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Summary: Exhaustively researched, delightfully presented!
Review: What a wonderful alternative tour guide to DC this book makes! It belongs in every public library of any size, and anyone interested in film or Washington, DC, will prize this book. It is THE definitive guide to movies made in Washington, DC.The book is divided into several sections. The first part provides walking tours of DC neighborhoods in which you can see the film locales of such movies as "The Exorcist," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "All the President's Men," "Enemy of the State," the sci-fi classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "Independence Day," "Pelican Brief," "Bye, Bye Birdie," "Born Yesterday," Spike Lee's "Get On the Bus," "Broadcast News," "True Lies" and countless other familiar movies, new and old. The book also has a list of films made in DC which tells all DC locales used in the film. It even tells you the very second when you can see each locale in the film! If you want to know exactly where Will Smith shopped for ladies' lingerie in "Enemy of the State," this book tells you the location of the shop AND when it happened in the movie. Finally, the book provides countless bits of interesting film trivia in a "fun stuff" section. There you can find such things as locales outside DC which doubled as DC locales (for example, the Baltimore subway has often been used as the DC subway in films) and mistakes made in DC films (like Holly Hunter giving wrong directions to cab drivers in "Broadcast News"). This book is a delight from cover to cover. If you love films, and if you live in or plan to visit Washington, DC, this book is a MUST SEE!
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