What July 4th would be complete without a tongue-in-cheek tribute from your friendly, neighborhood Rio Theatre. We are very excited to bring to you, local Vancouver actor, AN EVENING WITH GIL BELLOWS. Gil will be live on our stage to intro Frank Darabont's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (featuring Mr. Bellows as 'Tommy'), followed by a post screening Q&A and then a live intro of his 1994, bad boy, thriller LOVE AND A .45 where Gil played lead, 'Watty Watts' opposite 'Starlene' (Renée Zellweger).

Friday, July 4
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Doors 7:30 pm | Intro & Film 8:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Post screening Q&A with GIL BELLOWS

Brief Intermission

LOVE AND A .45
Intro & Film Approx. 11:15 pm *Start time subject to change as this is part of a double bill.

Tickets just $22!
Single film tickets available at www.riotheatretickets.ca

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (Frank Darabont, 1994 / 142 mins / 18A) Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

LOVE AND A .45 (C.M. Talkington | 1994 | 101 mins | 14A) Small-time criminal Watty Watts attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black. The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene. Heading toward Mexico, the fugitive couple gets plenty of media coverage, until there are even more people on their trail. Can Watty and Starlene make it south of the border without getting caught?