Movie featuring GMC Motorhome

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This was just posted on Facebook.

Most screen time I've ever seen of a GMC in a movie. It's like it's the
main character! Not all that bad a flick either.



"Refuge" 2012 with Linda Hamilton



I watched it on Amazon Prime. It's also available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlpLX4U_K3A




bdub
 
Filmed in New Mexico and something to watch while locked down.

Melbo
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Albuquerque NM Bus Conversion 1978 MCI 1973 GMC
 
Refuge
(4)5.41h 21min201116+
Amelia (Linda Hamilton), a 40-year-old hospice nurse, accidentally kills her abusive husband and flees in the family RV with his body in the back. An
unexpected romance blooms when she picks up Darryl, a failed novelist fleeing his engagement party.

Genres Comedy Crime Drama (honest,that is where one site pegged it

Director Mark Medoff

Starring Linda Hamilton, Chris Payne Gilbert, Lena Georgas, Christopher McDonald (the last is the worthless drunk of a husband)

One review called it the worst movie he has ever seen. I guess he didn't go to triple feature drive-ins. I thought is was amusing.

We ran it last night. The coach was a big part of the show. Does anybody know whose coach it is??

It is a Power Level, but the seats are the newer version. So, is it a '75 or a '76??
The paint isn't great, but the interior is good and it looks like they managed the filming without hacking up. Good for them.

As an owner, you really have to like to oil check scenes.

The Foley guy (sound effects) should get a raspberry, when the coach was moving the engine sound was all wrong. At best it was a small block and not
even 403 it sounded more like a sedan with a short exhaust.

Finally I have figured out why TZEs show up in movies so much. It the script needs a motorhome and the director wants something that looks different,
he has few choices and if you want something running and that you should be able to keep running, well, there aren't that many real choices.....

Matt - Back to being sheltered in place.

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Matt, There was probably an interior recreation built on a sound stage or warehouse. That would allow removable walls for camera angles. If you look
at the overhead cabinet in the shots with the galley in the background, you will see that the end is squared off instead of curved. To get the shot of
the dead hubby you would need more room than the hall would allow to get that shot.
I worked on a short lived tv series entitled "Johnny Bago". We built an interior in a warehouse that was a recreation of the original. The walls were
removable for camera angles and it was on cushions so it could be shaken as though it was going down the road.
How many of you caught the reversal of the establishing coach shots going down the road.
Over all pretty sloppy but I've seen/worked on worse. :)
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