Malibu Beach RV Park

RV park on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. In Greenlights Matthew McConaughey and Camila live there in his Airstream, “the Canoe,” and learn she is pregnant.

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GreenlightsMatthew McConaugheysettingBack from Australia, he and Camila live in his Airstream here, decide to have children, and she reveals her pregnancy with an ultrasound.

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Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey (2020)

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The two of us relocated to the Malibu Beach RV park, where we moved into my twenty-eight-foot Airstream, “the Canoe.”

  • Role: setting
  • In the book: After Australia the couple move into his 28-foot Airstream, “the Canoe,” at the Malibu Beach RV park. They decide to have children, and Camila tells him she is pregnant by handing him an ultrasound picture in a wooden box.
  • Why it matters: The tiny trailer by the ocean is where he becomes a father-to-be, the thing he says he always knew he wanted.