Vacation on Location, Midwest
Explore the Sites Where Your Favorite Movies Were Filmed
by Joey Green
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If you’ve ever wanted to step into your favorite movie, Vacation on Location, Midwest is the perfect guidebook. Author Joey Green gives readers detailed, chronological, scene-by-scene breakdowns with addresses and maps to visit sites in the Midwest where the most popular films of all time were shot. With this book as your guide, you can turn these excursions into full-scale vacations or quirky side trips to enhance your appreciation of your favorite movies—or even recreate a scene, starring you.
Films include:The Blues Brothers, Home Alone, The Breakfast Club, Hoosiers, A Christmas Story, A League of Their Own, Fargo, Paper Moon, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Purple Rain, Field of Dreams,The Shawshank Redemption, The Fugitive, The Untouchables, Groundhog Day, and 29 more!
About the Author:
Joey Green is the author of more than 50 books, including Last-Minute Survival Secrets, Last-Minute Travel Secrets, and Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose. He has written for Rolling Stone, National Lampoon, Time, and more.
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"...impressively detailed..." —Daily Herald
See the publisher website: Chicago Review Press
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