Was the Father of the Bride House Real? And More Questions....
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Question: I am hoping and praying that you can answer this question for me. I've recently been sucked into repeats of
Father of the Bride and
Father of the Bride II, maybe because I am married and pregnant I'm really relating to it - I especially love the Banks family's house and everything about it. So I'm wondering, is the house on Maple Drive a real house in San Marino, California? Is the house real but located somewhere else? And was the interior a set, like most movies, or an actual house? It looked so authentic. Jessica
FlickChick: The house in
Father of the Bride (1991) and
Father of the Bride II (1995) is real, but it's not on Maple Drive in San Marina; it's on El Molina Avenue in nearby Pasadena. The interiors were shot in the house, but the inside of the house was totally redone by the movie's production design team, up to and including temporary walls that could be pulled down to facilitate setting up dolly tracks for the camera. Apparently the couple who currently own the place are also fans of the movie and got something of a shock when they discovered that the real structural interior of the house didn't look at all like what they'd seen on screen.
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Question: I'm trying to add to my DVD collection, and I'd really like to get a copy of a basketball movie from my childhood starring Robbie Benson and, I believe, Annette O'Toole. I thought the title was
One on One but can't find it anywhere; if you could let me know if it's in distribution, I'd be grateful. John
FlickChick: You have the title right: The trouble is that
One on One, a 1977 feature that was widely called the "
Rocky of basketball movies," isn't available on DVD. You can get used copies on VHS - it was put out by Warner Home Video in 1992 - so if you want it badly enough, you could buy one and burn it to DVD. Although
Spike Lee once told an ESPN interviewer that
One on One was the worst basketball movie he'd ever seen (speaking, presumably, as a rabid fan of the sport and the maker of 1998's
He Got Game), the movie nonetheless has many fans.
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