Mainstream Hollywood Films of NJ Towns (Orange, Long Branch: hotel, house, bank)

[kalim2008]

Originally Posted by Chubbyhugs

I don't know if anyone saw the movie Broken Flowers with Bill Murray (probably released 2005-ish). He's supposed to be traveling the country to find an ex-lover and instead if you know Rt. 4, he's just driving back and forth on Rt. 4 in Fort Lee almost the entire time!

Hehehe...

If you borrow Guess Who, near the beginning of the film it shows Ashton and his girlfriend in a taxi going to her father's home. If you look out the windows, you'll see that the taxi is actually going repeatedly over and over along a few blocks (you can see the same building fronts over and over again for maybe 10 minute driving time)

[fischfan13]

Strangers With Candy was filmed at Bayonne High School.
War Of The Worlds...Bayonne.
Mortal Thoughts with Demi Moore was shot three blocks from where I grew up, in Bayonne.

[BrianG]

Rahway has had a few

The last being
the battle of the bands scene from the movie
The School of Rock
That was filmed in the Union County Arts Center in Rahway

Rahway Rising

[JackedInPrinceton]

Beer League and Just Friends

[veuvegirl]

One True Thing was shot in Maplewood

[tahiti]

Originally Posted by fischfan13

Strangers With Candy was filmed at Bayonne High School.
War Of The Worlds...Bayonne.
Mortal Thoughts with Demi Moore was shot three blocks from where I grew up, in Bayonne.

and Hysterical Blindness


and to the person who mentioned Elisabeth Shue - she grew up in West Orange.

[jstar41]

a couple of scenes from the SOPRANOS were shot in Elizabeth.. also last fall there were filming some movie at the waterfront..

[veuvegirl]

Elisabeth Shue is actually a Maplewood gal. Her and her brother Andrew went to Columbia High School; where they just shot the movie Gracie.

[recycled]

Originally Posted by wileynj

What baout that one..The Depot I think it was called - with the little person who lived in the train depot. That was filmed in Rockaway - Green Pond Road and the bar he was hanging out in is that one in the Borough... can't think of the name of it but it's right there by the tracks - little place.

That film had many scenes around Newfoundland, NJ right off highway 23. I lived in Boonton in the 1990s, and used to bicycle ride around all the back roads north of there.

[Dagrecco1982]

A friend of mine who works for Rahway Hospital caught a glimpse of Mickey Rourke while they were filming The Wrestler. He recalls Mickey being heavily make-uped and a bunch of destitute extras sitting in the waiting room.