Vacation on Location, Midwest : Explore the Sites Where Your Favorite Movies Were Filmed

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! If youve ever wanted to step into your favorite movie, Vacation on Location is the perfect guidebook for you. Celebrate Groundhog Day in Woodstock, Illinois, the very town where Bill Murray relives February 2 over and over in Groundhog Day ; play catch on the same baseball diamond in Dyersville, Iowa, where Field of Dreams took place; or tour the prison in Mansfield, Ohio, where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed. Yes, you can stroll across the actual Bridges of Madison County, have a drink in The Bar seen in Gone Girl, and explore the family home from A Christmas Story. In Vacation on Location, author Joey Green gives readers detailed, chronological, scene-by-scene addresses and maps to visit sites in the Midwest where the most popular films of all time were shot. You will also learn where to see famous props, like the original Bluesmobile, the basketball uniforms from Hoosiers , two miniature flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz , and Ralphies Red Ryder Carbine Action Two-Hundred Shot Range Model Air Riflesafely behind glass in a museum (so you dont shoot your eye out). 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 . Front Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Illinois The Blues Brothers The Breakfast Club The Dark Knight Ferris Bueller’s Day Off The Fugitive Groundhog Day Home Alone My Best Friend’s Wedding Planes, Trains and Automobiles Risky Business The Untouchables Indiana Breaking Away Hoosiers A League of Their Own Rudy Iowa The Bridges of Madison County Children of the Corn Field of Dreams The Straight Story Kansas In Cold Blood Paper Moon Picnic Michigan Anatomy of a Murder 8 Mile Minnesota Fargo Grumpy Old Men The Mighty Ducks Purple Rain A Simple Plan Missouri Escape from New York Gone Girl Up in the Air Nebraska Boys Town Election Nebraska Ohio The Avengers A Christmas Story The Deer Hunter Rain Man The Shawshank Redemption South Dakota Dances with Wolves How the West Was Won North by Northwest Wisconsin Back to School Acknowledgments Bibliography Photo and Map Credits About the Author Back Cover 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