Hollywood at the Jersey Shore. This Margate restaurant was the set of a new film
Hollywood came back to the Jersey Shore this week.
Dino's Subs and Pizza of Margate announced via Facebook that inside dining would be closed on Wednesday, June 5.
The reason? "Hollywood called and Dino's answered," the restaurant's post explained.
Owner Tim Wainwright told the Courier-Post that the movie "People Not Places" starring Shirley MacLaine and Stephen Dorff was responsible for the restaurant takeover.
Wainwright said that Dino's has been in business for more than six decades and that they were excited to host a piece of Hollywood and also happy that the film crew chose Margate.
A Facebook update on Wednesday showed a photo of McLaine sitting outside the pizza shop with Wainwright, his wife, Tara, and daughter Ella.
Other shots showed the movie crew at work inside the restaurant.
"The crew that was tired of the catering truck ate inside Dino’s during lunch break," Tim Wainwright said Thursday.
"Shirley ordered her own sub to eat as well."
According to the film's IMDB page, the movie centers around a "sprightly woman in her twilight years (who) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a local homeless man, while struggling to mend a troubled relationship with her son."
MacLaine, 90, is known for her roles as Aurora Greenway in "Terms of Endearment" (1983) and Ouiser Boudreaux in "Steel Magnolias" (1989).
The film is being directed by Brad Furman.
"It was an honor," Wainwright said in a Facebook post after the day's production had wrapped.
"Can't wait to see it on the big screen!"
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This article originally appeared on Cherry Hill Courier-Post: Margate restaurant closes for "People Not Places" filming
