Romantic Comedy Shares Its Dark Side

OTTAWA — On the film set of Hit By Lightning, Ottawa doubles as Los Angeles, Librairie du Soleil in the ByWard Market is turned into an American bookstore and there’s no paparazzi to bother the lead actors.

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On Tuesday afternoon, the producers of the independent film starring Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men), Will Sasso (The Three Stooges) and Stephanie Szostak (Iron Man 3) took over a ByWard Market bookstore for one of the scenes in the romantic comedy. The movie, budgeted at $1.1 million, concerns a middle-aged guy (Cryer) who looks for love online only to find a soul mate who is married.

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