Vote for the 2025 Top of the Park Movies By Moonlight Lineup

What’s your favorite movie! Voting is now open for the 2025 Ann Arbor Top of the Park Movie Lineup!

My family loves attending Top of the Park, particularly when we can meet up with friends. My daughter and I particularly enjoy seeing the movies. On the other hand, my husband doesn’t like the late hour of the movies since he has to work the next day.

The exact dates for Top of the Park 2025 have not yet been announced. Traditionally it runs from mid-June through early July. It has traditionally been 3 weeks, but has been cut to 2 weeks in recent years. Hopefully they will be back with a full 3 week schedule for 2025.

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About the Top of the Park Movies by Moonlight Series

Movies by Moonlight are shown on a screen in front of UM’s Rackham Auditroium with seating on Washington St, and the Ingalls Mall.

Last year saw a continuation of the shortened season of Top of the Park at 2 weeks instead of 3 weeks. For 2024, Ann Arbor Summer Festival started on June 14 and ended on June 30. For families, I am glad that Top of the Park didn’t start until school was over. I hope that trend continues for 2025.

The 2024 year saw some changes with most movies moving up to a 9:30p start time to better accommodate families. Unfortunately, Sunday night movies were also dropped on the first 2 Sundays of the Summer Festival.

2025 Top of the Park Movie Choices

While the dates and movie details have not yet been released, there is a list of movies to vote for in different categories. The Summer Festival will take votes and their own input into consideration to build the movie schedule.

These are the categories and movie choices. You can vote for up to 3 in each category

• Drama/Thriller – Pick 3
  • Rebel Without a Cause (PG-13, 1955) – 70th Anniversary
  • Spotlight (R, 2015) – 10th Anniversary
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (R, 1975) – 50th Anniversary
  • The Natural (PG, 1984)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha (PG-13, 2005) – 20th Anniversary
  • Interstellar (PG-13, 2014)
  • Devil in a Blue Dress (R, 1995) – 30th Anniversary
  • Mask (PG-13, 1985) – 40th Anniversary
  • The Farewell (PG, 2019)
  • The Namesake (PG-13, 2006)

• Action Adventure
  • Deadpool & Wolverine (R, 2024)
  • Transformers One (PG, 2024)
  • The Batman (PG-13, 2022)
  • John Wick (R, 2014)
  • House of FLying Daggers (PG-13, 2024)
  • The Goonies (PG, 1985) – 40th Anniversary
  • Kung Fu Hustle (R, 2004)
  • Mad Max Fury Road (R, 2015) – 10th Anniversary
  • Chungking Express (PG-13, 1994)
  • Old Boy (R, 2003)

• Comedy/Romance
  • Wedding Crashers (R, 2005) – 20th Anniversary
  • Friday (R, 1995) – 30th Anniversary
  • Shampoo (R, 1975) – 50th Anniversary
  • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (R, 2004)
  • 50 First Dates (PG-13, 2004)
  • Waiting for Guffman (R, 1996)
  • Office Space (R, 1999)
  • Barbershop (PG-13, 2002)
  • The Breakfast Club (R, 1985) – 40th Anniversary
  • The Wedding Banquet (R, 1993)

• Cult/Sci Fi/Fantasy
  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (PG-13, 2024)
  • Primer (PG-13, 2004)
  • Nosferatu (2024)
  • What We Do in the Shadows (R, 2014)
  • After Hours (R, 1985) – 40th Anniversary
  • Back to the Future (PG, 1985) – 40th Anniversary
  • Dune, part 1 (PG-13, 2021)
  • Shaun of the Dead (R, 2004)
  • Pan’s Labyrinth (R, 2006)
  • M3GAN (PG-13, 2022)
• Family/Animated
  • The Princess and the Frog (G, 2009)
  • Inside Out 2 (PG, 2024)
  • The Wild Robot (PG, 2024)
  • The Incredibles (PG, 2004)
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (PG, 2004)
  • Mufasa: The Lion King (PG, 2024)
  • Moana 2 (PG, 2024)
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG, 2015) – 10th Anniversary
  • The Bad Guys (PG, 2022)
  • Toy Story (G, 1995) – 30th Anniversary
• Classics/Camp/Musicals
  • Tick, Tick…Boom! (PG-13, 2021)
  • Wicked (PG, 2024)
  • Walk the Line (PG-13, 2005) – 20th Anniversary
  • The Gold Rush (NR, 1925) – 100th Anniversary
  • Pitch Perfect (PG-13, 2012)
  • Porgy and Bess (NR, 1959)
  • Oklahoma! (G, 1955) – 70th Anniversary
  • Summer of Soul (PG-13, 2021)
  • Mean Girls (PG-13, 2024)
  • Spaceballs (PG, 1987)

Vote on their site now:

2024 Top of the Park Movies by Moonlight Series

Movies are at 9:30p on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The last Sunday also concludes with a movie – Barbie – at 10p.

The 2024 Movies by Moonlight series included both recent films like Barbie and The Color Purple. It also included 20th anniversary showings of Napoleon Dynamite and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The 2024 movie lineup is below:

🎞🍿 Tuesday, June 18, 2024 Napoleon Dynamite 20th Anniversary - Top of the Park Movie
🎞🍿 Wednesday, June 19, 2024 The Color Purple Musical - Top of the Park Movie
🎞🍿 Thursday, June 20, 2024 Sing - Top of the Park Movie
🎞🍿 Tuesday, June 25, 2024 Little Shop of Horrors - Top of the Park Movie
🎞🍿 Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 20th Anniversary - Top of the Park Movie
🎞🍿 Thursday, June 27, 2024 Turning Red - Top of the Park Movie
🎞🍿 Sunday, June 30, 2024 Barbie - Top of the Park Movie

Our Experiences at Top of the Park

We love attending Top of the Park. On nights that we plan to see the movie, we typically have dinner at home and arrive around 9p. Even if we don’t stay for the entire movie, my daughter enjoys watching part of the movie. Since we have many of these movies accessible via streaming or DVD for the older movies, we’ll continue watching the movie the next day.

I’m hoping we can attend a few Top of the Park events this year as a family. We’ll just have to juggle my teen’s social life and job. Or make it a date night.

Snacks are available at Culinary Row.

The movies are also listed on the Ann Arbor Summer Festival Calendar.

Frequently Asked Questions About Ann Arbor Summer Festival Movies

More Top of the Park Events

Our Top of the Park Kids Guide will be updated for 2023 as new announcements are made. We are still waiting on announcements of Culinary Row participants, any additional main stage shows. Kids Zone, Retreat, Spectacles, and other activities.