Hometown Movie Night in Japanese Basement
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Dan Boland
@nihongodan · Jun 5, 2026
I was in a bar and the Julia Roberts movie "Riding in Cars with Boys" that was filmed in my hometown was on. I've never actually seen the movie, but I kept telling the people in bar "I used to play beer pong at that house," or "blah blah used to live in that house." My dream version of this movie is definitely not the same movie, because, while it's still 1920's America, in this movie a kid from my high school is quarantined in a house with Julia Roberts but he has a disease that kills people in seconds if you are in close proximity to him. They keep sending the FBI into the house one by one to talk to the kid, but they keep dying.
When I look away from the TV I'm in a basement with a bunch of people I haven't seen or spoken to in 10 years since moving to Japan. We're playing beer pong, while Riding In Cars With Boys is playing on one of those TVs with the big booties you would see in the mid-2000s. I was really happy to catch up and see some people, who realistically, I probably won't ever see again.
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✧ AI Analysis: You experienced a nostalgic dream blending a Julia Roberts movie set in your hometown with memories of people from your past before moving to Japan. The dream shifted between being a bar patron commenting on familiar locations in the film to actually being in a basement reunion, suggesting a longing to reconnect with your roots and old friendships that distance and time have made difficult to maintain.