MacArthur Park is featured in the critically acclaimed 2011 film "Drive". In the Gym Class Heroes music video for Cupid's Chokehold (the "As Cruel as School Children" version) directed by Alan Ferguson, Travis McCoy and fictitious girlfriend Katy Perry meet in MacArthur Park along with dancing cupids. In the film "Havoc", Allison meets Hector in MacArthur Park the afternoon before she is arrested. MacArthur Park is featured in Lorde's 2017 music video for "Green Light". Other films include "The Nickel Ride" with Jason Miller, Private Parts (1972),"Going Ape!" with Tony Danza, Murphy's Law with Charles Bronson, The Hidden with Kyle McLaughlan, "A Patch of Blue" with Sidney Poitier, and "The Bigamist" with Ida Lupino. "In MacArthur Park" (1976) was written and directed by Bruce Schwartz.