Why did I get married??

We went to Whistler about a year ago with friends Sean and Karen for some Canadian skiing. The trip was excellent - full of lots of fun stories and great snow. One day as we were heading from the slopes to our mountainside condo, we literally walked through a movie set right outside our building. We recognized Janet Jackson with her hair in a bun and wearing a long fur coat. We watched for a while while they reset the scene over and over for different shots. Later in the day, they moved the filming inside a shop, lighting it from the outside. Here's the view from our condo balcony of the night-turned-to-day inside shot: I looked it up when we got home and found out that it was a movie called "Why did I get Married" due out in the fall. We're too cheap to see it in the theater, but we rented the DVD and watched it this weekend. The story was entertaining but not earth shattering. I'm not sure we would have watched it if we weren't looking for "our scene" to show up. But it wasn't a waste of an evening.

So the movie was set at a cabin in Colorado. The women in the group head out to go shopping, and there's a very brief scene with them walking outside the shop and then a bit more when they are inside. That's our scene! But the funny thing is, it was all closeups with no way of identifying anything in the background. It could have been shot anywhere - even in a soundstage. I'm not sure why they took production all the way to Whistler when you couldn't see any snow or mountain or anything in the shots. Perhaps any establishing shots ended up on the cutting room floor. But it was still neat to see our little vacation on the big screen!

-Liz :)