-tomorrow show their stuff and compete for prizes in this exciting and dynamic selection of shorts. All ticket proceeds benefit Morro Bay High School.
Across America
Across America
Monday, May 5 — ONE SHOWING ONLY
Rating & Run Time: (NR) 25 min. & 35 min.
Release Year: 2025 & 2003
The spirit of adventure is thriving at the Bay Theatre with two real-life stories of taking to the open road on one’s own terms. Two similar stories of a skateboarder making their intrepid way across the farm roads and lonely highways of America, one from local legend and filmmaker, Jack Smith, about his 2003 push to raise awareness for Lowe Syndrome, and another about Chad Caruso’s push from Venice Beach to Virginia Beach to raise awareness for mental health. Never underestimate the power of the push!
Lawrence of Arabia
Bay Theatre
Director: David Lean
Rating & Run Time: (PG) 3 hours and 47 minutes
Release Year: 1962 Cast: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Raines, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole
David Lean’s epic masterpiece of one man against all odds is coming to our screen for one show only! See Peter O’Toole as the titular unlikely hero, whose blind faith in himself and seemingly reckless abandon in the face of insurmountable odds steers him time and again on his complicated path to glory, or something like it. A testament to the power of following one’s own sense of what’s right in small moments that lead to tremendous results.
Disaster at Devil’s Jaw
Bay Theatre
Director(s): Frank Oz
Rating & Run Time: (NR) 1 hour and 22 minutes
Release Year: 2023
Join us with the Morro Bay Maritime Museum for this special presentation of the riveting documentary account of the largest peacetime Naval disaster in history! Devil’s Jaw is the name of a treacherous pass of the Pacific between Point Conception and the Channel Islands, and when a fleet of Navy destroyers attempted a speed run from San Fransisco to San Diego in September of 1923, a string of spooky coincidences and unlucky decisions saw seven speeding ships careen into the California coast in a historic pile up. This documentary paints a vivid and exciting picture of the events.
Friday Night Lights
Bay Theatre
Monday, May 26 — ONE SHOWING ONLY
Rating & Run Time: (PG-13) 1 hour and 58 minutes
Release Year: 2004
A small town’s obsessive love of their high school’s football squad sets the backdrop for this epic true story of a season spent in a pressure cooker. New coach (Billy Bob Thornton) has to justify his methods and earn the trust of the team and the town, while everyone in the football program juggles domestic dramas and familial needs making their demands on the focus it takes for the team to live up to it’s own great name. All proceeds from the show benefit MBHS Pirates football trip to Hawaii this summer.
300 Waves
Bay Theatre
Rating & Run Time: (NR) 1 hour and 14 minutes
Release Year: 2009
300 Waves is a surf film like no other. From the beginning to the end you'll see wave after wave, like you're sitting in your car with the stereo on as you watch the surfers ride. Filmed from 1994-2008 from Morro Rock to Cayucos Pier, come see your favorite local ride their local wave on our local big screen for the first time!
Mamma Mia!
Bay Theatre
Rating & Run Time: (PG-13) 1 hour and 48 minutes
Release Year: 2008
Help send our MBHS Pirate Girls Water Polo team to compete in a competitive international tournament in Greece, while enjoying this Mediterranean musical rom-com favorite. On Amanda Seyfried’s wedding day, she invites three of her mother (Meryl Streep)’s long-lost flames, any of whom may be her biological father! Set on the beautiful dreamed-up isle of Kalokairi, and scored by an infectious dance soundtrack of singalongs by beloved pop superstars ABBA, this fun-loving whirlwind of a story stands the test of time. HERE WE GO AGAIN!
Little Shop of Horrors
Bay Theatre
Rating & Run Time: (PG-13) 1 hour and 34 minutes
Release Year: 1986
Spend an evening of terror and delight in support of the Morro Bay High School Drama Department, as we take in the musical-comedy-sci-fi-horror CLASSIC that they will be taking to their stage starting Friday April 11. Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, and the unmistakeable alien-flora voice talents of Levi Stubbs (of the Four Tops) create one of the most enduring man-eating-plant meets teenage-romance meets social-commentary-song-and-dance tales ever told!
Network
BAY THEATRE
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Rating & Run Time: (R) 2 hours and 1 minute
Release Year: 1976
Peter Finch (in his final role, one that won him a posthumous Oscar) plays veteran news anchor Howard Beale, who makes a controversial on-air announcement that shocks the nation and grabs their attention to a degree unprecedented in the history of the media. An early exploration of the “viral sensation” and the fickle nature of the news cycle, Sydney Lumet’s stark and uncompromising work sees what happens to a world that’s ready to rally behind the cry of “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!”
Death To Smoochy
Bay Theatre
Rating & Run Time: (R) 1 hour and 49 minutes
Release Year: 2002
Directed By: Danny DeVito
Comedy icon Danny De Vito explores the darker side of children’s television with his directorial romp that features a stellar cast and insane criminal hijinx. Robin Williams plays a down-on-his-luck and slandered kids’ show star who goes to diabolical lengths to thwart the success of his new replacement/rival, a fluffy rhino named Smoochy (Edward Norton). This madcap cult classic also stars Catherine Keener, John Stewart, and the manic maestro himself, Danny De Vito.
Special event Concert Film: REAL LIFE THING
BAY THEATRE
Real Life Thing
One Show Only!
Saturday, March 22 at 1 p.m.
A conceptual concert film featuring Blasucci’s latest original album. Filmed at the same studio where the album was recorded - Carbonite Sound in Ojai, CA - the film runs like a type of musical play. The album is performed live with stage hands and different set changes to accentuate each mood throughout the record - certainly Sam’s most ambitious project to date. “This music is more for the creatures than for the humans” - Songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sam Blasucci.