Event

This screening includes FAST FIVE

Date and time:: Sat, Oct 26, 8 pm; $20

Blockbuster Futures, For the Family Mega Marathon: Fast, Furious, Full-Throttle

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The fifth installment of the franchise trades L.A. for Brazil as the Fast films burst through as a staple on the global blockbuster market. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson joins the party, and the sumbitch brings the law along.

What better way to kick off our Blockbuster Futures conference than to highlight the global phenomenon that is the Fast & Furious Saga?! Each marathon day includes five films for $20, with day one and day two tickets sold separately.

Snacks, drinks in resealable/enclosed containers (there are no cupholders in the Cinema!), and finger foods that do not emit a strong odor will be allowed for this event. Alcohol, cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, and illicit drugs are prohibited at IU Cinema.

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker lead a reunion of all-stars from every chapter of the franchise and see the introduction of several new characters who will up the saga's ante in Brazil and beyond. Fugitive Dom Toretto (Diesel) partners with former cop Brian O'Conner (Walker) on the opposite side of the law in exotic Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, they are hunted by a high-powered U.S. strike force led by its toughest Fed (Dwayne Johnson) and an army of corrupt cops working for a ruthless drug kingpin. To gain their freedom and win this ultimate high-stakes race, they must pull off one last job—an insane heist worth $100 million. [130 min; action, crime, thriller; English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and French]

"Dwayne Johnson hops aboard as a stern U.S. agent hot on Diesel's trail, and the whole thing progresses to one of the looniest heists of all time. The result is the most exciting, visually jazzy, and absurd entry in the series." — Michael Wilmington, Chicago Reader

"In a free-for-all like this, where the laws of gravity and dictates of narrative logic are left to eat dust, it doesn't matter when anything takes place or why." — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"The picture delivers the high-octane, testosteronic goods of a warm-weather smash, and maybe the first great film of the post-human era. It's just a shame that every theater showing this nonstop auto race, this animated car-toon, can't be a drive-in." — Richard Corliss, Time

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