Join us for a special memorial screening, honoring the memory of Anne Leydon.
"One of the first movies my late wife Anne and I saw together was Casablanca — on the big screen, the way God intended us to see it, at a New Orleans repertory theater. We watched and rewatched it countless times over the course of our time together because, well, it was our favorite movie. So I can’t tell you how happy I am to share it with the River Oaks audience – on the big screen! – August 27, just one day short of what should have been our 50th anniversary. Here’s looking at you, Anne!" – Joe Leydon, long-time Houston film critic
World War II, Morocco – a viper’s nest of corrupt French police, spies, fleeing émigrés, gamblers and drinkers. It’s the perfect place for weary American expatriate nightclub owner Rick Blaine to hide out. Rick’s Cafe is the gathering place for the good, the bad and the ugly, but he doesn’t care, as long as they spend their money.
One day, of all the bars in all the world, Rick’s long-lost love, Ilsa walks in with her resistance leader husband, Victor, and Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from Casablanca, and Rick may be the only one who can help them.
Casablanca is the greatest love story ever told and time may have gone by but it has not diminished it.
