The greatest thing about fairy tales is their untiring ability to make meaty moral pronouncements behind an impenetrable shield of fantasy. And so it is with The Princess Bride but the shield is vaporized by naked satirical mechanics and we get on with the story. Admittedly, the story is, well, inconceivable.

You probably know already but at the behest of evil Prince Humperdink, his bride-to-be, the, ahem, Princess Bride, is kidnapped by an international band of ne’er-do-wells including a craven Sicilian, a previously unemployed giant from Greenland, and a Spaniard with one mission: to avenge his father’s death at the hand of a six-fingered man. Inconceivable! Her true love, a still-hot-in-the-eighties Cary Elwes, presumed dead by pirates, comes after her and the slapstick ensues.

Made in the Pythonesque past, when an easy joke still seemed worth telling, The Princess Bride magically retains its innocence and has become a cult film of the highest order. Normally, Popolo rents its films for $125 but not this one. “This is one of our hottest films,” said the fellow at Criterion Films licensing, “this one will be $150.”

And it’s worth every penny, especially because admission is included in the cost of your meal, a special menu prepared by our own handsome stable boy turned fearless pirate, John-Michael.

More about that menu as we get close to the date.

To make a reservation either call the restaurant with a credit card [we’re charging $5 to reserve seats at the movies and this $5 is taken off your prix fixe meal cost of $20. We had too many people with reservations not show up after turning other people away.] Or, the easiest way is to click the BUY TICKETS button, below.

Inconceivable!!!!