At the Liberty:

Respect is an Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson. It follows Aretha’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom. RESPECT is a remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice.

Rotten Tomatoes critics rate this film as 68% favorable, with the audience at 95%. It has a PG-13 rating for mature thematic content, strong language including racial epithets, violence, suggestive material, and smoking. The runtime is 144 minutes.

This movie shows September 17-19 and 21 on Fri. & Sat. at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 3 pm, and Tuesday at 6:30.

The Liberty Theater is maintaining distancing and mask requirements. Please help us provide a relatively safe environment for all by complying with the mask requirement and maintaining social distancing. We appreciate your assistance and support.

Coming September 24, 25, 26, and 28 – the Manhattan Short Film Festival for 2021. The Liberty Theater in Dayton is one of 400 locations across the globe, showing this film festival for 11 days starting in late September. Dayton is the only location in eastern Washington showing this film festival more than one day (once in Spokane), and there are no showings in eastern Oregon. Don’t miss this opportunity to view the ten selected best short films (of 960 submitted from 70 countries) each night at the Liberty Theater and help the worldwide audience determine the best film and actor. See the Liberty Theater website for more information, and to reserve your seats, because seating is limited due to COVID distancing precautions.