Felicia’s Journey
Date: 1999
Director: Atom Egoyan
Production Company: Alliance Atlantis, Icon, Marquis Films Ltd
Stars: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian
Location(s): County Cork and County Tipperary (Ireland), London, Pembrokeshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands
Region(s): Ireland, London E-G, Midlands, Wales
Storyline:
A lonely middle-aged catering manager spends all of his time studying tapes of an eccentric TV chef. Meanwhile, a young woman is making her way from Ireland to find her boy friend, who moved to England to get a job in a lawn-mower factory. On arrival, she makes a contact with the caterer, who recommends a boarding room to her. Slowly, it is revealed that the caterer has in fact befriended and subsequently abused more than a dozen young women.
Additional Information:
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- Capture 1
- 17 Jan 2018
Felicia's (Elaine Cassidy) departure from Ireland. Alan Bourke recognised that this is actually Fishguard Harbour in Pembrokeshire, Wales with the white building at the railway station clearly visible.
Alan also provides this more modern image of the location.
- Capture 2
- 11 Apr 2012
Outside Birmingham's Digbeth Coach Station on Rea Street.
The same location with a little more greenery to the right. The building extreme left is Digbeth Civic Hall which featured in 'Rude Boy'.
- Capture 3
- 03 Apr 2012
Birmingham's iconic Rotunda and part of the old Bull Ring Shopping Centre to the bottom left.
Due to the rebuilding of the Bull Ring this shot is virtually impossible to recreate. The actual camera position is now inside a building. The top of the Rotunda can just be seen top centre.
- Capture 4
- 03 Apr 2012
Felicia is standing at the top of Digbeth where the road once met St Martins Queensway roundabout.
Shot from a different level and angle to prove the location for image fj003.
- Capture 5
- 08 Apr 2012
Walking towards Electric Avenue in Aston next to the River Tame as it passes under the A38M and the Birmingham to Lichfield railway line.
The same location today.
- Capture 6
- 08 Apr 2012
Electric Avenue, Aston.
The same location in B6 on the border between Aston and Witton.
- Capture 7
- 'Now' required
An unconfirmed spot in Aston with the Gravelly Hill Interchange in the background. Other views of Spaghetti Junction appear in 'Ready Player One' and 'Take Me High'.
- Capture 8
- 13 Aug 2017
This seems to be along Princip Street in Birmingham 4 with the BT Tower in the right distance.
Taken from near the junction with Newtown Row. The angles appear right but with a different focal length I'm not entirely sure.
- Capture 9
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Joe Hilditch (Bob Hoskins) walks to his car after work with one of the gas holders of Windsor Street gas works to the left. The car park appears to be off Richard Street in Nechells, Birmingham.
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Nechells Windsor Street gas works in background
- Capture 11
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St Marys Church on Main Street Clogheen.
- Capture 12
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Main Street, Clogheen
- Capture 13
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Main Street at the corner of Brewery Lane in Clogheen.
- Capture 14
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Hilditch about to meet Felicia on the road into Birmingham. Possibly what is now Richard Street as the area has been redeveloped.
- Capture 15
- 09 Apr 2012
Felicia walking alongside the Titford Canal in Langley Green.
Same location. Photo by Neil Reynolds.
- Capture 16
- 09 Apr 2012
A canalside pub, formerly Finings and Firkin and located at 91 Station Road Langley Green alongside the Titford canal. Felicia has just walked along the canal path that passes beneath the bridge.
Since renamed The Bridge and then closed down. Photo by Neil Reynolds who advises that the building was demolished during 2013.
- Capture 17
- 23 Jul 2015
Joe Hilditch arriving home. Simon James in his book London Film Location Guide identifies the location as Southside Common in Wimbledon.
The property stands at the corner of Southside Common and Murray Road. (PW)
- Capture 18
- 23 Jul 2015
Joe pulls up beside Felicia. Supposedly in Birmingham but actually Ridgway Place in Wimbledon, London SW19.
The same view. (PW)
- Capture 19
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Again at the corner of Main Street and Mill Lane with Glanworth Abbey or Castle in the background.
- Capture 20
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Main Street Glanworth.
- Capture 21
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Glanworth. The junction of Main street and Mill Lane in the background.
- Capture 22
- 08 Apr 2012
Gravelly Hill, Birmingham, looking towards Spaghetti Junction.
The same location on an Easter Sunday morning . . . . hence the low level of traffic.
- Capture 23
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Glanworth with the junction of Main street and Mill Lane in the background.
- Capture 24
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The now demolished cooling towers of Rugeley B Power Station in Rugeley, Staffordshire recognised by Lawrence Greene who adds that the road running in front of the cooling towers wasn't officially open at that time. Lawrence explains that he was excavator driver at the adjacent Lea Hall Colliery at the time of filming when the Forman asked him and a few other lads "How would you like to come in on Saturday and operate the machine as well as being a extra in a film? That was for £100 cash and all the food you could eat, which wasn't a bad deal in the late 90s."
- Capture 25
- 10 Feb 2023
Hillingdon Hospital on Pield Heath Road.
Captured by Antony Blair, this is the Maternity Wing car park, looking towards the entrance to A & E.
- Capture 26
- 10 Feb 2023
More of Hillingdon Hospital.
Returning to where he was born in 1966, Antony Blair took this shot of the Maternity Wing at daybreak.
- Capture 27
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An unknown location likely to be somewhere other than Birmingham.
- Capture 28
- 16 May 2012
The Electric Cinema on Station Street, Birmingham. A work colleague was in the area whilst they were filming this and told me that they used rain machines on a Saturday evening to create this scene.
Its not possible to get the correct angle due to rebuilding work in the area.
- Capture 29
- 13 Aug 2017
The Bartons Arms at the corner of High Street and Potters Lane in Newtown, Birmingham 6.
Almost unchanged.
- Capture 30
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At the end of the film Felicia starts working in a small park in London . Simon James' book, London Movie Guide, identifies the location as Paddington Street Gardens in London W1.
- Capture 31
- 02 May 2013
The Bandstand in Paddington Street Gardens. London W1.
And the houses at the back unchanged as well. SJ
- Capture 32
- 02 May 2013
General view of the gardens complete with foliage. Paddington Street itself appears in 'A Touch of Love' and Breaking Glass'.
Same bendy tree in the middle of both. SJ
- Capture 33
- 02 May 2013
A view from the gardens. The road signs read Ashland Place and Moxon Street.
Signs still there, and the tree. SJ