Jumpstart Summer with These Iconic Films this Memorial Day Weekend!
Memorial Day Weekend is the official kick-off to blockbuster season!
For those of you who are not making the trip to the newly reopened Philadelphia Film Center or the PFS Drive-In at the Navy Yard to catch a screening of A QUIET PLACE PART II or CRUELLA, we put together a list of iconic summer films you can stream this weekend to get you mood for sunshine, sea water, and chlorine!
AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
Available to Rent on iTunes and Prime Video
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
DIRTY DANCING (1987)
Available to Stream on HBOMax
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances “Baby” Houseman falls in love with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
Available to Rent on iTunes and Prime Video
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
Available to Stream on Prime Video
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
THE GOONIES (1985)
Available to Stream on HBOMax
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
JAWS (1975)
Available to Stream on HBOMax
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
NOW AND THEN (1995)
Available to Rent on iTunes
Four 12-year-old girls grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970.
THE PARENT TRAP (1998)
Available to Stream on Disney+
Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, later discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.
THE SANDLOT (1993)
Available to Stream on Hulu
In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures.
WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (2001)
Available to Stream on Peacock
Set on the last day of camp, in the hot summer of 1981, a group of counselors try to complete their unfinished business before the day ends.