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COMMUNITY NIGHT

PRESENTED BY INTERLOCHEN IN TOWN

SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE)

Wednesday, December 3rd

Lives intertwine around Green Lake as a girl learns to sail, a boy fights for first chair, two sisters operate a bed-and-breakfast, and a fisherman is after the catch of his life.

*FREE ADMISSION TO INTERLOCHEN STUDENTS*

Doors: 6:00pm
Event: 7:00pm

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY 

Friday, December 5th – Sunday, December 7th

When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.
Special Sunday Showtimes!
Friday 12/5 – Saturday 12/6
1:00pm, 4:30pm,7:55pm
Sunday 12/7
1:15pm, 4:45 pm, 7:55pm

TCFF SUNDAY BRUNCH CINEMA PRESENTS

THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO

Sunday, Dcember 7th
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Doors 9:00am
Event 10:00am

2025 Fall Season

PASSES ARE NOW ON SALE

Tuesday, October 7th through Tuesday, December 23rd

1pm and 7pm

Tuesday, October 7 – Tuesday, December 23rd

Do you need to vent? About gerunds, perhaps? Or participles? About the nagging fear that your participle might actually be a gerund? Or – could it also be a clause!? REBEL WITH A CLAUSE is a hilarious, didactic and wholly entertaining journey through America with bestselling author and grammar guru Ellen Jovin. Filmed by her husband, Brandt Johnson, Ms. Jovin traverses the country one grammar pop-up table at a time, patiently engaging with America’s most burning grammatical situations. The cinematic result is part vox pop, part grammatical aside – and all courageous embrace of how what & how we say what we say creates the world in which we live (or can we end with a preposition?!).

Bonus: the filmmakers – and The Grammar Table – will be in Traverse City for the screening & Q&A! Please bring your most vexing grammatical question. Diagramming sentences encouraged; oxford commas optional. “Non-mandatory grammar quizzes” will be provided!

Tuesday, December 2nd at 1pm and 7pm

Thank You to Our Sponsors

TERRY LYNN CARRITHERS
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GRANT MICHAEL CARRITHERS

The Traverse City Film Festival is committed to showing ‘Just Great Movies’ and helping to save one of America’s few indigenous art forms — the cinema. We are committed to showing great movies that both entertain and enlighten the audience. We need movies that seek to enrich the human spirit and the art of filmmaking, not the bottom line. Our goal is for people to leave the theater with the feeling that they just watched something special.

Kids’ $1 Matinee!

The State Theatre offers family friendly movies every Saturday at 10 am.

All tickets are only $1

We also offer affordable snacks for both children and adults.

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The State Theatre is operated by the Traverse City Film Festival, a licensed 501(c)3 organization.

STATE THEATRE

233 E. Front St.

Traverse City, MI 49684

(231) 600-7272