![]() ![]() Not surprisingly, the landscapes here are no stranger to the big screen, having previously featured in Nicholas Ray’s cult 1954 Western Johnny Guitar. The Canyon Portal Hotel, which stood at 280 North Highway 89a, no longer stands. ![]() In no time at all, they're driving through – erm – Texas (for what seems to be about four frames of film) and on to the spectacular red sandstone formations of Oak Creek Canyon, near Sedona, Arizona. The LaRussos trundle off on their journey along Franklin Avenue, between Hamilton Street and Harrison Avenue. You may remember Ironbound as the site of the first appearance of alien war machines in Steven Spielberg's 2005 update of War Of The Worlds, with Tom Cruise. There's a glimpse of the girdered Jackson Street Bridge, crossing the Passaic to link Harrison with Ironbound. Their neighbourhood is the town of Harrison, on Essex Fwy (280) across a bend of the Passaic River, northeast of Newark itself. When Lucille LaRusso ( Randee Heller,) and her son Daniel ( Ralph Macchio) leave the industrial heartland of Newark for the palm trees of California, that really is New Jersey, just for those few opening moments. Basically, Rocky remade as a teen movie, and by the same director, too. ![]()
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