Annoying movie motif: a friend with a sanctuary home

[stoickov]

I never buy it. When main character needs to hide or some kind of help, there it is: a perfect old friend with a perfect house, which is a mystical sanctuary. Usually the scenery is so exaggerated: ridiculously well decorated house in perfect location, etc.
Examples:
Children of men - Michael Caine's house in the forest
Twister - house in the desert of Helen Hunt's aunt (?)

Do you remember more examples? I'm sure it's popular motif.

[ShogunRua]

Even though it was a beautiful home inside of a boat, this motif was used in the God-awful shitfest known as Drop Dead Fred. (I watched it out of morbid curiosity, since it was my girlfriend's favorite childhood movie)

[martryn]

I think there's an example in Bird on a Wire, where Mel Gibson gets shot in the ass and this sexy vet lady removes the bullet while telling Goldie Hawn to fuck this stud.

[mattorama12]

The Bourne Identity. Though, as often happens in these films, the sanctuary isn't as safe as they believe it to be. Other than that and the first one I thought of--Children of Men--I can't seem to think of any others, even though I know I've seen this a number of times...

[mattorama12]

The Empire Strikes Back!

[MmzHrrdb]

"The Bonnie Situation" from Pulp Fiction

[stoickov]

"The Bonnie Situation" from Pulp Fiction

No, I don't think it's that. That one is actually quite reasonable. There are no to-good-to-be-true, and perfect scenery factors.

[martryn]

Mexicanville in Terminator 2 where they go to collect guns and shit?

[Ag0stoMesmer]

The Karate Kid?, for a janitor/handyman or whatever he seemed to have allot of classic cars and fences.

Zombieland? - The lair of BM

[martryn]

I think for this particular trope the sanctuary home must be one that is known to the heroes, and is inhabited by a friend of the heroes. Since no one in Zombieland personally knew or considered Bill Murray their friend, I don't think that counts.