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===Film=== * Parts of ''[[Point Break (1991 film)|Point Break]]'' such as the gas station fire/explosion scene took place at the intersection of Beryl and Catalina, and the foot chase past the Dive N' Surf shop. * The destination of the road-tripping family in ''[[Little Miss Sunshine]]'', although [[Ventura, California]], stood in for Redondo at the end. * ''[[Men at Work (1990 film)|Men at Work]]'', which went by the pseudonym Las Playas * ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End]]'' was filmed off the coast and the ''[[Black Pearl]]'', a cursed sea vessel, was moored in the harbor for several weeks in 2006. * [[John Travolta]]'s character [[Vincent Vega]] in ''[[Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]]'' lives in Redondo. * The end of the eponymous race in ''[[The Cannonball Run]]'' * The beach scene in ''[[Big Momma's House 2]]'' * The fictional Bird of Paradise Motel in ''[[The Two Jakes]]''. * Parts of ''[[Tequila Sunrise (film)|Tequila Sunrise]]'' were on the Esplanade, and Kurt Russell's character wears an RUHS (Redondo Union High School) [[class ring]]. * ''[[The Hot Chick]]'' (2002), starring [[Rob Schneider]], used the [[Redondo Union High School]] football stadium during the scene in which Schneider is pushed down the stadium's bleachers by co-star [[Anna Faris]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seeing-stars.com/Locations/TheHotChick.shtml |title=The Hot Chick Filming Locations |publisher=Seeing-stars.com |access-date=June 13, 2012}}</ref> * The beach scene in ''[[1408 (film)|1408]]'' is at both Redondo and Hermosa Pier. * The opening scene of ''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'', in which [[Robert De Niro]] descends an escalator, was at the [[Redondo Beach station|Redondo Beach C Line station]]. * Five short scenes at Space Park for [[Countdown (1967 film)|''Countdown'' (1967 film)]] (under its working title of ''Moonshot'') with [[Robert Duvall]], [[James Caan]], and [[Joanna Moore]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Warner Brothers Films 'Moonshot' Sequences at Space Park |magazine=Readout (weekly bulletin for TRW employees) |date=14 October 1966 |volume=VIII |number=37 |quote=Moonshot, starring Robert Duval, James Caan, Joanna Moore, and Michael Murphy, is the realistic story of an 'Apollo 3' flight to the Moon ... [photo caption] If you were wondering what was going on at Space Park last week, it was a Warner Brothers film crew doing some scenes for their new movie Moonshot. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062827/locations/ |title=Countdown, Filming & production |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=23 November 2023 |quote=Filming locations ... (TRW Space Park - now Northrop-Grumman). }}</ref>
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