The Rewrite (2014) Filmed in Brookville, right on the LIU campus.

 The Rewrite (2014)

Filmed in Brookville, right on the LIU campus. 

Starring: Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei


IMDb.com says: An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.


Grant & Tomei walking across the C.W. Post campus.


Although it is filmed on the Long Island campus, the producers wanted to set it on the SUNY Binghamton Campus. It is interesting that they make attempts to ensure that we don’t find out the location change. Frankly, I think they just imported the one Binghamton baseball cap and passed it around to almost every actor-Hugh Grant included-when it was their turn to shoot an exterior scene.

Notice Chris Elliott all done up in Binghamton SWAG. 



Note: At the beginning of the film, Hugh Grant, who takes on the teaching assignment as a screenplay writing professor,  has to choose 10 students, out of 100 who applied, by reading their 30 page drafts. But as the photo suggests, he did it by picking 8 pretty girls and 2 “nerdy” guys. (Don’t worry, he reforms as the story goes on.)


The youngsters included:  Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Nicole Patrick, Bella Heathcote, Emily Morden, Damaris Lewis, Maggie Geha, and Lauren Macklin


Interesting supporting cast, including some veterans you might know.


 

Allison Janney, Chris Elliott, and J.K. Simmons



Note: I watched this movie, on YouTube, to create this post and come up with some screen-shots. Frankly, it isn’t a masterpiece but it wasn’t half bad. Besides, you get to see a bunch of Post-campus exteriors.


Running Time: 1 hour 47 minutes


YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1j6dWpz-ew


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See, they couldn’t hide all the L.I.U. references:

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