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Our first day of shooting was done at the Lucas County Courthouse in downtown Toledo. Judge James Bates allowed us to invade his courtroom for the day. It was there that we shot the scenes of Brian's sentencing.
In the afternoon of the first day at the conclusion of our shoot in the courthouse, we crossed the river into East Toledo and shot the auto parts store scene at the Napa Auto Parts store on Main Street.
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Day two found us bright and early at Rosie's Pizza on Heatherdowns in the south end of Toledo. Rosie's manager Russ Ballew was very helpful in accomodating us before his lunch rush. The scene shot there was simple but very effective and the decor in the restaurant really lent itself to the movie well. |
| We took a break after wrapping at Rosie's and started up late that same evening at Boogie Records in the Westgate Shopping Center. Co-owner Debbie Marinik and her dog, Nigel, let us take over for about 6 hours that night to shoot Kelly's place of employment. |
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Our third day of shooting was back downtown. This time, though, we were outside. We shot our alley fight scene in the alley behind the Spitzer Building. For as long as I could remember, I had always thought that this alley was the perfect alley for a fight scene. And it was. We had tremendous help and support this particular evening. We had hired two Toledo police officers to handle security for us that night. We also had the use of a Toledo Police patrol car which pulls into the alley to break up the fight in our second scene in the movie. We were able to affect a wet look with the use of J's Water. Finally, since we were spending an entire evening there, we needed a place to answer calls of nature and to lay out our craft services table. Mark Bergstrom of the former Toledo Color Labs stayed up all night with us and allowed us to not only make our encampment in his store but also allowed us to tie into his electrical for our power needs. |
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