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Murphy's Romance (1985) More at IMDbPro »

• The bar set was auctioned off after filming was done. It was part of the namesake for and actual bar of a German restaurant called "Haus Murphy" in Glendale, Arizona, until the restaurant moved to a new location down the street in late 2004. The bar wouldn't fit through the door of the new location and was sold to a private collector.
  
  
• The Lunch Counter is in Florence, Arizona. It is in the General Store about 1 block south of the movie location.
  
  
• One of the few films to successfully appeal its MPAA rating. In a pivotal scene with Murphy, Bobby Jack asks him if he and Emma have been "fucking". The MPAA "automatic language rule" normally does not allow even a single instance of a "sexually derived" vulgarity, in a sexual context, in a PG-13 release.
  
  
• When James Garner's character finally admits that he is sixty years old, the real James Garner was only fifty-seven.
  
  
• Gene Blakely's final film.
  
  

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