It takes a while before the novel makes it clear that we are in Idaho, but I have seen references to the film as taking place in the State of Washington. Is this just a mistake because there are references to Seattle in the dialogue?
"Please! You're not at home!"
I always thought this movie took place in Washington. Now you got me wondering.
shareThe movie was actually filmed in British Columbia. A lot of movies and TV shows have been made there since the eighties. The location of the story was probably changed to accommodate the topography of the film location.
shareYes, I know the the filming was done in B.C. In fact, the film makes me want to visit there, it looks so beautiful.
However, the novel is indeed set in a lakeside town in the mountains, so there's nothing in the B.C. locations that they used that would contradict that.
"You're never going to get me to do what Swedish people do."
The author was raised in Sandpoint, Idaho up north of Coeur d'Alene. The lake there is Pend Orielle (pronounced ponderay)and is clearly the lake intended for Fingerbone.
You come into Sandpoint from south via the township of Sagle across what is know as the "Long Bridge." Across the way as your coming in and looking more or less to the northeast is the other long bridge, the railroad bridge that runs kinda east to west.
Nelson where the movie was filmed, is just over the border in Canada. Folks from north eastern Washington, North Idaho, and Western Montana go up there for holiday. Have done it myself often enough.
My family is from the Portland/Spokane axis and all the place names from Montana to Seattle are places folks in the 50s would have had kin, business, or other reason to visit.
Yeh, they make a reference to Spokane in the movie, about how someone's mother takes her there to buy shoes. Sandpoint to Spokane is only 77 miles. I'm not sure why people question this.
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