“The Hating Game”, directed by Peter Hutchings, is a 2021 romantic comedy movie based on the 2016 novel by Sally Thorne. The story revolves around a kind girl named Lucy Hutton who works in a publishing house. She aims to climb the ladder of success in her career but is thwarted by her sworn enemy, Joshua Templeman.
Lucy thus engages herself intensely in an attempt to overcome the cold and orderly Joshua, while at the same time trying to maintain her professional ethics and ethics. It starts with a lively game where the two try to be better than each other through witty words and cunning schemes.
However, once Lucy is attracted to Joshua, the plan to defeat him becomes complicated. In the professional field, she faces a decision between doing something with each other or handing over her feelings for her. Starring Lucy Hale as Lucy and Austin Stowell as Joshua, the movie is fun over the office competition with romance elements set against the backdrop of the Grand City.
Where Was The Hating Game Movie Filmed?
“The Hating Game” was filmed entirely in various parts of New York State, most notably in Upstate New York, Kingston, and New York City. New York has a diverse landscape divided by river valleys, from the coastal islands to the beautiful Appalachian and the Adirondack Mountains.
Natural beauty, the infrastructure that supports movie and TV production, as well as tax breaks and grants for movie production, have made the state a fast-growing filming destination.
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Located north of the metropolitan area, Upstate New York includes cities such as Albany, Utica, Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. Various cities have added distinctive cultural influences to the region and the geography is characterized by mountain ranges, vast forests, and large lakes. The main parts of ‘The Hating Game’ were filmed in Upstate New York.
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The beautiful winter scenery of the area adds character to the story of the movie. Some of the major shooting locations in upstate New York are the Catskill Mountains, Finger Lakes, the Pocantico River, and Little Falls.
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Kingston is a city in Ulster County, New York, and is considered an important transportation hub with its railroad and canal network. The city is rich in colonial history, having been burned down by the British after the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. It has various historical churches and districts and some scenes from ‘The Hating Game’ were filmed there.
‘The Hating Game’ was also filmed in New York City – the most populous city in the entire country. It consists of five cities at the confluence of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean. The city is home to Manhattan, one of the largest economic, historical, and cultural centers internationally.
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New York City is famous for its magnificent skyscrapers as well as iconic sites such as Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Central Park, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is a major filming location with state-of-the-art studio facilities and a large network of cast and crew.
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