🍿 The Rivals of Amziah King at the Bay Theatre (evening showing)

The Rivals of Amziah King takes over the Bay Theatre screen

In downtown Morro Bay. The Rivals of Amziah King plays the Bay Theatre from Friday, August 21 through Wednesday, September 2, bringing the acclaimed Matthew McConaughey crime drama to the hometown single screen. Check the show page for this run’s confirmed showtimes; the theatre’s standard schedule runs afternoon and evening showings with Sunday matinees, dark Mondays and Thursdays.

The late-August slot is a good one for a grown-up drama, the summer crowds thinning, the evenings cooling, and a downtown movie night pairing naturally with dinner on Main Street or the Embarcadero before the show. McConaughey’s return to a leading dramatic role has carried the film’s buzz since the festival circuit, and the hometown screen beats waiting for streaming.

The Bay Theatre is Morro Bay’s single-screen downtown movie house at 464 Morro Bay Blvd, a block off the Embarcadero, where a night at the movies still comes with a real marquee and walkable dinner options on either side of the show. The theatre is closed Thursdays. Note that Coyote vs. Acme opens August 28 while this run finishes, so the two films will split the screen’s showtimes in the overlap week; the show pages carry the day-by-day schedule.

For the full marquee and the Monday Specials, see what is coming up on the event calendar.