the movie is being filmed in brooklyn, I mean Ive never been to ohio so I wouldn't know if it looked just like brooklyn. The thing is that their filming the movie at my job. I work at the brooklyn public library. They start filming tomorrow at 8 am and end at 10pm.
So basically I would get to meet Michelle, Chad (the director) and more.
that would be awesome if reggie miller where there, but at least you get to meet the real cast and director. i dont think the producers hang at the set.
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brooklyn looks nothing like my city in ohio. i live in toledo by the way.
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Ohio is a very diverse state. There are some rural places and farms and stuff but there are also pretty big cities. It not nearly as big or elaborate as brooklyn though.
shareI was interning on the set - which was right down the street from where i was living, this part of brooklyn could look pretty much like any rural town.
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yea i live i toledo too. nothing like brooklyn really exists in ohio. way to be accurate.
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Brooklyn looks nothing like Ohio. I think it will be hard to pull it off.
shareI agree that Brooklyn looks nothing like Ohio. Why don't they just film in Cleveland, Columbus, or Cinci??? I'm from Cinci and go to college near Cleveland. Filming in Brooklyn seems stupid to me.
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Are you sure the poster didn't mean (Old) Brooklyn, Ohio?
It's a suburb of Cleveland.
I mean, Parts of Lakewood (my home town) were used for Cleveland Heights scenes in "American Splendor," and it worked just fine. They just need a location that still looks like it would've in the seventies.
Ooooh, I bet you're right! I forgot all about Old Brooklyn!
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I live in a suburb of dayton ohio and the football coach at my high school has the same name as one of the characters in this movie...Jay Minton
Weird
I just looked at the filming locations and it's Brooklyn New York...
I don't understand, I'm sure it'd be SO MUCH CHEAPER to film in Cleveland... if they needed Cleveland...cause I know that Brooklyn looks nothing like anywhere in Ohio.
WTF! I was raised in Ohio. This is a disgrace. Lets shoot a movie in the Nevada Desert and say its New York!
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Huh, I don't get why they'd go to Brooklyn for Ohio...I live near Cleveland, and I can't imagine them looking too alike.
But who knows, I mean, they shot "A Christmas Story" in Cleveland and used it as Indiana. They can pull it off, I guess.
where is filming locations at on this site. i would love to know where some other movies were filmed and it always it hard for me to find that info out. if anyone can help thanks.
shareI live in the Cincinnati area and I know that one of the bridges that connects Ohio/Kentucky over the Ohio River (the name of the bridge escapes me) was actually used as a prototype for the Brooklyn bridge. I've never been to Brooklyn so as far as I know this could be where the similarities end.
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Are you talking about the Bren Spence (sp?).
I live in the Cincy area, and also agree that it's kind of losing the point to shoot a movie about Ohio in Brooklyn. If they want to capture the true Ohio spirit, they ought to go to Cincy or Cleveland.
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I agree that they should be more authentic, even if it costs more, but if it costs less to do so then it is foolish not to be authentic. Of course, how many people will know the difference? I personally would prefer to see the real Ohio so I can see what Ohio really looks like.
I wonder if they were able to save money by not paying for accomodations for those that live in the area. There are probably hundreds of support staff that are not available in Ohio. I wonder if any of the top actors live in the area; they might have agreed to the part on condition that they could do it from home. I know that Michelle Trachtenberg lives in California, but there might be another (bigger) actor that lives in the New York area that insisted upon doing it in the New York area.
The director Chad Lowe lives in Brooklyn N.Y.
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Here we are talking about a film that is film is set in Ohio, but shot in Brooklyn.
What I find so interesting, and a bit ironic, is a show or film is set in NYC, but shot in LA, or Canada.
Take NYPD Blue - most of the show is shot in LA, and often times you can tell.
Usually, the first giveaway is the the streets, and the lack of filth - especially if it's shot in Canada. Canada is SO clean and beautiful!!
No offense to my fellow New Yorkers, but we'll never be as clean as Canada.
if spiderman 3 can use euclid ave in cleveland for shooting, then this movie should've been filmed in ohio. they obviously don't research what is available to them here and I know for a fact that it is much cheaper to film here than in ny.
shareOld Brooklyn is not a suburb, it is part of the City of Cleveland. Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights are suburbs of Cleveland.
shareI'm actually from Ohio and am now living in Brooklyn right around the corner from where they were filming. They spend a few weeks filming on Westminster and Stratford Streets off of Beverley Road in the Ditmas Park, Flatbush section of Brooklyn. It's a very "suburbia" looking area with lots of big old houses, so it could easily be taken for an Ohio town.
shareI live on the corner of Beverley and Westminster. They definitely filmed the movie there, and me and my roommates now own several pieces of furniture used in the filming (prop sales are amazing... office chair, dresser, end table for $20). We knew they were filming for a long time, but never bothered to look up the movie and find out that Michelle Trachtenberg was in it. I'd have spent a lot more time spying on the set in that case.
Anyway, the neighborhood is all 100 year old Victorian houses, and can look like anywhere you want it to. They filmed it here because New York City offers massive tax breaks for filming in the 5 boroughs. There've been movies shot in the marshes in the Bronx that are set in the middle of nowhere.
I lived and grew up in Brooklyn, OH. It is a middle-class suburb that sits just 5 miles south of downtown Cleveland. Perhaps, IMDB made a mistake in naming the filming location as Brooklyn, NY. However, I think I would have known about a movie being filmed in Brooklyn, especially since the city is only 4 square miles in size.
shareDoes the movie even take place in Ohio? Just because it's in the title, doesn't mean it's set there.
But then again, Chad Lowe is from Dayton...
Man I am sick of people bashing Ohio. And for the people who say that Brooklyn does not look anything like Ohio, ask the people filming Spiderman 3 in Cleveland what they were thinking.
shareExactly what did anyone say that is "bashing Ohio"?
shareIf anyone recalls the film "Lost in Yonkers" (by Neil Simon), it was filmed near Covington, Kentucky -- across the river from Cincy. They made up the entire town to look like Yonkers, New York circa 1942. In fact the town has kept many of the faux fronts as they significantly improved the buildings appearance.
As for it looking like Brooklyn, Cleveland is the way to go.
They also filmed 'A Rage in Harlem' in Cincinnati
shareWell thats retarded..should have been in Cinci lol
shareI was in a film shot in ohio "Horrors Of War". It was super cheap. They saved tons of money. Plus they just passed a loaw to give film makers tax breaks to shoot here. ironically Chad Lowe was one of the people who testified for it
sharewell, if they are filming the slums of brooklyn it is accurate about Toledo. If they want beautiful Ohio maybe try Bowling Green? or maybe Columbus
sharegood idea with the BG or Columbus... except for the fact that i think that would make too much sense for film makers... why not try to shoot a film in the place the movie is about? it would be more accurate.
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Bowling Green is an extraordinarily unattractive town. Nothing picturesque about it. Toledo no doubt has some rundown areas,as does any large city. It has some beautiful areas as well. For example the University of Toledo is without exception the most beautiful college campus in Ohio, and rivals any other campus in the midwest in terms of architecture and landscape.
shareI grew up in BG, and my folks live and work in/near Toledo. I'll agree that Toledo has both unattractive and beautiful areas, but I think that you're wrong about UT. Pick pretty much any small private liberal arts college in OH and you'll find a much nicer picture.
As far as BG, most of it is pretty much as you describe, but it is much nicer now that they've redone downtown. If you want attractive, drive north on Wooster St. from 4 corners. There is gorgeous housing up there toward the hospital.
Personally (biased opinion, though it may be), I think BG/NW Ohio could use a movie or two to draw attention to an often unnoticed part of the state.
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there are more production pros living in the NYC area, so the hotel budget stayed low and these pros just drove to work.
shareohio looks nothing like brooklyn i live there buckeyes rule!
sharemaybe cincinnati or columbus but not the little towns they look nothing like brooklyn
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