American rapper, guitarist and actor Adam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock, of the American hip hop group The Beastie Boys, sings on stage during a concert circa June, 1987. Horovitz would star in "Lost Angels" several years later.
The 1989 film “Lost Angels,” starring Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys, was filmed all around San Antonio, and now the house from the movie is on the market for $990,000.
The four-bedroom house at 2503 Morgans Ridge St., on the North Side, is where Ad-Rock, whose real name is Adam Horovitz, made his Hollywood debut as Tim “Chino” Doolan.
The film, directed by Hugh Hudson, is about a 16-year-old from a broken home in Los Angeles who is sent to a private psychiatric hospital after an encounter with the police turns violent.
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While the 3,944-square-foot home has undergone several remodels since 1989, it still features the same pool a car plunged into in the film, according to the listing by Heidi L. Moyer with Amy Kolb Real Estate LLC.
CIRCA 1989: (Top) Actor Adam Horovitz on set. (Bottom) actor Adam Horovitz on set of the Orion Pictures movie "Lost Angels " circa 1989.
“No animals or pools were harmed during this filming,” Moyer said in the listing.
Built in 1979, the three-and-a-half-bathroom home was constructed by Don and Frances Strange, one of San Antonio’s top caterers. It was meant as their "dream home," Moyer said in the listing.
A decade after the home was built, Hudson used the home's living room and primary suite for “Lost Angels.” He chose other filming locations in San Antonio to double for the mean streets of a Los Angeles barrio.
“Despite a decent debut performance by Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz as a troubled youth and a sleepwalk job by Donald Sutherland, ‘Lost Angels’ lost out at the box office,” wrote critic Larry Ratliff.
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Timothy Fanning is a digital reporter for the San Antonio Express-News.