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The
'US Embassy' in 'Mexico': Pasadena City
Hall
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CREDITS
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Shut-in
computer geek Angela Bennett (Sandra
Bullock) is so modern, she orders pizza online!
How cool is that? 1995 suddenly seems so long ago.
She finds her identity disturbingly vulnerable to electronic
manipulation in this Hitchcockian thriller, set mainly
in LA,
though it opens in Washington
DC, where the homophobic politician offs himself
at Haines Point,
DC, at
the southernmost tip of West Potomac Park on the Tidal
Basin.
The rather creepy sculpture rising out of the ground
is Seward Johnsonís ëThe Awakeningí.
Bennettís home is alongside the cosily hippy-chic canals
of Venice on the
coast of LA,
but her holiday in ëMexicoí isnít really such a getaway:
She meets too-charming Jack Devlin (Northam), not in
ëCozumelí but at Frenchmanís
Cove, Palos Verdes, south of LA,
while the beach bar, where she gets her purse stolen,
was built at Paradise Cove,
north of Malibu (the scarf is the first of several Hitchcock
allusions –this one to Notorious).
The ëUS Embassyí, where Bennett unwisely takes on the
I.D. of ëRuth Marxí to get back into the States, is
the central fountain court of Pasadena
City Hall, 100 North Garfield Avenue. The
building has been used in loads of films, dating back
to Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in 1941, where
it became the palace of Adenoid Hynkel. It stood in
for Beverly Hills City Hall (which looks nothing like
it) in Beverly Hills
Cop II.
Bennett's car disappears from LAX,
Los Angeles International Airport, as life just gets
worse.
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Bennett
evades Devlin on the Loof carousel, Santa Monica
Pier
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A couple more Hitch references: attempting to meet up
with fellow computer nerd Cyberbob on Santa Monica
Pier, Bennett evades the devilish Devlin on the
Looff Carousel (famous from The Sting), in a
sequence shamelessly lifted from the climax of Hitchcock's
Strangers On A Train.
Sleeping in her car, on Santa
Monica Boulevard at 12th Street sheís woken,
just as was Janet
Leigh in Psycho,
by a sinister cop in shades.
The succeeding rainswept car chase is along Templin
Highway, north of Los Angeles. Bennett finally
tracks down the net conspiracy to San
Francisco, where the HQ of the ëCathedralí corporation
is 1 Post Street
at Market Street.
The climactic ëPan-Pacific Computer Conventioní used
a real Apple convention at the Moscone
Center, Howard Street between Third and Fourth
Streets in San
Francisco, though the final chase through the
aerial walkways (this time inspired, not by Hitchcock,
but by Alan J
Pakulaís The Parallax View)
is back in LA,
in the Los Angeles Convention
Center, Figueroa Street, downtown (where,
yes, The Parallax Viewís
climax was filmed).
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE NET
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ASSOCIATED
FILMS |
The Santa
Monica pier is seen in The
Sting, Inside Daisy Clover
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