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Do you know what movie is being flimed on Charles Street (the Cambridge end)?

Thanks,
Julie H.

From what we read in the Globe, Bostonist believes the movie shooting on Charles Street is "Stiffs," which, according to IMDb, is a comedy about "a hearse driver [who] bonds with a pack of Bostonians in an effort to keep a local funeral home in business." (We also noticed some signs near the base of the Longfellow Bridge this morning as we rode our bicycle to work that said "STIFFS" on them, which didn't make any sense at the time.) Danny Aiello, who seems not to have done much of note since "Do The Right Thing" back in '89, stars alongside Jon Polito, the ubiquitous, put-upon short bald guy whose name you don't know (that's his smiling mug above).

Written by locals Frank and Joseph Ciota, funded by local-boy-makes-good EMC founder (and Worcester Ice Cats owner) Roger Marino, set in the Hub, and made possible by newly enacted tax breaks meant to lure movie-making to the Commonwealth, "Stiffs" promises to be about as Mass-centric as Bostonist could hope for. With any luck, Aiello (of Brooklyn) and Polito (of Philly) won't butcher the local vernacular as badly as some of the big-time stars in Mystic River.