The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). Other Muppets -- Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle -- weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spirits of three Christmases -- past, present and future. They show him the error of his self-serving ways, but the miserable old man seems to be past any hope of redemption and happiness.

Runtime: 85 minutes
Rating: G​

The Big Picture Peoria Film Festival invites filmmakers from across the Midwest to share their short films at the Giant Screen Theater. Each screening consists of approximately 90 minutes of short films followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Following the Saturday night screening, we will present the awards to the best films at the fest, including the audience awards. The renowned after party will follow—tickets to the after party at Zion are sold here. 

Before each screening, there will be a live set from local musicians beginning 30 minutes prior to showtime—this screening will feature Cam Camryn from 5:30–6 PM.

Please note: These films are by independent filmmakers and are not rated. Some content may include mature themes or language. Parental discretion is advised.

Screenings regularly sell out, so we recommend arriving well before showtime to find a seat in the full theater. There will be local acoustic music while you wait. If you are not here 5 minutes before the screening, your seat will be given away to a RUSH TICKET holder. 

RUSH TICKETS – If tickets are sold out—there will be a limited number of tickets sold the day of. If you want to buy RUSH TICKETS please see the information here.

New this year—The Big Picture Peoria Film Festival invites filmmakers from across the Midwest to share their “family friendly” short films at the Giant Screen Theater. Films include animated shorts and documentaries. Each screening consists of approximately 90 minutes of short films followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Before each screening, there will be a live set from local musicians beginning 30 minutes prior to showtime—this screening will feature Emily How from 12:30–1 PM.

Please note: The programming team will make every effort to select short films that are family-friendly (PG). However, we cannot guarantee that content will be suitable for all audiences. Please see the information about each film and read our content warnings for each one. 

Screenings regularly sell out, so we recommend arriving well before showtime to find a seat in the full theater. There will be local acoustic music while you wait. If you are not here 5 minutes before the screening, your seat may be given away to a RUSH TICKET holder. 

RUSH TICKETS – If tickets are sold out—there will be a limited number of tickets sold the day of. If you want to buy RUSH TICKETS please see the information here.

Pardoned by the president, a lucky turkey (Owen Wilson) named Reggie gets to live a carefree lifestyle, until fellow fowl Jake (Woody Harrelson) recruits him for a history-changing mission. Jake and Reggie travel back in time to the year 1621, just before the first Thanksgiving. The plan: Prevent all turkeys from ever becoming holiday dinners. Unfortunately, the two birds encounter colonist Myles Standish (Colm Meaney), out to capture feathered friends for all the hungry Pilgrims.

Runtime: 91 minutes
Rating: PG​

The Big Picture Peoria Film Festival invites filmmakers from across the Midwest to share their short films at the Giant Screen Theater. Each screening consists of approximately 90 minutes of short films followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. 

Before each screening, there will be a live set from local musicians beginning 30 minutes prior to showtime—this screening will feature Andy Martinez from 6:00–6:30 PM.

Please note: These films are by independent filmmakers and are not rated. Some content may include mature themes or language. Parental discretion is advised.

Screenings regularly sell out, so we recommend arriving well before showtime to find a seat in the full theater. There will be local acoustic music while you wait. If you are not here 5 minutes before the screening, your seat may be given away to a RUSH TICKET holder. 

RUSH TICKETS – If tickets are sold out—there will be a limited number of tickets sold the day of. If you want to buy RUSH TICKETS please see the information here.

Over the course of a single day, decades of tension escalate to a boiling point as a father and son quarantine together during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Based on real events.

Shot in Elmwood and Peoria. Writer-director David Ferino, a Peoria Native, will be present for a Q&A following the film.

Before each screening, there will be a live set from local musicians beginning 30 minutes prior to showtime—this screening will feature Grey Slush (with visuals) from 6:00–6:30 PM.

In 1976, singer Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) uses the profits from his only hit single to fulfill a longtime dream of owning a basketball team. His team, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league, and what's more, the franchise may fold when the ABA and NBA announce plans to merge. It's up to Jackie and the Tropics to turn their game around and slam-dunk their chance for survival.

Hosted by Richwoods High School Basketball

Runtime: 99 minutes
Rating: R

When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milquetoast insurance agent Bruce Baldwin, he unsuccessfully tries to lure her away from tame domestic life with a story about the impending execution of convicted murderer Earl Williams. But when Hildy discovers Williams may be innocent, her reporter instincts take over.

This screening is part of the musuem’s Art of Film series, featuring classic Screwball Comedies curated by author and film historian JB Kaufman. Each film includes a special video introduction from Kaufman, providing insight and context before the show.

Runtime: 92 minutes

Join us at the Peoria Riverfront Museum for a special Movie Mixer event!

Go on an undersea adventure with a tour of Finding Titanic: The Secret Mission presented by CEFCU, then journey into the ocean with Nemo and friends with a screening of Pixar's Finding Nemo on the largest Film Society screen in the nation! Crafts will be available up until the start of the movie. 

Rating: G

The legendary "loot of a thousand worlds" inspires an intergalactic treasure hunt when 15-year-old Jim Hawkins stumbles upon a map to the greatest pirate trove in the universe in Walt Disney Pictures' thrilling animated space adventure, "Treasure Planet." Based on one of the greatest adventure stories ever told - Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" - this film follows Jim's fantastic journey across a parallel universe as a cabin boy aboard a glittering space galleon.

Runtime: 95 minutes
Rating: PG​

The legendary "loot of a thousand worlds" inspires an intergalactic treasure hunt when 15-year-old Jim Hawkins stumbles upon a map to the greatest pirate trove in the universe in Walt Disney Pictures' thrilling animated space adventure, "Treasure Planet." Based on one of the greatest adventure stories ever told - Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" - this film follows Jim's fantastic journey across a parallel universe as a cabin boy aboard a glittering space galleon.

Runtime: 95 minutes
Rating: PG​

When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milquetoast insurance agent Bruce Baldwin, he unsuccessfully tries to lure her away from tame domestic life with a story about the impending execution of convicted murderer Earl Williams. But when Hildy discovers Williams may be innocent, her reporter instincts take over.

This screening is part of the musuem’s Art of Film series, featuring classic Screwball Comedies curated by author and film historian JB Kaufman. Each film includes a special video introduction from Kaufman, providing insight and context before the show.

Runtime: 92 minutes

Harried paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random (May Robson), who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum. On the day before his wedding, Huxley meets Mrs. Random's high-spirited young niece, Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), a madcap adventuress who immediately falls for the straitlaced scientist. The ever-growing chaos -- including a missing dinosaur bone and a pet leopard -- threatens to swallow him whole.

This screening is part of the musuem’s Art of Film series, featuring classic Screwball Comedies curated by author and film historian JB Kaufman. Each film includes a special video introduction from Kaufman, providing insight and context before the show.

Runtime: 102 minutes

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More). Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith (Laurence Naismith) keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

Runtime: 123 minutes
Rating: Not Rated

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More). Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith (Laurence Naismith) keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

Runtime: 123 minutes
Rating: Not Rated

During a forbidden excursion to see the surface world, a goldfish princess encounters a human boy named Sosuke, who gives her the name Ponyo. Ponyo longs to become human, and as her friendship with Sosuke grows, she becomes more humanlike. Ponyo's father brings her back to their ocean kingdom, but so strong is Ponyo's wish to live on the surface that she breaks free, and in the process, spills a collection of magical elixirs that endanger Sosuke's village.

Runtime: 103 minutes
Rating: G​

During a forbidden excursion to see the surface world, a goldfish princess encounters a human boy named Sosuke, who gives her the name Ponyo. Ponyo longs to become human, and as her friendship with Sosuke grows, she becomes more humanlike. Ponyo's father brings her back to their ocean kingdom, but so strong is Ponyo's wish to live on the surface that she breaks free, and in the process, spills a collection of magical elixirs that endanger Sosuke's village.

Runtime: 103 minutes
Rating: G​

Harried paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random (May Robson), who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum. On the day before his wedding, Huxley meets Mrs. Random's high-spirited young niece, Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), a madcap adventuress who immediately falls for the straitlaced scientist. The ever-growing chaos -- including a missing dinosaur bone and a pet leopard -- threatens to swallow him whole.

This screening is part of the musuem’s Art of Film series, featuring classic Screwball Comedies curated by author and film historian JB Kaufman. Each film includes a special video introduction from Kaufman, providing insight and context before the show.

Runtime: 102 minutes

Painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer creates works of art that explore human existence and the cyclical nature of history. The filmmaker sheds light on the work of an artist and reveals his inspiration, processes, and fascination with myth and history.

Runtime: 93 minutes

Painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer creates works of art that explore human existence and the cyclical nature of history. The filmmaker sheds light on the work of an artist and reveals his inspiration, processes, and fascination with myth and history.

Runtime: 93 minutes

A young Englishman in the Paris of 1899, becomes infatuated with Satine, a singer at the Moulin Rouge. However, she has been promised by the manager to a Duke in return for funding his next production. As the young lovers meet in secret, Satine's wedding day draws closer but she hides a fatal secret from both Christian and the Duke.

Runtime: 127 minutes

Certain she was dying from radium poisoning, Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) is delighted to learn from her doctor that it was a false alarm. But when dapper and desperate New York City reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) shows up looking for a story about a young girl braving terminal illness, Hazel decides that she's sick again. Wally whisks her off to Manhattan, where her supposed courage wins her many admirers. The toast of the town, she falls in love with Wally and dreads being discovered.

This screening is part of the musuem’s Art of Film series, featuring classic Screwball Comedies curated by author and film historian JB Kaufman. Each film includes a special video introduction from Kaufman, providing insight and context before the show.

Runtime: 77 minutes

Everyone knows that, each Christmas, Santa Claus delivers presents to every last child on Earth. What everyone doesn't know is that Santa accomplishes the feat with a very high-tech operation beneath the North Pole. But when the unthinkable happens, and Santa misses one child out of hundreds of millions, someone has to save the day. It's up to Arthur (James McAvoy), Santa's youngest son, to deliver a present to the forgotten tyke before Christmas morning dawns.

Runtime: 97 minutes
Rating: PG

We're goin' up, up, up — and now it's YOUR moment! For one weekend only, seal the Honmoon and sing your favorite "KPop Demon Hunters" songs with HUNTR/X and the Saja Boys in this full-length, sing-along version of the Netflix hit film.

LIMITED SEATS REMEAINING

Runtime: 95 minutes
Rating: PG​

We're goin' up, up, up — and now it's YOUR moment! For one weekend only, seal the Honmoon and sing your favorite "KPop Demon Hunters" songs with HUNTR/X and the Saja Boys in this full-length, sing-along version of the Netflix hit film.

SOLD OUT

Runtime: 95 minutes
Rating: PG​

We're goin' up, up, up — and now it's YOUR moment! For one weekend only, seal the Honmoon and sing your favorite "KPop Demon Hunters" songs with HUNTR/X and the Saja Boys in this full-length, sing-along version of the Netflix hit film.

Runtime: 95 minutes
Rating: PG​

Certain she was dying from radium poisoning, Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) is delighted to learn from her doctor that it was a false alarm. But when dapper and desperate New York City reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) shows up looking for a story about a young girl braving terminal illness, Hazel decides that she's sick again. Wally whisks her off to Manhattan, where her supposed courage wins her many admirers. The toast of the town, she falls in love with Wally and dreads being discovered.

This screening is part of the musuem’s Art of Film series, featuring classic Screwball Comedies curated by author and film historian JB Kaufman. Each film includes a special video introduction from Kaufman, providing insight and context before the show.

Runtime: 77 minutes

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

Runtime: 109 minutes
Rating: R

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

Runtime: 109 minutes
Rating: R

Jerry (Cary Grant) and Lucy (Irene Dunne) are a married couple who doubt each other's fidelity: Jerry suspects Lucy and her music teacher (Alexander D'Arcy) of spending an evening together, and Lucy is convinced Jerry lied about a business trip. When the jealous pair file for divorce, both rush into new relationships, but quickly realize their love never died. The soon-to-be-divorced husband and wife then both scramble to spoil each other's chances for newfound romance.

This screening is part of the musuem’s Art of Film series, featuring classic Screwball Comedies curated by author and film historian JB Kaufman. Each film includes a special video introduction from Kaufman, providing insight and context before the show.

Runtime: 91 minutes