The recent movie
Parker (2013), starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, was filmed here in Boca Raton and Palm Beach, and much of the scenery throughout are places I'm very familiar with. Particularly the Boca Resort and Club.
In the scene where Jennifer Lopez (as a real estate agent) meets her client (Jason Statham) for the first time, it's in the lobby of the Boca Resort, where I used to work as a front desk clerk!
Every president since at least Gerald Ford have stayed overnight in the Boca Resort because they have exceptional security. I've been on the grounds when Ford, Bush Sr, Bill Clinton, and Obama have been there. Although I only ever got to meet Ford. Some other guests at the hotel when I was there included Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson, writer Norman Vincent Peale, and Tony Bennett. I checked in Ann Landers, who checked in under the name Ledbetter, which I thought was a pseudonym. But years later, I found out Ann Landers is the pseudonym, and Ledbetter was her real name.
Particularly fun in the
Parker movie is a scene at the Resort where Staham fights a hit man sent to kill him, and throws the guy from the Resort tower. To my knowledge, no one has ever been killed at the Resort.
