My dad loved movies. We never knew what to get him for birthdays or Christmas so we all, independently, seemed to converge on giving him movie tickets and passes. When we sorted through his stuff, we found a cache of unused tickets and gift cards. We divvied them up evenly.
I wanted to see the new Jim Jarmusch movie The Dead Don’t Die but it only seemed to be playing across the border into New York at the AMC in Port Chester. I thought I should probably try and use one the gift cards. This all happened to fall on Father’s Day.
It was all a little overwhelming.
I ended up seeing the movie, but didn’t use any of the gift cards. It was my least favorite Jarmusch in a long time. When I got home, I discovered that it had been playing at The Avon a block from my house the whole time.