Fools Who Dream

Portland Movie Calendar

Valley Girl

Empirical | Sept. 5, 13 & 21, 2025

Valley Girl

A girl from the San Fernando Valley falls for a Hollywood punker, much to the dismay of her socially-conscious friends.
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Moonstruck

Empirical | Sept. 6, 14 & 20, 2025

Moonstruck

No sooner does an Italian-American widow accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother.
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Dream Scenario

Empirical | Sept. 12, 14 & 17, 2025

Dream Scenario

A hapless family man finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.
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Desperately Seeking Susan

Academy | Sept. 12-18, 2025

Desperately Seeking Susan

If you know what to look for, you can find almost anything in the personal ads, including the love of your life!
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Basic Instinct

Academy | Sept. 19-25, 2025

Basic Instinct

Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone costars as Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating, and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite.
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WALL-E

Tomorrow Theater | Sept. 21, 2025

WALL-E

What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?
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The Royal Tenenbaums

Cinema 21 | Sept. 20-24, 2025

The Royal Tenenbaums

Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums is part tragedy, part dollhouse—a portrait of prodigies who peaked too soon. Gene Hackman’s Royal, the estranged patriarch, barges back into the lives of his damaged children, feigning illness but spreading chaos.
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Days of Heaven

Cinema 21 | Sept. 22, 2025

Days of Heaven

Malick’s Days of Heaven is less told than witnessed: a love triangle unfolding through wheat fields and firestorms. Richard Gere and Brooke Adams play lovers posing as siblings, entangled with a dying farmer (Sam Shepard).
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Highest 2 Lowest

Empirical | Sept. 23, 2025

Highest 2 Lowest

An adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, Spike Lee's latest work concerns a powerful music mogul David King who is targeted by a ransom plot just as he is concluding a pivotal business deal.
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All of You

Cinemagic | Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2025

All of You

Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
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Do the Right Thing

Empirical | Sept. 26, 28, & Oct. 4, 2025

Do the Right Thing

Produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who also played the part of Mookie in the film, Do the Right Thing tells the story of a neighborhood's simmering racial tension, which comes to a head and culminates in tragedy on the hottest day of summer.
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Inside Man

Empirical | Sept. 28, Oct. 1 & 4, 2025

Inside Man

The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind, a determined detective, and a power broker with a hidden agenda.
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