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Outdoor Summer Movies 2025

By Meghan Friedland, Editor/Publisher Macaroni Kid Greater Danbury, CT June 10, 2025

Several towns have special outdoor movies planned this summer! Take a look at our guide to plan out your nights of summer fun with the family. Then grab the kids, snacks and a picnic blanket and go! Note that each of these individual events are listed in our calendar, so we will remind you of them as they come up via our weekly e-newsletter as well as our regular posts on social media. As always, bookmark this guide and check back often as we are always adding to the list as we hear of more events. Also, if you notice that we are missing any, please email us and we'll add the event(s) to the list!

DANBURY

Summer Movie Nights at Candlewood Town Park; FREE; Bring a chair. Movie begins at Dusk.

🍿  "Dog Man" (rated PG) (JULY 11)

🍿 "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" (rated PG) (JULY 18)

🍿 "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" (rated PG)  (JULY 25)

🍿 "Moana 2" (rated PG)  (AUG 1)

🍿 "Mufasa: The Lion King" (rated PG)  (AUG 8)

NEWTOWN

Drive-In Theater Nights at Edmond Town Hall; $25 per car; Tickets online; Gates open at 8:30; movie at 9PM.

🍿"Friday The 13th" (rated R) (JUNE 13 & 14)

🍿 "Grease" (rated PG) (JUNE 20 & 21)

🍿 "Major League" (rated R) (JUNE 27 & 28)

🍿 "Ghostbusters" (rated PG) (JULY 11 & 12)

🍿 "Carrie" (rated R) (JULY 25 & 26)

🍿 "The Big Lebowski" (rated R) (AUG 8 & 9)

🍿"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (rated PG) (AUG 15 & 16)

🍿 "The NeverEnding Story" (rated PG) (AUG 22 & 23)

🍿 "Dirty Dancing" (rated PG-13) (AUG 29 & 30)

Movie Night Under the Stars at Fairfield Hills Soccer Field

🍿 Disney's "WISH" (rated PG) (AUG 5)

WASHINGTON

Outdoor Movie Nights at Judy Black Memorial Park & Gardens, the 3rd Friday of each month June through September; FREE.  

🍿 "The Birdcage" (rated R) (JUNE 20)

🍿 "Goldfinger" (rated PG) (JULY 18)

🍿 (movie TBA) (AUG 15)

🍿 Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" (rated PG) (SEPT. 19)

EASTON

Movie Nights Under the Stars at Aspetuck Park on select Fridays this summer

🍿  "Toy Story 4" (rated G) (JUNE 27)

🍿 "Wicked" (rated PG) @ Aspetuck Park (JULY 25)

🍿 "The Goonies" (rated PG) (AUG 15)


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