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Movie Review: You need not love 1980s Oakland to find 'Freaky Tales' fun

Freaky Tales

Pedro Pascal stars as Clint in "Freaky Tales." 

It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales� has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s.

You need not have grown up then and there � as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors, Ryan Fleck, did � to appreciate it, although having done so surely would give you all those nostalgic feelings Fleck is hoping to conjure. Shooting in Oakland in late 2022 and early �23, the production clearly went to great lengths to re-create aspects of the city, a world away, if only 12 actual miles and some water, from its Bay Area neighbor, San Francisco.





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