State Theatre

Run Time: 100 min. Rating: PG-13

While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen (Academy Award® winner Ellen Burstyn) moves into a nearby...

Run Time: 103 min.

Rumble is the electric story of how Native American influence shaped rock and roll, a missing chapter in music...

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 120 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1963

Starring: Jessica Tandy, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedron, Veronica Cartwright

A flock of birds terrorizes the small town of Bodega Bay.

Run Time: 97 min. Rating: R

When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep...

Director: Pete Docter Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 2015

Starring: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Kaitlyn Dias, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind

Meet the little voices inside your head.

Run Time: 70 min.

Opera Modesto’s award-winning movie, THE RACE, is a feel-good family film. Full of delightful characters straight out of...

Director: Ahmir-Khalib Thompson Run Time: 117 min. Release Year: 2021

Starring: Chris Rock, Jesse Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stevie Wonder, Tony Lawrence

A Questlove Jawn

Director: David M. Evans Run Time: 101 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1993

Starring: Chauncey Leopardi, James Earl Jones, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Tom Guiry

Join The State as we welcome back our Waaay Back series with a family favorite, The Sandlot. Fun for the whole family, bring your little ones to show them how much fun it really was to play outside!

Run Time: 118 min. Release Year: 1944

We are happy to be able to screen the film before the discussion, so you can see it in person!

Director: Jon Favreau Run Time: 95 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2003

Starring: Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, James Caan, Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel

A human raised as an elf seeks to remind his birth family the true meaning of Christmas and save Christmas in New York.

Director: Frank Capra Run Time: 135 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1946

Starring: Beulah Bondi, Donna Reed, Frank Faylen, Gloria Grahame, H.B. Warner, Henry Travers, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond

During Christmas time, a small-town man prepares to jump from a bridge until his guardian angel intercedes, and shows him what life would have become for the people in his life if he had never lived.

Director: Bob Clark Run Time: 94 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1983

Starring: Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon, Peter Billingsley, Scott Schwartz

In 1940s Hammond, nine-year-old Ralphie wants one thing for Christmas, an official Red Ryder BB rifle.

Director: Lou Adler Run Time: 86 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1978

Starring: Cheech Marin, Edie Adams, Harold Fong, Strother Martin, Tommy Chong

The movie that'll have you rolling in the aisles.

Director: David Gordon Green Run Time: 111 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2008

Starring: Danny McBride, Gary Cole, James Franco, Rosie Perez, Seth Rogen

A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

Director: John Huston Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 1941

Starring: Barton MacLane, Gladys George, Humprey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre

We are happy to be able to screen the film before the discussion, so you can see it in person!