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 | Weekly | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Avg | To Date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17-23 | 42 | $28,392 | - | 1 | - | $28,392 | $28,392 | 1 |
| Apr 24-30 | 40 | $16,232 | -42.8% | 1 | - | $16,232 | $44,624 | 2 |
| May 1-7 | 39 | $10,654 | -34.4% | 2 | +1 | $5,327 | $55,278 | 3 |
| May 8-14 | 38 | $9,713 | -8.8% | 2 | - | $4,856 | $64,991 | 4 |
| May 15-21 | 40 | $6,972 | -28.2% | 1 | -1 | $6,972 | $71,963 | 5 |
| May 22-28 | 33 | $13,271 | +90.3% | 2 | +1 | $6,635 | $85,232 | 6 |
| May 29-Jun 4 | 42 | $3,172 | -76.1% | 1 | -1 | $3,172 | $88,404 | 7 |
