The motion picture “Constellation,” which was filmed in Huntsville, has generated at least a little bit of positive national attention for the Rocket City.

From CNN:

It’s fitting that a movie titled “Constellation” was filmed in a city that boasts the country’s only vertically erect Saturn V rocket, a white beacon that stretches 363 feet into the sky.

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Tourism officials are offering self-guided “Constellation Tour” maps that point visitors to sites that are shown in the movie, which prominently displays many of the locations like a big-screen brochure.

Only a few of the locations in the film are the product of movie magic. Some film viewers, upon seeing the majestic exterior of the seven-gallery Huntsville Museum of Art, thought the building was actually a set, “Constellation” director Jordan Walker-Pearlman said.

Walker-Pearlman said the film, about an interracial family coming to terms with their past and present problems, needed to be in a Southern city with old-world charm and modern-day advancements. But, he said, he didn’t know at first “if such a place existed.”

“Most everywhere I went, I could not find my small shining city in the hills in the South,” said Walker-Pearlman, who is a native New Yorker with a home in Los Angeles. He says he has since made Huntsville his third home.

“There is almost a European-like energy here where everyone was not just friendly, but engaged. I suddenly had this revelation that what I had put on page actually existed and it was Huntsville, Alabama.”

Reviews of the movie have been lukewarm at best, but the film is giving Huntsville some good press.

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