In popular culture The 1979 film Breaking Away is about four teens from Bloomington. It was filmed around the city. Karen Kingsbury's book series featuring the Baxter family (which comprises a large number of her works) is centered around Bloomington. In the 1988 film Ernest Saves Christmas, the now-former Santa Clause (who goes back to using his real name, Seth Applegate) informs the character Harmony Starr that he knows about her real identity, that being Pamela Trenton, and that she is originally from Hampton Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. In the Star Trek universe, Captain Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20, 2336, in Bloomington, Indiana (as stated in the 2000 episode "Imperfection"). A monument to this was constructed in 2020. In the popular video game Overwatch, hero character Soldier 76 is from Bloomington, Indiana. Patricia Highsmith used Bloomington as the model for the fictional town of Chalmerston in her 1983 novel People Who Knock on the Door The novel Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds centers on Terry Ives and her friends, and is set in Bloomington during the years 1969–1970.
In popular culture The 1979 film Breaking Away is about four teens from Bloomington. It was filmed around the city. Karen Kingsbury's book series featuring the Baxter family (which comprises a large number of her works) is centered around Bloomington. In the 1988 film Ernest Saves Christmas, the now-former Santa Clause (who goes back to using his real name, Seth Applegate) informs the character Harmony Starr that he knows about her real identity, that being Pamela Trenton, and that she is originally from Hampton Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. In the Star Trek universe, Captain Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20, 2336, in Bloomington, Indiana (as stated in the 2000 episode "Imperfection"). A monument to this was constructed in 2020. In the popular video game Overwatch, hero character Soldier 76 is from Bloomington, Indiana. Patricia Highsmith used Bloomington as the model for the fictional town of Chalmerston in her 1983 novel People Who Knock on the Door The novel Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds centers on Terry Ives and her friends, and is set in Bloomington during the years 1969–1970.