TOPS: Stand By Me

Each summer, the Toronto Outdoor Picture Show (TOPS) presents an a open-air festival program at four home parks across Toronto: Fort York, Christie Pits, Corktown Common, and Bell Manor Park. Corktown Common showings are on Thursday evenings starting July 3.

Join your neighbours at the park and enjoy Eats and Treats at 7pm, with the moving starting at sundown, ±9pm. Nestled between the Distillery and the Don, you get an unbeatable view of Toronto’s skyline. Bring a picnic blanket, folding chair, meditation cushion.... whatever you need to be comfortable hanging out with hundreds of neighbours on a big green lawn.

From the TOPS website: "Cool grass under your feet as the sun goes down is always nostalgic, calling to mind the summers when we were young, and warm nights shared with friends. Rob Reiner’s timeless Stand By Me captures that ephemeral, melancholic feeling perfectly, as an intrepid band of kids embarks on a quest to find a rumoured dead body down by the river - and in the process, come face to face with their own inevitable coming of age and mortality. It’s a tender story of friendship and the joy of misspent youth that doesn’t shy away from the darker side of growing up. So far as we’re concerned, it’s best experienced under the stars."

Screenings are open to anyone who would like to attend, with no barriers to entry. TOPS is always free to all, and charitable donations make this possible.

Full program here

July 3: Opener: Dazed and Confused

July 10: Moonlight

July 17: Speed Sisters

July 24: Stand By Me

July 31: Challengers

August 7: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane