Late-Night Movie Production Lights Up Detroit Avenue

Detroit Avenue in downtown Lakewood looked like a set out of Hollywood late Thursday night.

Lights, camera... and rain.

The action on the film  was a little delayed because of the thunderstorms that rolled through the area.

The rain didn't stop dozens of curious onlookers from checking out a scene from the movie that took place at .

"Beautiful Garden" — a film about a group of runaways, artists and drifters who live in a Utopian squat house, but greed, hypocrisy and corruption threaten their peaceful way of life — started production at the deli and made its way out onto Detroit Avenue.

Traffic was closed between Lakeland to Arthur avenues until around 3 a.m.

There were a half-dozen towers to simulate rain, but they were used only periodically for a couple minutes at a time — there was plenty of the real stuff.

Foot traffic was permitted between shots, but stopped once filming began.