I'm going to see this movie filmed in my hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY tonight, downtown Saratoga! There have been several movies filmed here, I remember seeing Robert Redford going to Sperry's on Caroline St. for lunch during the filming of the Horse Whisperer. Billy Bathgate was filmed here, too. When I was younger, (13) living in Cohoes, NY, I sat in Meryl Streep's folding actress chair under a tree while they filmed Ironweed. I had no idea who she/they were, but I remembered her name and William Kennedy's name. I recall, being the punk kid that I was, my friend and I were really sweating her unguarded box of donuts.
Anyway, none of the films in Saratoga were made by locals (that I knew or know of), Aftermath was made by a former high school classmate of mine Tom Farone, from what I recall, he lived and breathed hip hop, he's the one who got me into EPMD, and was just basically always a cool dude. I think the Farone's have quite a local history, to say the least, I know that since forever, A.J. Farone supplied Molson beer to most of the Eastern US.
Tony Danza and Chris Penn star in the flick, Chris died during the filming, so there was a slight delay. (Seems like it's been ten years) Anthony Micheal Hall is in it too, who, during the time of the filming, I ran into in Saratoga one afternoon, or shall I say, he almost ran me over one afternoon. I was crossing the street, and had a guy in a little 2 door Miata shriner car looking thing, with the topdown, come flying up to me as I'm crossing the crosswalk. I looked down at him with the stink eye, and recognized it was obviously an aged Anthony Michael Hall, and some woman. I still walked on like f*ck you, but, I'll admit, I know every word on the script to Weird Science. (I shoulda got all Chet on him. haha)
Looks like 80's actors in a 90's flick...and I'm game.
I'm not much for movie reviews but, maybe in the comments.....
Well, that was a strange ending, saw Tom there, it was a pretty full crowd...
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