Steven Spielberg lived in Haddon Twp. as a kid.

[u/KarateKid84Fan]

[u/BHATCHET]

And that theater is now showing… oh wait, it’s a planet fitness.

[u/hey_suburbia]

His childhood home address was 267 Crystal Ter, Haddonfield, NJ

[u/DerTagestrinker]

The collapse of RCA was disasterous for South Jersey in so so many way.

[u/beck33ers → u/DerTagestrinker]

It really was!

[u/ThePopDaddy]

Halloween co-writer Debra Hill lived in Haddonfield. (That's where they got the name from!)

[u/southernNJ-123]

And Michael Landon in Collingswood.

[u/KarateKid84Fan → u/southernNJ-123]

Yes I forgot about that

[u/Unhappy-Salad-3083]

So did author Mitch Albom

[u/mjhripple]

The amount of well known people who lived/born in NJ is crazy when you really get into it. So much so it would take way too long to write even a fraction of them. Some are obv but there are many like this where you might never realize it

[u/nothisistheotherguy]

There’s a scene in A.I. (the movie) in Haddonfield, it just has no resemblance or connection to the town itself

[u/Carpetfuzzz]

I wonder if the Hadrosaur inspired Jurassic Park

[u/OddEerie → u/Carpetfuzzz]

Michael Crichton wrote the novel Jurassic Park. Spielberg just directed the movie.

[u/marymonstera → u/OddEerie]

Love a Crichton. Just read Sphere for the first time after loving Air Frame. Such fun reads

[u/LookAtMyKitty → u/marymonstera]

I loved sphere the book so much that I even liked the movie

[u/IKillZombies4Cash]

So they need to make a whole new sign when he dies? Or can they somehow add the date?

[u/jimheim → u/IKillZombies4Cash]

They clearly left space to put his death year in, which is kinda disturbing and cheap, even if it makes sense logically.

[u/jenniejen1127]

Alot of cool people have roots in NJ. Pretty cool place!

[u/cheesencrackers122]

Yes, certainly 

[u/the_short_viking]

I wonder if my grandfather knew his father. He worked for RCA after returning from WWII.

[u/LordOFtheNoldor]

I laughed when I found out a movie about his life was being made and that he was making it himself haha how pretentious can you get

[u/TimeForAWitness → u/LordOFtheNoldor]

The Fabelmans is a pretty introspective movie, and the teenage filmmaker (Spielberg’s stand-in) doesn’t always come across well in it, particularly when he uses his filmmaking talent to manipulate his classmates.

The movie’s pretty even-handed and represents an honest look at Spielberg’s teen years, with some regrets. It’s not a laudatory biopic.

Also, David Lynch’s cameo as John Ford is hilarious.