Editor’s note: This story was updated on Aug. 23, 2025, to clarify that the Star Drive-In is a diner that shows outdoor movies once a week seasonally. It is not a traditional drive-in movie theater.

After close to 60 years as the region's premiere outdoor movie experience, the Malco Summer Quartet Drive-In in Memphis will go dark for good.

A traditional movie theater has a set of rules, though only one of them is truly the important one: Sit down, turn your phone off, keep your trap shut, and don’t socialize. Looking at you, every ...