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Where is their awesome house?


The movie was so-so, but Bill's house in the movie is beautiful! I've searched everywhere for it and can't find it, but have read that the movie was filmed in the St. Louis area. I was hoping it was also filmed in Minnesota where it was supposed to have taken place, but would be interested in checking out the St. Louis area just for that house! If anyone has the 411, I'd love to know! :)

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I would imagine the house is in St. Albans, MO. IMDB lists this as a filming location. It is about 20 miles from my home. It was a very small community in northeastern Franklin County that was bought up by a development company around 30yrs ago. It is now the most "ritzy-ritzy" of the communities in our county. I remember when this film was being shot, I had seen different TV reports that "Jessica Alba was filming a movie in Chesterfield Mall".

If I had any idea that Eckart & Olyphant were in this film before it was shot, I would have jumped all over the opportunity to be an extra. Rick Edlund, the co-anchor to Olyphant's character is a real life, long time news anchor in STL. He was at the NBC affiliate, KSDK ch5 forever, and has been at the WB/CW affiliate, KPLR ch11 for quite some time now.

The fireworks store scene was shot at the intersection of Interstate 44 & MO State Hwy 100. Just a bit of trivia off of the subject: This intersection is where the original Route 66 through St. Louis built in the 1920s converges with the later (and much more popular) re-routing of Route 66 through the St. Louis area.

Here's the Google Maps street view links to some of the locals:

St. Albans Rd.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=st.+albans,+mo&hl=en&ll=38.570079,-90.76767&spn=0.025635,0.038581&sll=38.483023,-90.822558&sspn=0.00645,0.009645&t=h&hnear=St+Albans,+Boles,+Franklin,+Missouri&z=15&layer=c&cbll=38.570459,-90.767851&panoid=ZbCEl9MtbWl5UWRWUm-anw&cbp=12,334.37,,0,4.4

Fireworks Store
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Missouri+100,+Gray+Summit,+MO+63039&hl=en&ll=38.483359,-90.822601&spn=0.051331,0.077162&sll=38.570448,-90.767841&sspn=0.025769,0.038581&oq=hwy+&t=h&hnear=Missouri+100,+Gray+Summit,+Franklin,+Missouri+63039&z=14&layer=c&cbll=38.483144,-90.822573&panoid=6HsEmNugoMT3cr3zhOQ5BA&cbp=12,129.74,,0,5.41

Chesterfield Mall
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=google+maps+chesterfield+mall&hl=en&ll=38.651668,-90.563114&spn=0.006435,0.009645&client=firefox-a&hq=chesterfield+mall&hnear=Union,+Missouri&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=38.651566,-90.563143&panoid=XW1uk01gD113NY0fxUicyw&cbp=12,318.96,,0,1.7

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