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from jackie brown posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The money exchange in Tarantino's Jackie Brown takes place at Torrance, California's Del Amo Mall (or Del Amo Fashion Center® as it is now called), specifically a store called Billingsley's that isn't real. The mall is billed in the movie as the largest indoor mall in the world, although since Jackie Brown takes place in 1995, the Mall of America in Minneapolis had already taken over that distinction in 1992.
Frank Black grew up in the area, and his love song to the Del Amo Mall, "The Hostess with the Mostest," is on his second album Teenager of the Year.
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from bottle rocket posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
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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from bottle rocket posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
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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