Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW (1954) @ The Hi-Pointe!

COST:
The Thursday afternoon screening features a discussion after the movie. When you purchase online, the cost is $18, if you're staying for the discussion, and $8 (matinee price), if you're not. Members save $3. There is not a senior/student discount, because of the matinee pricing.

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If you're NOT a Student/Senior, you can save at least $3/movie by becoming a Cinema St. Louis member.
MORE INFO: https://cinemastlouis.org/membership
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Coming SOON!
https://hipointetheatre.org/coming-soon/

MAY 2026
https://hipointetheatre.org/calendar/

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ADVANCE TICKETS:

This process does NOT get you a specific seat in the theater. If you believe an event like this might sell out, though, have at it. It does allow you to make a convenient additional donation to Cinema St. Louis, if you're so inclined.

NOTE: Until you select the desired quantity of tickets, ALL other fields will be "grayed out" and "unenterable".
https://hipointetheatre.org/purchase/381027/

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PARKING:

After 6PM M-F, after 12PM Saturday, and ALL DAY SUNDAY, there’s plenty of FREE parking right next door HERE:

Lindell Bank
6900 Clayton Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63139
314-645-7700
https://hipointetheatre.org/parking-directions/

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After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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JERRY SAYS: The group has watched this movie TWICE before:

Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:30AM @ Hi-Pointe Theatre
Sun, Oct 6, 2019 · 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM CDT @ Marcus Des Peres Cinema

REAR WINDOW is my 2nd favorite Hitchcock film after PSYCHO.
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Part of the series "Getting Hitched"
https://hipointetheatre.org/film-series/getting-hitched/

A Hitchcock Retrospective
Thursdays & Sundays • January 1–June 14, 2026

The Hi-Pointe rings in 2026 by celebrating Alfred Hitchcock with a 16-film retrospective that commences on New Year’s Day and continues through mid-June. Hopscotching across the Master of Suspense’s long and storied career, which stretched from the silent era through the New Hollywood of the 1970s, the series includes a trio of his precedent-setting British works but focuses on Hitchcock’s absurdly fertile American period.

The Thursday matinees for six of the films – Blackmail, The 39 Steps, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Rear Window, and Vertigo – will feature introductions and post-film discussions by Cliff Froehlich, former Riverfront Times film critic and retired executive director of Cinema St. Louis. These discussion screenings are generously sponsored by St. Louis Oasis. Froehlich will likely make surprise appearances at a few additional screenings – we’ll keep you in suspense – and he also contributes the synopses for the entire film series.
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 112 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1954

Starring: Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey

A darkly comic examination of cinema, sexuality, and voyeurism, Rear Window features a surprisingly frank relationship (given the censorious Production Code) between commitment-phobic photojournalist Jeff (James Stewart) and alluring girlfriend Lisa (the luminous Grace Kelly) and several subplots that explore male-female relations from multiple perspectives. The story – Jeff, immobilized by a broken leg, spies what appears to be a murder while peering at his neighbors through the apartment’s rear window – both generates excruciating suspense and provides a beautifully apt metaphor for the filmgoing experience itself. Hitchcock’s handling of the complex mise-en-scène, the myriad ancillary stories and intrigues, and the central romance (with its implicit critique of the man’s need for power and his ironic impotence) is simply masterful. With a fabulous Thelma Ritter as Jeff’s nurse and noodge – marry that girl! – and a pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr as the suspected killer across the courtyard.
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NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has a 99% on the Tomatometer and a 95% on the Popcornmeter.

https://hipointetheatre.org/movies/rear-window/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window
https://www.scripts.com/script/rear_window_431