A Grand weekend for ‘The Unbreakable Boy’

The Red Oak Grand Theater participated in a once in a lifetime event this past weekend.
The theater hosted first-run showings of “The Unbreakable Boy,” a film based on the lives of Red Oak natives Scott, Teresa, Austin, and Logan LeRette. Red Oak Grand Theater volunteer and spokesperson Jeanice Lester said the weekend was very fun, even though there was a bit of adversity.
“Our projector went down in theater number two. People were gracious and they were patient. We had a 5:30 show, and put those people in the theater room and then we put the next 7:30 show people in the new theater room and it worked out really good. Excellent. I would say that we probably more than three-fourths full for nearly the entire time. The Saturday afternoon show was a little slow but we made up for it the other times. It was fun. People enjoyed it. It was especially neat to have the LeRettes here, That was awesome. It was fun to see how many people knew Austin and his family,” said Lester. “The worst thing that could happen in our opinion happened, but we just discussed what we were going to do about it. We all put our heads together and came up with Plan B and it just worked really smoothly.”
Lester added the Grand Theatre was very lucky to snag “The Unbreakable Boy” for this special event.
“We will probably never have another film on its opening weekend again, Because we’re not considered a first-run theater because we don’t charge a large amount for our tickets,” commented Lester.
Lester also wanted to give a mention to a number of sponsors that chipped in to allow for the film to be shown for free.
“We had to charge more to get this because it wasn’t considered a two dollar admission movie, therefore, our sponsors made us be able to charge nothing because what we send in to the movie company will cover it and the other percentage that we would normally keep from the ticket sales we didn’t take, but we feel we made our money at the concession stands and it’s a nice public thing to do for the community,” Lester stated.
Members of Nishna Productions were given a free showing of the film, and it will once again be shown again in Theater One for free this coming weekend, so anyone that couldn’t make it out will have another opportunity. Also, Lester said the part for the downed projector is expected to be in and the second projector repaired in time for this weekends showings, and they anticipate no further interruptions.