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the johnson inn
from beautiful girls posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
If Hollywood stopped making movies about high school reunions and the big city guy returning to his small hometown, I don't think anyone would care. Stillwater, Minnesota was turned into Knights Ridge, Massachusetts, the fictional small hometown in Beautiful Girls. Tommy (Matt Dillon), Paul (Michael Rapaport) and two other guys whose faces (but not their names) you would recognize have never left this fictional small town and drink frequently at The Johnson Inn.
The Marine General Store on the St. Croix north of Stillwater was used as the exterior of their favorite bar. The interior scenes were shot at Winfield Potters, a former restaurant in St. Anthony Main in Minneapolis.
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from beautiful girls posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
Most of the 1996 comedy (at least I think it was supposed to be a comedy) Beautiful Girls was filmed in Stillwater, Minnesota a.k.a. the fictional town of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts. Stillwater is about thirty miles east of Minneapolis on the St. Croix River, but early in the movie Paul (Michael Rapaport) proposes to his girlfriend while she is working at Minneapolis's bowling alley / restaurant Bryant Lake Bowl... she tells him no.
view full location details...jim’s coffee shop & bakery
from untamed heart posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
I attempted to watch Untamed Heart recently because it was filmed in Minneapolis, but I only lasted about forty minutes. Christian Slater plays someone who is possibly autistic (didn't watch long enough to find out if they explained him at all) who works at a diner and falls in love with his coworker Marisa Tomei. The diner, Jim’s Coffee Shop & Bakery, used to be located on Central in northeast Minneapolis near downtown.
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from the hunger games posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The Mellark Bakery where Peeta works in Katniss's flashback in The Hunger Games is the old company store from the abandoned Henry River Mill Village near Hildebran, North Carolina. The village was the company town for the Henry River Manufacturing Company from 1904 until 1977 when the cotton mill burned down. The boarding house and the 35 worker houses in the rest of the village were used as Katniss's district 12 slum from the beginning of the movie.
In April of 2012, the 83 year old property owner put the land up for sale for 1.4 million.
el segundo high school
from wargames, superbad, joe dirt posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
Besides being that place where Q-Tip left his wallet, El Segundo, California is also home to El Segundo High School which has been used as a filming location for dozens of tv shows and movies including WarGames (as Snohomish High School), Superbad (as Clark Secondary School), Joe Dirt, 90210, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and 24.
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