| Date: | August 25, 2017 |
| Time: | 8:30 - 11:00 PM |
| Venue: | Downtown Park |
| Organizations: | Downtown Christiansburg Inc. |
| Description: |
Downtown Christiansburg Inc. (DCI) and the Town of Christiansburg present the 2017 Movies in the Park series featuring free movies at Downtown Park continuing with The Life of Pi on Friday, August 25, 2017 in Downtown Park in Christiansburg, VA. Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure drama rated PG starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Adil Hussain. In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Richard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive. For more information on the movie, visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876. Bring your blankets and lawn chairs down to the Downtown Park to relax with family, friends, and neighbors and enjoy a great feature film and FREE POPCORN! Downtown Park is located on College Street, next to the Armory in downtown Christiansburg, VA. Street parking is available, as well as off street parking in the Armory or Library parking lots. For more information, visit: http://www.downtownchristiansburg.org/events/movies-in-the-park-august-2017/ or https://www.facebook.com/DowntownChristiansburgInc/. |