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Where was Twilight filmed?

1998 film, directed by Robert Benton.

  • Santa Monica

The story is set in Mexico, about 1,255 miles (2,019 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Mexico
Filmed in
Santa Monica
Distance
About 1,255 miles (2,019 km) between Mexico and the nearest filming location.
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About Twilight

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Released
1998
Director
Robert Benton
Cast
Paul NewmanSusan SarandonGene HackmanReese WitherspoonStockard ChanningJames GarnerGiancarlo EspositoLiev SchreiberMargo MartindaleJohn Spencer
Genre
Neo-noirDramaCrimeThriller

Aging private detective Harry Ross, an ex-cop, is working on a case to return 17-year-old runaway Mel Ames to her parents' home.

The plot picks up two years later when Ross lives in Southern California in the guest quarters of Mel's wealthy parents, Jack and Catherine Ames.

It turns out to be the first development in a series of twists and turns in a 20-year-old case involving the disappearance of Catherine's ex-husband.

Famous lines from Twilight

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto LT, St 49.Twilight
  • George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy, Bk n 22.Twilight
  • Edwin Arnold, Light of Asia, Book II, line 466.Twilight
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, St 29.Twilight
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act VI, Sc. 1, line 221.Twilight

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