Pick A Favorite Chicago Film For Millennium Park's Movie Series

By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 14, 2016 9:26PM

The Color of Money

We Chicagoans love our hard-won summer fun, and we definitely have a healthy sense of competition and thin-skinned defensiveness civic pride. So news that an Audience Choice Night will close out the popular Summer Film Series in Millennium Park, with a screening of voters' favorite Chicago movie, sounds right up our alley.

Voters have until Aug. 16 to cast a ballot online at chifilmfave.org or in person at one of the previously scheduled downtown screenings. The winner will be announced on Aug. 23 and screened Tuesday, Aug., 30, at 6:30 p.m.

Candidates are:
Adventures in Babysitting
Ali
Backdraft
Barbershop
Blues Brothers
Color of Money
Divergent
High Fidelity
Home Alone
Love Jones
My Best Friend's Wedding
Ordinary People
Public Enemies
Risky Business
Road to Perdition
The Dark Knight
The Fugitive
Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon
The Untouchables
While You Were Sleeping

That's a pretty robust and commendably Catholic range of options, with familiar '80s and '90s warhorses sharing the ballot with some solid sleeper picks. We'd love to see an upset by Michael Mann's modern film-buff favorite Public Enemies or maybe (with director Brian De Palma's name back on tongues) The Untouchables. Whatever the outcome, you'll at least have the chance to participate in at least one non-WTF electoral process this year.

Check out the previously announced lineup and schedule here.