The Night of Washed-Up Superheroes!!

Note early start time!!!

6:30PM – The Incredibles – 2004 – 115 mins. Animated – Pixar Studios – won the Hugo in 2005 for Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form.

Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), were formerly the crimefighting elite of Metroville. Liability insurance gets too expensive, and they’re forced underground to the suburbs to live a “normal life” with their children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. Toiling for the man, and dreaming of the good ol’ days, Bob gets a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

9:00 PM – The Watchmen – The Director’s Cut – 2009 – 186 mins. – Directed by Zack Snyder

Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. Their mission is to watch over humanity… but who is watching the Watchmen?” Based on the amazing Hugo Award-winning graphic novel by Alan Moore.

Cash bar and doors open at 6:00 PM

There will be a short intermission between films

While we have no admission charge, a $5 suggested donation goes directly to Variety Childrens’ Charity – drop some cash in the donation box, or buy a beer!

The Variety Preview Room Theatre, The Hobart Bldg. 1st Floor – entrance is between Quizno’s & Citibank, 582 Market Street at 2nd & Montgomery, San Francisco.