MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has a starring role in a movie that is expected to wrap up production later this week.
"Downtown Owl," based on the Chuck Klosterman novel of the same name, has been shooting here since April 3. Currently in St. Paul, where it filmed for a week at Highland Park High School and another week at Spot Bar, it also shot scenes in Independence and Elko New Market.
All of those places are standing in for the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota, the setting of Klosterman's novel, which takes place in 1983 and 1984. That's where Horace (played by four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris) meets with buddies to discuss their life's regrets and where high school teacher Julia (Lily Rabe, who was Nicole Kidman's lawyer pal in "The Undoing") hangs out, drinking to forget her woes in scenes shot at Spot.
