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 Reign Over Me released in theatres Friday, March 23, 2007. The film shot in New York City in March, April, and September of 2006. Actor, writer and director Mike Binder was in New York City on September 11, 2001. “I wandered the streets, seeing people who had lost their whole lives in one day. A year and a half later, I was back in New York with my family, remembering all those people I had seen,” said Binder. “I kept thinking that for a lot of them, that day never ended – their trauma was ongoing. That sparked the idea to do a story about a survivor, years on, and the people in his life who pull him through.” With that in mind, Binder wrote the script for Reign Over Me, about Charlie Fineman, a man who lost his family on 9/11, and the unlikely reunion with a college roommate, Alan Johnson, who hopes to bring him out of his grief. The film stars Adam Sandler, who shot Click in 2005 in NYC, as Fineman and Don Cheadle, who shot The Family Man in 2000 in NYC, as Johnson. The city features prominently in the film, as Sandler rides around in a go-ped or motorized scooter. Months in advance to filming, production designer Pipo Wintter searched up and down Manhattan with local location scouts to find the film’s landscape. “[Director] Mike [Binder] wanted to break from a more classic perspective of the city,” said Wintter. “He wanted to stay clear of bird’s-eye views of Central Park, the Chrysler Building and other defining landmarks, opting instead for a different look at the city – a more casual, day-to-day New York.” An elegant pre-war building on Park Avenue on the Upper East Side served as the location for Johnson’s plush dental offices. Across Central Park, filming continued on the Upper West Side’s Roosevelt Park, West End, and Columbus Avenues for the Johnson family apartment and neighborhood. Fineman’s financial manager, Bob Sugarman’s firm (Sugarman is played by director Binder) was found on the 30th floor of the Reuters Building near Times Square, and Grand Central Station’s restaurant makes an appearance in a scene in which Johnson meets with Fineman’s in-laws. In keeping with Binder’s attempt to depict a real New York, Wintter notes, “While Grand Central Station is an iconic building, Mike chose to film the scene from the restaurant, which is a more everyday perspective.” The Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island sets the scene for one of the characters' brief incarceration in the film. A two mile long island in the East River between Queens and Manhattan and directly below the Queensboro bridge, Roosevelt Island looks out to the Manhattan skyline but, again, from a different point of view than the one most commonly seen in films. The film also shot in: Baruch College Washington Square Park Webster Hall The Cinema Village Theater on East 12th Street and 5th Avenue Bath Beach in Brooklyn View the trailer |  |
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