Remember the scene from 1997's "AS GOOD AS IT GETS," where Jack Nicholson takes Helen Hunt to a Baltimore restaurant and messes up their budding romance?

That scene was actually shot in Long Beach, California, at (what was then) an empty restaurant known formerly as "The Windrose". It is now open again as Khoury's Restaurant (at 110 N. Marina Drive, in Long Beach). You might not recognize it right away, though, because in that scene, Jack and Helen enter the restaurant from its rear patio, which faces the sea.

In the same scene, Jack doesn't meet the restaurant's dress code, so he dashes to a nearby store for a new set of clothes. That was actually one of the shops right next door to Khoury's, in the Alamitos Bay Landing center, in the Long Beach marina.
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In 1997, director Quentin Tarantino shot scenes from "JACKIE BROWN" (with Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda and Michael Keaton) in the food court at the Del Amo Fashion Center mall (Hawthorne Blvd. at Torrance Blvd, in Torrance), with a local Japanese fast food stand, the Tokyo Grill, playing a role under the assumed name of the "Teriyaki Donut."   (This is the same mall food court where they shot scenes from "Valley Girl" a decade earlier.) [Buy the Movie.]

Scenes for that same Terantino movie, ("JACKIE BROWN") set at the fictional "Cherry Bail Bonds" run by bondsman Robert Forster, were actually filmed a few miles east of the mall, at Carson Bail Bonds (at 724 E. Carson St., in Carson, across the street from Carson City Hall.)    (In 2009, they tore down the strip mall that housed the bail bonds office.)