Lee Theater

My wife grew up in the area and told me about this place when we first started dating. We ended up moving back about a year ago and decided to make the drive from Moses Lake and check it out. The prices for movie tickets are lower than at the Moses Lake theater and they have booths where you can sit and enjoy a pizza or burger. The pizza is not the best I’ve ever had, but it’s up there. Their burgers are alright, but they serve them with chips instead of fries like I expected. The most inconvenient part is when you order your pizza, you pay at one counter, but have to order your drinks at another counter. It’s a small inconvenience. I haven’t gone back to the Moses Lake theater since discovering this little gem

love this theater so much! I grew up in a small town where we only had 1 screen so the fact that there is only 3 doesn’t bother me. The best part is no matter what screen you are viewing you can sit in a booth and get pizza delivered to you. How can it get any better than that??? It does though… the menu offers more than just pizza, there was hamburgers and hot wings too. The theater was decently clean and I loved the atmosphere. The employees are high school students but they are extremely friendly. The ticket prices are reasonable too. If you choose this theater it will be a hard movie experience to beat.
Tip: If you are ordering pizza get to the movie a little bit earlier about 15 min. So you can get your pizza at the start of the movie. You can also call in and reserve a booth.

Besides the pizza you can eat in the theater, there is no reason to go here.
It is dirty… I mean sticky, stuffy, dusty and old. Broken seats. Stains on the screen from soda (or??) being deposited and never cleaned off. All three movies start at the same time (stagger start times??) so the line for snacks is a mile long. The teenagers that work there are slow like you would not believe. I was laughing out loud at the slowness… no lie. It was as if it was deliberate.
Once I got my snacks, (popcorn and soda only… the candy was bulk stuff (seriously…like from Win Co) put in bags by hands that may or may not have been washed) I watched pizzas arrive well into the start of the movie, obviously disruptive of my movie enjoyment when people behind me yell, «Can we get more napkins?» This place made me laugh out loud, and that was fun, but seriously, you own this place? It is obvious you dont care and that is too bad.

They always have new releases playing. The prices are typically high. Three screens to choose from. They also serve pizza that your family can eat in the movie theater. The place is OK and better then expected for a small town. You will enjoy yourself.

They only have 3 screens, 2 of which are smaller but Screen #1 is the best, they have a few booths that you can reserve & get pizza.
The only time we go is if a good movie is showing on screen 1, otherwise it’s not worth it to us.
They have the same problem as most movie theaters do these days, it’s not an experience anymore. Most people would rather wait till it comes out on DVD, but if you do watch a movie on screen 1 you will get more of an experience than at other movie theaters.

Fun! Pizza & a movie! Pizza was decent: thin crust, veggie w/​Canadian bacon. Order pizza ahead, Reel Pizza will receive a booth for you too.

It is very sad to see how far the Lee Theater has declined. I used to live in Ephrata several years ago and this theater was a great place to go, clean, well maintained, and a gem for the city of Ephrata. I have recently moved back to Ephrata and last Saturday went out for a nice evening with my wife. We enjoyed a nice dinner at a newer bistro in town then went to the Lee to attempt to see a movie.
Upon entering the Lee I had to wait at the ticket counter for either the girl behind the concession stand to quit texting on her phone or for the guy behind the pizza counter to quit slirping down his soda in the food prep area. After paying for our tickets we proceeded to buy some concessions. We still had to wait for the girl behind the counter to stop texting, once she did we went on up to the theater and tried to find the cleanest seats that were also not broken. While waiting for the movie to begin, we had to tolerate a group of people, with a child, that most likely crawled out from under a rock somewhere in town, or just arrived in town after being chased out of some other town. They were dead set on talking loud, assuming everyone else was interested in what they had to say, and also how they were sneaking alcohol into the theater and mixing it in a soda bottle (they were late 20’s early 30’s, with a child). Then about 15 junior high kids came in and continued to run up and down the isles and crawl all over the stair banister and seats and be extremely loud. This was, at first, not a big deal, as it was expected behavior from kids this age; however once the movie began their noise level increased, despite the requests of the older couple behind us, and from the very direct request from my wife. Their noise level was loud enough to make hearing the movie next to impossible, and at minimum not acceptable for other paying customers to be subjected to.
After of several minutes of waiting to see if the kids in the back and the obnoxious socially challenged adults in the front would settle down, we ended up leaving the theater and requesting our money back. We shared our experience with the young main refunded our money; however being that he is most likely not invested in the success of the Lee Theater nor the enjoyment of its patrons, I am confident our complaint will never make it to the manager or owner of the Lee, therefore this online review.
My hope is for the Lee to regain its ability to be the gem that it can be for the City of Ephrata. This old theater is deserving of care and maintenance as many like it have been torn down or only exist in the larger cities. Rules and policy need to be enforced so that all people can spend money and time at the Lee to enjoy movies and for it not to just become a trashy and dirty place people drop their kids off for a couple of ours and rein unchecked at the expense of other respectful people and the the theater.
Dear Lee Theater, please protect and be a responsible steward of this beautiful theater!

If I could give this place negative stars I would. My husband and I went to this theater since it was the closest one around to see a movie that we were both anticipating greatly. Ick! What a let down. We got to the theater and there were about 8 teenagers hanging around the ticket booth talking about their personal lives. We went into our theater and my sandal literally stuck to the floor. The floor looked like it hadn’t been swept or mopped in ages which didn’t make sense to me since they have more than enough employees who seemed to have nothing else going on except to hang around the ticket booth.
We sat in what appeared to be the cleanest chairs in the place… which isn’t saying much and waited in silence for the movie to start. It felt like we were in a dirty inner city rec center basement. A guy came in with some popcorn and sat in front of us. He plopped it down and *boom* his chair broke, popcorn went everywhere, it was a scene. That was the final straw and after torturing ourselves for what seemed like hours we got up and left before the movie started. We could not stomach being in this place for one more second. DO NOT GO TO THIS THEATER! Save your money and go somewhere where you can actually sit comfortably and enjoy the movie, not worry about what kind of diseases you might be picking up in this dump!

Remember going to Karate Kid in 1984? The ton of people, the smell of popcorn the sticky grimy floors. You did not know what stadium riser seating was and teenagers making out? This is what you get with the Lee. Its pure Nostalgia.
This place even lets you eat pizza in the theater with table like seating. Not that the pizza is any good, but table seating is something you don’t see in Washington much.