State & Main

....in hollywood. Look it up on IMDB. It's a funny movie, with some language, but the reason why I re-watched it was because of the real life implications.

...in real life.......It's School & Union. The same intersection. Jon and I lived on Union Street, then moved around the corner onto South Street.

.....oh the irony......

State and Main: "A movie crew invades a small town..."

Manchester by the sea: A small town that is invaded by a movie crew...

When I first moved to Manchester-by-the-sea, someone told us to watch this movie, because a lot of it was filmed downtown, and we would recognize a lot in it. We did and, low and behold, the corner we lived on was the prominent corner in the movie that the film was named after. Our apartment was in lots of shots.

It was, and still is, odd to see where we lived, every day every night. Where we first had a home together, in a movie. It did explain why the "front" of our apartment building (two old homes that were joined by a central staircase then chopped up into small apartments) is a different color than the back. We lived in the front one, painted olive green for the movie, and the back one is still yellow.

So, rent it...and laugh. Because, not only was it about a film crew that invades a small town, while living there, a movie crew invaded our small town. That resulted in the movie "The Proposal". Another movie to watch, laugh.

....Oh the greater irony....in the film, the town is in VT, where Jon grew up.