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iPic Fort Lee Hudson Lights.

Barrymore Film Center museum, Fort Lee.

AMC Garden State 16 lobby, Paramus.

In 2007, AMC Garden State 16 opened in the enlarged Westfield Gar den State Plaza with 16 screens and 4,900 seats. Today it is still an enter tainment anchor at the busiest mall in New Jersey. As such, the theater should have life as long as people continue to go to the movies (and the mall). A few theaters have introduced dining with movie watching by offering restaurant-style food that is eaten while watching the movie (a small table is adjacent to the seat). The iPic Fort Lee Hudson Lights opened in 2016 with an on-site restaurant that prepares a variety of “dining-in-the-dark” menu options (designed to be eaten quietly without cutlery). This high-end dine in theater offers waiter service, cloth napkins and drinks served in glasses. Guests can order from their phone. You even get a blanket and a pillow with your plush leather seat. In 2017, the AMC Dine-In Shops at Riverside

Roll the credits The house lights are coming up, and our two-part drama has concluded. Today there are nine theaters operating in the county. Even with easy access to movies at home, as long as going to the movies remains a social activity, the silver screen will continue to shine in Bergen County theaters.

9 opened in Hackensack next to Route 4. The dining option is not intended to be high-end. The most numerous complaints in online reviews note that the food has to be ordered ahead of time or at a counter in the lobby. The newest theater in Bergen County is, fittingly, the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, which opened in 2022. Part theater and part museum, it is operated by the Fort Lee Film Commission to honor and celebrate the fact that Fort Lee was the original center of the movie industry (before Hollywood). Visit barrymorefilmcenter.com for more information.

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