Lindsay Blake Though not a hit critically (“parade of scatological jokes” aside), “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder” was a box office success and remains a popular watch today, 18 years after its release.
So it is a bit of a surprise that the gross-out comedy (streaming now on Amazon Prime) is an untapped landscape as far as its filming locations are concerned.
Go ahead and Google the flick – you won’t find its locales well-documented anywhere! So I was thrilled to come across a comment on a column about Pasadena’s famous Gamble House which mentioned that another Charles and Henry Greene-designed property in the area known as the Swan House was featured extensively in the 2002 film.
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