No Picnic
(2026 4K Re-release)
A black-and-white love letter to pre-gentrification New York City, Phil Hartman's NO PICNIC captures a remote time and place - the East Village circa 1985, a vibrant, seedy neighborhood populated by musicians, pimps and poets. Macabee Cohen (David Brisbin), whose heyday as a rock musician is long gone, travels the city in a beat-up VW bus, supplying records to local juke boxes. His beloved Lower East Side neighborhood is in turmoil: rampant real estate speculation, tenants on rent strike, art invading the bars - "in my own neighborhood, I felt like I was in the middle of a party that I hadn't been invited to," he says. Mac's personal life is in turmoil, too: his girlfriend dumped him for the Air Force, his neighbor is pressuring him into a green card marriage, his father has left his mother for a younger man, and his brother is sending post cards from his sexual sojourn to all fifty states. Then a mysterious girl appears in his life, and Mac's obsession to find her becomes a quest of self-discovery, too - "I was looking for someone to save," he says, "to save myself."
1 theaters
| Date | Rank | Weekend | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Avg | To Date | Weekend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17-19 | 45 | $12,764 | - | 1 | - | $12,764 | $12,764 | 1 |
| Apr 24-26 | 45 | $8,612 | -32.5% | 1 | - | $8,612 | $37,004 | 2 |
| May 1-3 | 47 | $6,718 | -22% | 2 | +1 | $3,359 | $51,342 | 3 |
| May 8-10 | 38 | $5,867 | -12.7% | 2 | - | $2,933 | $61,145 | 4 |
| May 15-17 | 48 | $3,028 | -48.4% | 1 | -1 | $3,028 | $68,019 | 5 |
| May 22-24 | 37 | $6,870 | +126.9% | 3 | +2 | $2,290 | $78,831 | 6 |
| May 22-25 Memorial Day wknd | 31 | $10,233 | - | 3 | - | $3,411 | $82,194 | - |
| May 29-31 | 42 | $3,050 | -55.6% | 1 | -2 | $3,050 | $88,282 | 7 |
| Jun 5-7 | 31 | $4,240 | +39% | 1 | - | $4,240 | $95,696 | 8 |
