The Saloon, 1232 Grant Avenue,
is SF's oldest bar. |
Mortal
Mark Ruffalo and ghost Reese Witherspoon share
a flat at 1660 Mason Street at Green in director
Mark Waters' Just Like Heaven. Though it's not very good, San Franciscans
have great affection for the 2005 romantic
comedy because it was shot during a period when few films were being made
here, and because it features the affable Witherspoon. (If you can get past
a scene in which Witherspoon
inhabits Ruffalo's body at the Saloon in North Beach -
a scene derivative of "All of Me" - you may be able
to watch the entire picture.) To their credit, Waters and company sought
to create a "San Francisco as a character in the movie" movie.
The odd DVD cover art sums up their mixed
results. Aside from the Mason Street digs, neighborhood locations include
the Abandoned Planet bookstore at 518 Valencia, Moose's,
and the house at 3857 20th Street
overlooking Dolores Park. Other featured landmarks
and locations include usual suspects
Bay Bridge, Coit
Tower, Caffe Trieste, Washington
Square, Sutro Tower, and the Golden
Gate Bridge.
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