One of the best ways to spend your leisure time in Washington DC is to watch a good movie. For this, you can choose one of the many world-class movie theatres locate din different parts of the district. Avalon Theatre is among the top-reviewed classic movie theatres in the region. You can make the choice among first-run commercial films, independent and foreign films, documentaries and other programs at this theatre.

The Landmark E Street Cinema is another recommended option located in the downtown area of the district. The theater has 8 screens and this helps the theater to screen new films as well as classic revivals at the same time. Dolby digital studio and an espresso bar are other features of the theater.

Uptown Theater is an historic single screen movie theater having its count among the major highlights of the Cleveland neighborhood. It is a pleasure to watch a movie in the theater which has been premier site for many Hollywood films.

Some of the other popular movie theater choices in the district are AMC Loews Uptown, Regal Gallery Place Stadium 14, William G. McGowan Theater, Washington Home Theater, Warehouse Theater and many more. You can also learn about the reviews of these movie theatres from the internet.

You can purchase the tickets for most of these theatres from the internet. It will help you save both time and efforts to enjoy one of your favorite movies with your friends and family members on a trip to Washington DC. You can also read the reviews of the movies to select the one you would prefer to watch.

There a lot of movies that had Washington, DC as the location. The fun facts of one of the Award winning movies filmed there are given here:

The film 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' got the National Award in the year 1939 in the category of Best Screenplay. The fun facts of this movie are cited below:

In this film, Jefferson Smith was actually supposed to play the interesting character of Boy Scout Leader. During the shoot the real Boy Scouts came to know about this role being given to Jefferson. They grew angry and protested against it to Capra. Finally Capra had talks with them and settled the issue. But the shoot was stopped for so many days. Due to this Capra suffered huge losses.

Another funny incident that took place while shooting the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is that Stewarts throat got swabbed with the chemical solution that helped make his sound hoarse. This voice was well suitable for his particular character in this film.

After this, his part of the role gained him a whooping amount of 100,000 dollar from the Senate Chamber which was later used in a movie of 1962 named "Advise & Consent". And in 2004, this desk was purchased on eBay by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society and then donated to the Senate. But it had been demoted to storage. And the officials were confused about the further actions on it.

Fun Facts about the movie

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Award winning Movies

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Reviews on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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