very soon. Cast John Belushi as Ernie Souchak Blair Brown as Nell Porter Allen Garfield as Howard McDermott (billed as Allen Goorwitz) Carlin Glynn as Sylvia McDermott Val Avery as Alderman Yablonowitz Tony Ganios as Max Bernbaum Liam Russell as Deke Lewis Bruce Jarchow as Hellinger Ron Dean as Plesko Production Singer Helen Reddy performed the "Theme from Continental Divide (We Will Never Say Goodbye)". The Ernie Souchak character was loosely based on longtime Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko. Reception As of December 2020, Continental Divide holds a rating of 73% at the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews. Filming locations Many of the scenes were filmed around Chicago: Belushi's character works for the Chicago Sun-Times, with many scenes filmed in and around the now-demolished Sun-Times building on the Chicago River (now the site of Trump International Hotel and Tower). Belushi and Brown's characters meet in Chicago while she is giving a lecture at the Field Museum of Natural History next to Lake Michigan. Many of the mountain scenes were filmed in Colorado in Custer County. Other scenes were filmed at: Railroad station in Chicago was not Union Station, but the old Chicago & Northwestern Terminal (now called the Ogilvie Transportation Center) made up to look like an Amtrak station. Amtrak does not operate out of this terminal. The train depot where Belushi's character says goodbye to Blair's character, but later gets back on the train is the Michigan Central Railroad Niles Depot in Niles, Michigan about 90 miles east of Chicago. It's a large sandstone building built in 1892. The depot appeared in Midnight Run with Robert De Niro and Only the Lonely with Maureen O'Hara and John Candy. Glacier National Park, Montana. Crystal Mountain, Washington, a ski area near Mount Rainier, south of Enumclaw. All tent scenes were filmed in the Cascades at Crystal Mountain, with Mt. Rainier nearby. It was at in elevation and the snow was real, but behind the cameras was the Summit House restaurant at the top of the chairlift. The final scene of the film takes place in "Victor, Wyoming" but is actually the old Cedar Falls train depot on Rattlesnake Lake near North Bend, WA. The station building is now gone (apparently now being used as a house in Covington) and the railroad line is now Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail, a popular biking route. References External