Comedian/playwright Mike Birbiglia recounts a particularly intense somnambulatory experience in his film Sleepwalk with Men, where he jumped through the second-story window of his hotel room at this La Quinta Inn in Walla Walla, WA.

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Dignan, Anthony and Bob hide out at this unnamed Hillsboro motel after the bookstore heist in Wes Anderson's first movie Bottle Rocket. The motel has changed ownership several times since filming, but it's currently a Days Inn.

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Hinckley Cold Storage, the cold storage facility (currently the Texas Ice House) that is the site of the botched robbery at the end of Bottle Rocket, is located in downtown Dallas. Turns out Wes Anderson fixture Kumar isn't so good at safe-cracking.

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Although the city where it is supposed to take place is never named, the Coen brothers filmed their 1990 movie Miller's Crossing in New Orleans.

Barton Arms, the name of Tom's apartment, is a nod to Barton Fink which they wrote during a three-week break they took while writing the Miller's Crossing screenplay. This is the exterior filming location only. The apartment interior was shot on a set.

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In WarGames, the phone booth scene where David calls Jennifer after he escapes from NORAD was filmed outside of Darrington, Washington (even though he says he's in Colorado). That's Whitehorse Mountain in the background. The phone booth itself is of course long gone, and the Exxon station across the street is now a Shell. The one thing that stuck in my mind when I saw this movie as a kid was how he got a free call just by using a soda can pull tab. Somehow I doubt that would work.

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