San Francisco in Cinema: Dogfight
In Dogfight, River Phoenix and Lily Taylor hop off a north bound cable car here at Geary and Powell when the conductor calls, "Powell and Market," a south bound stop a few blocks away. The pair then skips into a restaurant at #1933, more than a dozen blocks away from here in any direction! San Franciscans never miss a trick when it comes to out-of-sequence locations. Favorites are impossible car chases when a driver turns a corner and is suddenly across town. 

In this 1991 coming of age story directed by Nancy Savoca, Phoenix and Taylor meet and fall in love in the hours before the Phoenix character is shipped off to Vietnam in 1963.

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