Spring into golf season with ‘Caddyshack’
West-central Illinois may be dealing with spring storms and floods, but more than a few golfers are eyeing area courses for enough drainage to play a round.
To help celebrate the season and the sport once dubbed “a good walk ruined,” downtown Peoria’s Apollo Theater is screening the 1980 comedy “Caddyshack” one night only on Saturday March 21.
Starring Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Michael O’Keefe, the 1980 romp is a sophomoric delight, filled with goofy golf and a class war between the likeable rich guy and sneering snobs like the club president (ex-“Mary Tyler Moore Show” star Ted Knight).
As a gopher-hunting groundskeeper, Murray steals the scenes he’s in, as does Chase in his Zen-like playing style, and golf could never again be completely considered an elitist undertaking.
Written and directed by Harold Ramis, it also features Brian Doyle-Murray.
Showtime will be 7 p.m., and the suggested donation at the nonprofit Apollo is $5 and $4 for kids, students and seniors. For details call (309) 673-4343.
