Tube City Almanac

February 25, 2009

'Adventureland' Trailer Debuts

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A trailer has been released for "Adventureland," the movie that filmed during October 2007 at Kennywood Park and other locations around the Mon-Yough area. (The scene in the restaurant, for example, was shot inside Jodi B's --- formerly the Plaza --- on Ardmore Boulevard in Forest Hills.)

It's a comedy about a college student who has to find a summer job and winds up working as a games booth attendant at an amusement park.

The editor of Tube City Almanac doesn't need to see this movie, because he lived it. He even worked for a couple of months at Bonanza, the shooting game where (in the trailer) one of the patrons throws up.

The movie, directed by Greg Mottola ("Superbad," "Undeclared," "Arrested Development"), opens March 27.

At least the Mon Valley will come off better in this movie than in another film debuting this year --- "The Road," which used Braddock and McKeesport as the setting for a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

Come to think of it, I grew up here during the '70s and '80s, so I lived that movie, too. I'm pretty sure this picture --- supposedly a still from "The Road" --- actually shows laid-off steelworkers from my street in Liberty Borough going out to get their government cheese in 1984.

(Tip o' the Tube City hard hat to Dan Speed.)






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