YES! Weekly's ten best movies with Triad ties...
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Critical Condition, 1987
This comedy of errors featuring one of America's most wicked satirists began the Triad's run as a contender for location shooting. High Point got the film thanks in large part to the recent completion of Jake Froelich's new film studio and the fact that the city had a vacant hospital. Pryor plays con artist Eddie Lenahan-cum-physician Dr. Kevin Slattery. If that's not enough enticement, the movie also casts Panamanian salsero Ruben Blades. You can imagine the fun.
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Critical Condition, 1987
This comedy of errors featuring one of America's most wicked satirists began the Triad's run as a contender for location shooting. High Point got the film thanks in large part to the recent completion of Jake Froelich's new film studio and the fact that the city had a vacant hospital. Pryor plays con artist Eddie Lenahan-cum-physician Dr. Kevin Slattery. If that's not enough enticement, the movie also casts Panamanian salsero Ruben Blades. You can imagine the fun.
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Lolita, 1997
With Chinqua-Penn Plantation temporarily closed for renovation after its recent purchase by Mocksville's Calvin Phelps from NC State University, would-be tourists might consider renting Lolita, the 1997 adaptation of the literary work by Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, parts of which were shot inside the home of Thomas Jefferson and Beatric Schoellkopf Penn. That is, only if you can handle the extreme creepiness of Jeremy Irons uttering: "She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo… Lee… Ta."
With Chinqua-Penn Plantation temporarily closed for renovation after its recent purchase by Mocksville's Calvin Phelps from NC State University, would-be tourists might consider renting Lolita, the 1997 adaptation of the literary work by Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, parts of which were shot inside the home of Thomas Jefferson and Beatric Schoellkopf Penn. That is, only if you can handle the extreme creepiness of Jeremy Irons uttering: "She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo… Lee… Ta."
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