I know where, here, right here; where I live.
The movie has nothing to do with our city. Nothing at all. I can't believe the mayor allowed the moviemakers to use the name of the city. Although I shouldn't complain that much. It does, in a sense. Put us on "the map".
The name of the movie doesn't really have a direct relevance to the city of Twin Falls.
The last name of the conjoined twins is "Falls," as we see in the beginning when Penny has written on a piece of paper "Francis Falls" - the name of her client.
Since Francis Falls has a conjoined twin, the "Twin Falls" refers to Francis and Blake.
Since there is a city named Twin Falls in Idaho, they probably named the film such as a play on words.
My 2 cents.
yeah, though I believe the street the hotel they were going to die in was on was "idaho" street.
shareYes. I'm really sick of all the people who keep saying the movie has nothing to do with the place. I suspect it's just a coincidence. Maybe they did draw inspiration for the name of the movie from the place, or the song, but either way the movie/story has nothing to do with either of them. The twins' surname is Falls, and the motel they're staying at is on Idaho Avenue (I think it was an avenue). Thus Twin Falls Idaho. Plus someone made a good observation in another thread about how the name also applies to the twins' demise, particularly that of Francis, which occurs for much of the story in their motel on Idaho Avenue.
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As you would know, although I don't know if you know the Polish brothers significance of this (neither do I), Twin Falls is about 50 miles from Jackpot, Nevada, which is featured in the Polish brothers' movie Jackpot. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0261755/
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Yes I grew up in Pocatello and Chubbuck.
I grew up In Twin Falls, and I still sort-of live there. About the only movie that I can think of that was even filmed in Twin Falls was Breakfast Of Champions, starring Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte (which was a horible adaptation of the book). I wish there was some significance between the city of Twin Falls, Idaho and the movie, but there isn't, as everyone else has stated.
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"The Twin Falls" in the movie is a play on words. The run down hotel was on Idaho Street in downtown L.A.
shareNow we can have a real Idaho Film Festival:
"Twin Falls Idaho" & "My Own Private Idaho"- a double bill of movies with Idaho in the title but not in the movie. As for movies made in Idaho, well....
30 (2006)
Back to God's Country (1919)
Back to God's Country (1953)
Believe It or Not (1931)
Beyond Warped (2005)
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Breakheart Pass (1975)
Bronco Billy (1980)
Bus Stop (1956)
...aka Wrong Kind of Girl, The (1956)
Civil War Correspondent (1992)
Clocks (2005)
Cowpuncher, The (1915)
Dandelion (2004)
Dante's Peak (1997)
Dark Horse (1992)
Divan vert, Le (2005)
Exit 27 (2002)
Frameup (1993)
Freeriders (1998)
Friendships Field (1995)
Gazillion (2003)
General Sutter (1999)
Ghost Dad (1990)
Grub Stake, The (1923)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
...aka Johnson County Wars (1980)
Hemingway, the Hunter of Death (2001)
I Met Him in Paris (1937)
Ida, the Offbeat Eagle (1964)
Idaho Transfer (1973)
Kundun (1997)
Last Clear Chance (1959)
Light on Lookout Mountain, The (1926)
Make or Break Us (2002)
Man Who Makes the Difference, The (1968)
Mel (1998)
Meloncholy Summer (2001)
Miracle of Todd-AO, The (1956)
Mortal Storm, The (1940)
Most Funniest (2005)
Moving (1988)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
No Socks, No Shoes, Just You... and a Bag of Chips (2000)
Northern Pursuit (1943)
Northward, Ho! (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940)
Not This Part of the World (1994)
Old Chinese Proverb: One Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words, An (1946)
Operation Daylight (2004)
Operation Thanksgiving (2005)
Pale Rider (1985)
Peluca (2003)
Pizza Man vs. the Dude (2004)
Plunge, The (2003)
Powder Heads (1980)
Pure Race (1995)
Ray of Darkness (2005)
Sawtooth (2004)
Shredder (2003)
Silver City (2004)
Ski Party (1965)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Snowed In (1926)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Storm (2002)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
Told in the Hills (1919)
Town & Country (2001)
Trail of the North Wind (1924)
Unconquered (1947)
Whispers in the Wind (2005)
Wicked Men, The (2004)
Wild North, The (1952)
...aka Big North, The (1952)
Wild Wild West (1999)
Wildfire: Feel the Heat (1999)
Winter of Her, The (2004)
Wolves (1999)
Woman's Face, A (1941)
Yellowstone Park: 'Nature's Playground' (1936)
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Wow, thanks for the list! I've been looking for something like this. I grew up in Pocatello and have been wanting to see more films set in Idaho.
shareever heard of google maps?
shareI haven't seen this movie, but I saw the name in a brochure for a film thing the other day, and since I've been to Twin a thousand times (give or take a few), I wanted to see what this was.
Between this and Napolean Dynamite, people are going to get the weirdest ideas about Idaho. :P.
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Umm... okay...?
I live in Filer, (right next to Twin) and I've never heard of this movie once. Why is it that all of the movies that are filmed in/about Idaho turn out to be ridiculous? First, Breakfast of Champions (which was the second worst movie I've ever seen in my life) and then Napoleon Dynamite, which was horribly overdone, and now... some sort of story about conjoined twins?
What's ironic is that Hollywood keeps trying to bring the film industry here to Idaho because of the scenery/cheap production costs. Well, if it were up to me, I'd have them sign something agreeing not to portray Idaho as weird. This is ridiculous. (And yes, I am fully aware that "Twin Falls Idaho" doesn't have anything to do with the actual Twin Falls, Idaho).
The Idaho in the title is in reference to the hotel in which the twins live, the hotel is located on Idaho Avenue. nothing at all to do with the town in idaho.
... and that was the second time I got crabs.
The city has nothing to do with the movie. The main characters are Twins. The last name of the characters is Falls and the street the hotel is on is Idaho. There ya go.
sharepeople are stupid. another thing... if it were refering to Twin Falls, Idaho THERE WOULD BE A COMA AFTER 'FALLS'
... and that was the second time I got crabs.