Edmond Town Hall Theatre (ETH) and Cyrenius H. Booth Library, with the support of the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library, are partnering up to bring free movie showings to the community during the first two weekends in November.

The movie Babe (G) will be shown free of charge Saturday and Sunday, November 7-8. The following weekend, November 14-15, will feature free showings of Despicable Me (PG).

Movies will be at 1 and 4 pm each day. For a smooth admissions process, patrons are asked to arrive no later than 30 minutes before the start of their show.

To comply with health regulations, a maximum of 162 seats will be available in the 528-seat theater, with every other row roped off and three seats between each allowed seating area.

The free tickets will be available online only, with a limit of four free tickets per user.

Moviegoers will be able to buy concessions using their phones and orders will be delivered to their seats.

ETH staff will continue its disinfecting practices for the theater and the building’s public spaces before and after each show. Names will be crossed off the ticket list as patrons enter the main lobby, temperatures will be checked, and moviegoers will use separate entrances and exits.

Indoor movies have been on hiatus since the start of the pandemic in March. For financial reasons, indoor movies will not be returning as in the past. Thanks to the partnership with the library, however, ETH will be able to offer these free shows during the first two weekends in November.

“As sister organizations, we are pleased to help Edmond Town Hall Theatre offer these shows to the community,” said Douglas Lord, director of the library.

Released in 1995, Babe is a family comedy rated G with a running time of 1 hour, 32 minutes.

In it, gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett (played James Cromwell) wins a piglet named Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner when Farmer Hoggett decides to show him at the next fair, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) and discovers that he, too, can herd sheep.

The second film being offered next month, Despicable Me, is an animated family comedy. Released in 2010, the film follows a criminal mastermind named Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), who uses a trio of orphaned girls (Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Fisher) as pawns for a grand scheme but finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.

The film is rated PG, for “rude humor and mild action,” per the Motion Picture Association of America. It has a running time of 1 hour, 35 minutes.

To reserve tickets for either screening, visit edmondtownhall.org.