“The Polar Express” First Train to Stop in Boone since 1940; App Theatre Screens Holiday Family Film on December 13
December 7, 2022 BOONE, NC – Not since the historic flood of 1940 forced the closure of the Linville River Train Station has a train stopped in downtown Boone, N.C. That fact will change at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 13 when Tom Hanks and “The Polar Express” steam into the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country for its inaugural Holiday Family Film Series. “The Polar Express” is a 2004 computer-animated fantasy adventure film co-written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 children’s book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. The movie features human characters animated using live-action and motioncapture CGI animation. It tells the story of a young boy who, on Christmas Eve, sees a mysterious train bound for the North Pole stop outside his window and is invited aboard by its conductor. The boy joins several other children as they embark on a journey to visit Santa Claus preparing for Christmas.