Marc Lawrence's 'Love Letter' to Binghamton University
The filmmaker's fourth collaboration with Hugh Grant led them straight to the Red Robin Diner
The other movie opening this weekend, The Rewrite, is about a struggling Hollywood screenwriter (Hugh Grant) who is gradually seduced by the charms of SUNY’s Binghamton University. Just as was the case, once upon a time, for writer-director Marc Lawrence, who graduated in 1981 with a degree in English.
When Lawrence spoke last year to fellow alum Mark Mendelsohn (Class of 1985) for a feature in Binghamton University Magazine, he explained that it was no stretch for Grant to get to that hate-love relationship starting point:
“I tried to make the movie mirror my own experience there.
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