Sentences with phrase «fictional town as»

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The fictional town of Agloe, New York, was invented as a copyright trap by cartographers to help track infringement.

ITV's Coronation Street is to feature Daniel Brocklebank as «Rev Billy», who joins character Emily Bishop's church; St Mary's in the fictional town of Weatherfield.

But more than that, it's both the common dining table and grocer to the kind of eclectic city where fictional boxer Rocky Balboa is deemed as worthy of a statue as Founding Father Ben Franklin, an oversized small town where South Philly blue - collar workers and Northern Liberties hipsters alike pride themselves on being plainspoken connoisseurs of worthy eats, and will endlessly debate whether DiNic's roast pork with provolone and broccoli rabe has supplanted the cheesesteak as Philly's favorite sandwich.

Meanwhile the Steel Belt setting affords additional echoes of Springsteen-esque blue collar life as Abrams tints in the personal problems and concerns of his fictional families (Super 8 was shot in Weirton, West Virginia, the same town Michael Cimino used for The Deer Hunter).

Official Premise: WELCOME TO INSPIRATION Set in the small fictional American southern town of Mountain Brook, «Welcome To Inspiration» follows a diverse cast of characters as they struggle in their lives.

Robert Patino's script drops us into Cut Bank, Montana, here envisioned as a composite of the fictional universes of Twin Peaks and Fargo, where thrice we're shown a roadside totem proclaiming the town as the «coldest spot in the nation.»

A little town in Wisconsin is earning superhero status as searches for Wakanda Park in Menomonie have surged by 55 %, with fans seeking out the fictional African kingdom of Black Panther.

Set in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Agrestic, California — a town remarkably lenient on marijuana use — Weeds follows Nancy Botwin (Mary - Louise Parker), an affluent single mother of two, as she learns the business of selling drugs.

The dark indie comedy «Middle Man» again casts O'Heir as a pitiable figure, shifting small towns from the fictional Pawnee, Ind., to Peoria, Ill., but otherwise keeping the «Kick me» sign pinned to his back.

Harper Lee's fictional Maycomb, AL, was generalized enough to register as a beautiful evocation of small - town life — yet specific enough to capture the uglier side of Deep South racism, bubbling just under the surface.

Gene Evans (from The Steel Helmet) stars as the (fictional) journalistic genius who starts his own paper and introduces headlines, bylines, editorial cartoons, and the mechanized printing press and manages to raise enough money to build the pedestal for the Statue Of Liberty while fighting off the attempts of the rich woman owner of the biggest paper in town to destroy him.

It's set in a fictional Midwestern town that looks like a fine place to visit, comes across as a terrible place in which to live, and ultimately feels about as authentic as any real small town in the middle of the country.

Levels are bite - sized chunks of the fictional town of Arkham, which often appeared in Lovecraft's work, mixed with a few realistic elements, such as Tesla's Wardenclyffe facility.

Dragon Eyes stars MMA fighter Cung Le as Hong, a familiar kind of principled genre - movie loner: new to a lawless town (the fictional city of St. Jude), ready to take down a corrupt lawman (Peter Weller) and the rival gangs who pay him for protection.

A Royal Night Out, a fictional account of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret's night out on the town to celebrate VE Day in 1945, is as lightweight and schmaltzy as it sounds.

Described by Byrne as being like «60 Minutes on acid,» True Stories presents itself as a documentary portrait of the (fictional) town of Virgil, Texas, with Byrne himself as the nameless investigative journalist dispatched there — quite possibly from Mars.

Saint Odd By Dean Koontz Bantam • $ 9.99 • ISBN 9780345545893 Odd Thomas returns to the fictional California desert town of Pico Mundo in what as billed as the «final adventure» for Koontz's popular character.

And then Wolf is all farm country, way out east in a fictional town in a fictional county but just as «real» as they come.

Touch of Evil was filmed almost entirely in Venice, which Welles chose as a stand - in for the fictional Mexican border town where the story takes place.

With the game's focus on a fictional doomsday cult in Montana, Ubisoft sent actor and comedian Danny Wallace to trapse around the Sussex town — the logic being that East Grinstead is home to the UK centre for Scientology, as well as hosting a number of other religious groups such as the Rosicrucian Order and Opus Dei.

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is set in 12th century England and follows characters like Jack, Aliena and Prior Phillip as they construct a revolutionary gothic cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge and put their town on the map economically, socially and politically.

As many commentators have noted, this evolution in Chang's artistic practice began around the time of her 2005 film, Shangri - La, which uses documentary and Surrealistic techniques to recreate the eponymous fictional town.

In Welcome To Saxnot artist Scott King proposes the new town of Saxnot as an invention of the fictional, Butlin's inspired brand «Britlin's».

Coming off the success of his ongoing project Jimmy's Thrift: A New Davonhaime Thrift Store (2016 — present)-- a thrift shop in a fictional town based on an amalgamation of the most densely populated black cities in America — Mohammed continues to make work that focuses on black excellence as a way to adumbrate the social ills of racist America, without losing sight of our present reality.

These days that business - friendly town is as awash in money and power as the fictional J.R. Ewing ever was.

As a 15 - minute edit of the artist's forthcoming feature length film, Piercing Brightness, «Trailer» is a spliced - together, fictional sci - fi mash - up that depicts an alternate universe of cultural collisions occurring in the factual town of Preston.

As the new junior deputy of the fictional town of Hope County in the not - so - fictional Montana, you have to defend the residents from the Project at Eden's Gate, a radical religious cult slowly taking over the town through manipulation and violence.

The video, as posted on the Xbox YouTube channel, is a traditional 2D animated clip, featuring the fictional town of Williamette, Colorado decorated for the holidays, and shoppers lining up to buy their gifts at the city's Mega Mall.

In the horror adventure game, you will play as Calvin — which may or may not be a lie according to the press release — as you solve puzzles, run, and hide in the fictional and nightmarish town of Baervox, New Hampshire.