Kevin Smith's satiric fantasy Dogma was filmed primarily in Pittsburgh in the spring of 1998. They filmed all over the region, including at the airport (where a cheese stand indicated they were in Wisconsin rather than Pittsburgh), Oakland and Banksville.
If you know Banksville, there's a Rite Aid pharmacy on the corner of Banksville and McMonagle. But, until about 1998, a Burger King sat on that site. The Burger King closed, but was taken over by the Dogma production for a few months. The site doubled as a generic burger joint and a bar (yes, that bar). Later that year, the old Burger King was ripped down and replaced by the pharmacy.
They also shot a scene over at Jose and Tony's Mexican restaurant.
Dogma was a mostly entertaining but occasionally-muddled movie about fallen angels, extra apostles, modern life and possibly the end of all existence. The script was witty and the performances (particularly Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hyek and Ben Affleck) were pretty good.
As this movie satirized religion, some people tried to protest this movie before it was out. The protests generally fizzled. The "foul demon" was, well, gross and there was too much blood in two scenes. But, for people who paid attention to the movie (rather than the "boycott without thinking" mentality), most of the "anti-religious" comments were about how people abuse religion. There are a surprising number of theological discussions in this movie, something rarely heard outside of costume epics like A Man for All Seasons.
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