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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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