Grassy Strip Family-Friendly Film Festival Schedule Announced

The Madison Beach Hotel has announced the schedule for the Grassy Strip Family-Friendly Film Festival. The hotel is inviting town residents and guests to enjoy an evening of movies under the stars with family and friends at Madison Beach Hotel on the grassy strip of land between the hotel and the beach on Long Island Sound.

Here are the details:

WHEN: Each Tuesday night through August 28th, 2012. Shows begin at 8:30pm.

WHERE: The lawn at the Madison Beach Hotel. 94 West Wharf Rd., Madison, CT.

WHAT: The newly-launched Madison Beach Hotel is hosting a complimentary summer-long weekly film festival for the whole family to enjoy! Each Tuesday, Madison Beach Hotel welcomes you and your family to come by and enjoy a featured film while underneath the starlit sky on Madison Beach’s lawn.

 The line-up of family friendly movies will be screened as follows:

July 17th:  Wall-E: Directed by Andrew featuring actors, Ben Burtt and Jeff Garlin, “Wall-E” is an animated film that takes place in the distant future, and is about a small waste robot, which mistakenly embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. This movie is heartfelt and is about making friends and forming bonds.

July 24th: How to Train Your Dragon: Co-directed by Dean DeBois and Chris Sanders, this animated film stars Jay Baruchel and Gerard Butler. The movie is about a hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons, and ends up becoming the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself. Throughout the film he learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.

July 31st: Up: The 2009 animated movie is about a man named Carl, who is 78 years-old and sets out to fulfill a lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Co-directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, the film tells a funny story that is comical and heartfelt, conveying a moral lesson about how our connection to others is what makes life meaningful.

August 7th:  Hugo: Directed by award-winning Martin Scorsese and starring Asa Butterfield and Chloe Grace Moretz, the movie is set in the 1930’s in Paris and is about an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station. The exciting movie is wrapped up in a mystery about the boy’s late father an automaton.

August 14th: Despicable Me: Co-directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, the animated feature film stars Steve Carell and Jason Segel, and is a comical tail about a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme. Throughout the story, he ends up finding that their love is profoundly changing for him, and forms a deep bond with the girls.

August 21st: The Parent Trap: The 1998 Disney classic is directed by Nancy Meyers and stars Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson. The remake of the classic hit is a comical story about identical twins separated at birth and each are raised by one of their biological parents. The girls discover each other while at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together

August 28th: Tangled: Directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, the animated film stars Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy. The film is about the magically long-haired Rapunzel, who has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her she is about to discover the world for the first time and who she really is.

MORE INFO: This weekly movie festival is open to all ages and is complimentary to attend. Madison Beach Hotel recommends bringing blankets for seating. For dining reservations to The Wharf Restaurant, please call: (203) 245-1404. The Wharf Restaurant also provides limited table seating on the hotel’s scenic deck.