What movies were filmed near you...?

[bliss_eternal]

In or near where you live? In your city or town?

:hi:

[bliss_eternal]

1. I'll start--Tarantino films and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pulp Fiction--
The restaurant where the stick-up takes place. Unfortunately, it was closed a few years ago. But it was a few miles from me.

Jackie Brown--
The mall where they did the bag switch. The part of the mall parking lot where Deniro kills Bridget Fonda's character is no longer in existence.

The exterior of the bar where Jackie Brown meets Ordell for a drink is also nearby.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy's house is located within the city limits that I live in. I wish I'd known that when the show was still airing--I would have gone to see it.

The area where evil Willow tried to end the world--very close by in San Pedro.

Dickie Roberts:Former Child Star
the car lot scene is within walking distance of where I live.

The Practice--
the studio where it was filmed in, was a short drive away.

One episode of Party of Five--
Filmed in the local mall/shopping center.

[Jed Dilligan]

100. Hey, you live near CA Peggy! nt

[evlbstrd]

108. "The Day After" in KC and Lawrence.

Robert Altman's "Kansas City," which was disappointing. There are others, but I have a headache and can't think.

[proud2BlibKansan]

118. Article 99

was filmed in the old St. Mary's hospital before they remodeled it and turned it over to Marillac.

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge was filmed here too. I have a friend who worked at Classic Cup and Paul Newman and Jo Ann Woodward came there for dinner every night while they were in town filming.

[evlbstrd]

121. Thanks for the reminder.

How could I have forgotten "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"?
Oh, wait. I know how.

[bliss_eternal]

140. I remember Article 99--

I actually saw that movie in a theater. It wasn't a video rental--lol!

I think that was during the time I was dating someone that worked on the periphery of the movie industry, and he saw movies for free--otherwise, I don't recall much of this film that would have made me want to see it in the theater--if that makes sense.

[ForrestGump]

2. Las Vegas yields 871 productions shot on location, listed in the IMDB

:o

The first page, alone, yields such films as "America's Sweethearts," "Casino," and "Another Stakeout" to such classics as "Bend Over Babes 3" and "Cathy Does Vegas."

I'd hate to see what people from Los Angeles might list. :o

[bliss_eternal]

4. I'm near LA--

my city is part of Los Angeles county--but I spared everyone the extensive list, and focused on the films made most directly near me.

[ForrestGump]

8. San Pedro's near you? That and Long Beach, alone, would

build quite a list. In the harbor areas, alone, they shot every American police movie ever made. Ditto Mulholland Drive, with car chases and 'parking' scenes.

[nini]

68. That's my area.. lots of harbor movies etc...

:D

I remember the Mod Squad did a lot of shots on B Street in Wilmington when I was a kid. I thought it was sooooo cool to see those things I recognized on TV.

[bliss_eternal]

142. I didn't know Mod Squad was shot there--

that's so cool!

[bliss_eternal]

139. That's True, Forrest Gump--

I only listed the one's that I recall from seeing the film, and recognizing the area in it. But there are probably a great many others that I've either not seen, or I didn't recognize while viewing it.

[Broken_Hero]

94. wasnt the mall in jackie brown in torrence?

the Del amo mall or something like that?

[bliss_eternal]

138. Yes!

:hi: Del Amo mall was featured in Jackie Brown and is in Torrance.

[Broken_Hero]

167. Yeah, i was in Torrence

back in summer of 96. A friend of mine was living in Rancho Palos Verdes, and we went to the Del Amo mall a few times, very big mall, i think its the biggest mall i have ever been in...

[Kellanved]

3. Hmm let's see

Good Bye Lenin
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Bourne Supremacy
Aeon Flux
Run Lola Run
The Blue Angel
Himmel über Berlin
The Downfall
Metropolis
Nosferatu
Black Book
Around the World in 80 Days
The Pianist
Stalingrad
Flightplan
Caligari
Alles auf Zucker!
Head-On

...


:hi:

[bliss_eternal]

143. Were parts of Schindler's List

filmed in Germany? :hi:

[NMMNG]

5. Syriana (2005)

Ladder 49 (2004)
Patriot Games (1992)
No Way Out (1987)

[displacedtexan]

23. Baltimore?

Ladder 49 crew trucks were parked on Howard Street for 2 weeks.

Don't forget all of the John Waters films! He lit the Washington Monument last night in Mt. Vernon square.

Oh, yeah. Sleepless in Seattle (the Meg Ryan part) was filmed in Fells Point.

[NMMNG]

135. Annapolis

I Googled to see what movies were filmed in Annapolis and according to IMDB these movies were.

[bliss_eternal]

144. John Waters seems pretty loyal to Baltimore--

I've only seen Serial Mom, Hairspray and the opening of Pecker.

[Debbi801]

24. Hey, are we neighbors?

:hi:

[NMMNG]

136. Possibly

I work in Annapolis and live nearby.

[Debbi801]

169. I'm in Baltimore...

:hi:

Were you affected by the fire? That was so horrible.

[REP]

6. In My Hometown, Over 100

Where I live now, thousands!

[NamVetsWeeLass]

7. Night of the Living Dead

{I have dirt from the Graveyard)
Sudden Death (They used the kitchen of the Aspinwall VA to film the Kitchen shots... I used to work there)
The MothMan Prophecies (Now I live sorta near Point Pleasant WV, where it really happened, but I lived in PA, and went to School in Kittanning where it was filmed)
There are all kinds of Flicks that were filmed in Pittsburgh.

[Beware the Beast Man]

50. When "Point Pleasant" first showed up on the screen,

I knew right away it was Kittaning. I used to drive through there frequently on my way to and from college.

[mikeytherat]

9. Some of The Russia House was shot in front of my old apartment building

mikey_the_rat

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

10. War of the Worlds (with Tom Cruise)

Far From Heaven
A Beautiful Mind etc...

Autumn in New York, with Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, was filmed in my former apartment complex while I was living in Manhattan.

[corksean]

11. Braveheart, Michael Collins, Excalibur, Reign of Fire, King Arthur

all had scenes shot in and around the Wicklow mountains about 5 miles from where I live.
Ireland's biggest studio, Ardmore Studios, is based in Bray where I lived for 3 years. There have been a lot of films shot there over the years, I actually walked past one day and saw Tom Cruise chatting to some guys outside the main gate.

I now live in a village called Avoca, where the BBC series Ballykissangel was shot (Don't know if you guys get that in the US).

While filming Braveheart they used guys from the Army reserve as extras for the battle scenes. My brother was involved in the scene where the Scots bare their behinds to the English and talked about it so much at the time that he acquired the nickname "Stuntarse No. 4"

[KT2000]

87. What about Zardoz?

wasn't that filmed there too?
By the way - you live in one of the most beautiful places on this planet!

[corksean]

120. You're right, it was.

They have a signed photo of Sean Connery in a pub I used to frequent in Bray near the studios. A few of the older locals have regaled me with stories of some legendary drinking sessions there with Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Richard Burton and Oliver Reed. But all agree that Connery was the nicest and most approachable of all the celebs that drank there.
I agree with you on the scenery. On my drive to work I go through the Wicklow mountains right past where all the outdoor stuff for Reign of Fire was shot. Desolate but very beautiful, one of those areas that changes completely with the light and never seems to look the same twice.

[Kali]

158. At least one Braveheart battle scene or hoses running down a hill scene

was filmed in Arizona - I know some folks that were extras.

[In_The_Wind]

12. War of the Worlds was filmed 1/2 hour from my home.

[RebelOne]

13. When I lived in Miami,

a scene from "The Mean Season," starring Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway, was filmed right across the street from my office. My car is in the scene. I was surprised at how short he really is.

[CabalPowered]

14. Parts of Breakfast for Champions were filmed in a building we own

More specifically, the freight elevator.

[Bunny]

15. Slap Shot with Paul Newman and All the Right Moves with Tom

Cruise were filmed in my hometown of Johnstown PA.

[Robb]

16. True Grit

And a lot of homemade porn, I'll wager. ;)

[ernstbass]

17. Dirty Dancing, What About Bob?

War of the Worlds

[underpants]

88. Smith Mt. Lake?

The filmed War of the Worlds out there? Wow Richmond really does think it is the center of the universe.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Grosse Pointe Blank.

:hi: and that movie with J Lo. and George Clooney. Can't remember the name offhand. :hi:

[bliss_eternal]

145. Out of Sight?

The Jlo- George Clooney movie name, I mean. Probably the last thing I saw that I actually liked Jennifer Lopez in--great movie. I LOVED Grosse Pointe Blanke--it was one of my first dates with my husband!

[Shell Beau]

19. My dog Skip, The Chamber, A Time to Kill, The Firm,

Lady Killers, Mississippi Burning, Crossroads, Leo, O' Brother, Where Art Thou, Mississippi Burning, The River Pirates, Heart of Dixie, Miss Firecracker, Wild at Heart, Mississippi Masala, The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ghosts of Mississippi, Cookie's Fortune



I haven't seen all of those though! Haven't even heard of some of them!

[bif]

20. Grosse Pointe Blank

Well, the opening scene anyway. They wouldn't let them shoot Grosse Pointe High. And I saw them filming a scene from Renaissance Man out the window of my office.

[bullwinkle428]

21. "Field of Dreams", "Bridges of Madison County"

...living in the state of Iowa!

[GirlinContempt]

22. Shall We Dance, The Diviners, Catwoman,

K-19 Widowmaker
Paycheck
The Italian Job
Swordfish

[WCGreen]

25. Deer Hunter....

Christmas Story...

Welcome to Collinwood....

The opening Sequence to Air Force One...

[asthmaticeog]

54. Also...

Telling Lies in America

Stranger Than Paradise

American Splendor

Double Dragon

Light of Day

[WCGreen]

57. Light of Day just sucked....

That was a horrible movie....

[asthmaticeog]

58. Yep.

The last guy to own the Euclid Tavern *still* hasn't ever seen it. That makes me chuckle.

[WCGreen]

64. Oh, I had to see it twice...

I was dating two women at the time....

They both wanted to see it...

Well, if I wanted to see the light of day... Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink Say no more Say no more......

I had to see it twice....

[johnnie]

67. One thing about Light of Day

In my opinion it gave a pretty good idea what the Music scene was like in Cleveland back then. The scummy clubs and all.

[WCGreen]

74. They were pretty fucking scummy....

Stick to the floor don't go in the bathroom scummy.....

[Kire]

26. One True Thing, Garden State

A career woman (Renée Zellweger) reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother (Meryl Streep).1998

A young man (Zach Braff) returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.

It's a very happy place.

Also, they whacked a guy on the Sopranos and put his body in a park near my High School.

[bliss_eternal]

148. LOL--

that must make driving near that site kind of funny now. Hey isn't that where the Soprano's hid some guy's body?

;)

[GOPisEvil]

27. Dazed and Confused, Slacker, Office Space

All filmed in total or in part in Austin, TX. :D

[bliss_eternal]

151. I recently watched a documentary about Dazed and Confused

or at least the making of it. I've never seen it, so it was interesting to see how big that film is to so many in Austin.

[bertha katzenengel]

28. "The A Team" and other such ridiculous 80s action shows were filmed

in Saugus, Newhall, Canyon Country -- the part of Northern L.A. County now known as Santa Clarita. I went to college there - L.A. Baptist College, now The Master's College or University or whatfuckever.

Also, the set for "M*A*S*H" was just a few miles down Placerita Canyon Road from the school.

[Kire]

34. then Bubba Ho-Tep was filmed near you, too!

That's cooler than a peanut butter and banana sandwich.

[bertha katzenengel]

38. haven't seen that one yet

I have heard it was a good film.

[Kire]

39. Hail to the King

Baby

[flvegan]

29. The Punisher was filmed 3 miles from my house.

I don't know which other ones.

[jane_pippin]

30. Milwaukee, cinematic hotbed that it is, can boast these fine films:

Mr. 3000

Part of Major League (The stadium at the end was County Stadium.)

You know that scene at the end of the Blues Brothers where the car goes over the edge of the freeway? Milwaukee.

American Movie (This one's a good one. See it if you haven't).

[Bridget Burke]

31. Brewster McCloud....

Paris, Texas. Terms of Endearment.

IMDB would give a fuller list, but that would be cheating!

[Kire]

32. My friend owns the Jamaican restaraunt in "In Her Shoes"

it was like a character it was in so many scenes

[Patiod]

70. Cool ! You know the Jamaican Jerk Hut folks!

Haven't gotten there yet -- do they have curried goat? (I'm not kidding, I actually like it)

[Kire]

132. I went to Jamaica with the owner.

two years ago, I moved away so I don't know what's on their menu anymore

[bliss_eternal]

150. Very cool!

Sorry that you moved away...

:hi:

[RubyDuby in GA]

33. My Cousin Vinny, parts of Remember the Titans

The original tv version of Dukes of Hazzard (outside scenes)

[bliss_eternal]

152. I loved Remember the Titans--

totally didn't expect to. My Cousin Vinny still makes me laugh!

[Err]

35. "Fargo"

About 100 miles from here.

[Kire]

36. Friday the 13th, Part 1

Blairstown, NJ - apparently the phone number on the oil truck in the beginning still works

[TK421]

44. Kill her mommy, kill her..she can't hide!

Dude, that's pretty cool!

[Kire]

48. I went to camp there.

It's still a working camp. No Bi Bo Sco, some Indian name.

They don't like visitors, but the diner towards the end of the movie welcomes people.

[TK421]

52. Do any of the visitors end up dead? You know, like with twenty arrows

shot through them? Just curious

[Kire]

63. I was wondering that when I got lost in the swamp.

I was miserable when I got home.

[TK421]

37. Philadelphia, 12 Monkeys....there are others, I'm sure

[Kire]

40. In Her Shoes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4384546&mesg_id=4385224

[Patiod]

71. 6th Sense

A bunch of my S.O.'s actor friends were in it

S.O. got called back for the role of the kid's teacher, but the Hollywood guy they cast was a much better choice - nice and twitchy, which my S.O. is most assuredly not.

[malta blue]

41. Seabiscuit & Billy Bathgate

Are the first two that come to mind.

Chris Penn is currently in town filming a yet unnamed movie.

[miss_american_pie]

42. Dominick and Eugene

A scene from that movie was filmed on the street where my grandmother lived.

[Orsino]

43. The Mosquito Coast

The hilarious part is all the fuss made when Harrison Ford filmed a movie in downtown Rome, Georgia, contrasted with the scenes that made it to the theater: Ford looking out the window of his truck and saying, "This place is a toilet."

[BrotherBuzz]

45. The Candidate

The movie was filmed in my home town and released while I was in the service. I saw the film overseas and had a big dose of homesickness when I saw scenes shot in my high school gymnasium and locker room.

Oh, Take the Money and Run was also partly filmed in my hometown. Our high school band was used for the classic scene when inept criminal, Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen), plays a cello in a marching band. One of my teachers was a member of Virgil's chain gang, too.

[Omphaloskepsis]

46. Animal House, Stand By Me, Without Limits..

[XemaSab]

80. Shasta County:

Willow

Hell is for Heroes

and last but not least, the train scene in Stand by Me (Burney Falls SP)

[bigwillq]

47. Mystic Pizza

Other People's Money (Danny DeVito)
Those are two off the top of my head that were filmed in CT.

[Beware the Beast Man]

49. Gosh, around where I used to live (Pittsburgh):

Here's a short list:
http://pittsburgh.about.com/cs/movies/a/filmed.htm

[bikebloke]

51. I don't know the name of it...

Clint Eastwood was filming his Iwo Jima film across the road from where I reside, not long ago. "The Recruit" was filmed there, too. Though I rolled by on my commute, nobody asked me stick around and act.

They're always filming something around DC.

[Jokerman]

53. Breaking Away, Eight Men Out, Blue Chips.

My sister is in a crowd scene in Breaking Away and parts of Blue Chips was filmed in my high school.

I thought about auditioning for a part as a extra in Eight Men Out but I had long hair at the time and didn't want to cut it off.

[djeseru]

55. True Stories with David Byrne.

Filmed a few miles south of my high school, some classmates made it into the film. A hated (by me, yes...) school guidance councelor is the parade announcer.

[Taverner]

56. Well...I lived in Snoqualmie Falls, WA (aka Twin Peaks) one year

That was a trip - the movie had just come out and busloads of Japanese tourists rolled into town daily. You could even have a picture of yourself taken wrapped in plastic (just like poor Laura Palmer.)

The cafe from the show had terrible coffee and shitty pie btw...

[Seabiscuit]

59. Almost all of them.

At the San Diego County Fair this summer in Del Mar, there was an exhibit hall with all the movies filmed here - hundreds of them - I couldn't believe it!

For info about the Fair exhibit this summer, see: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/06/15/entertainment/movies/61505124504.txt

For a list of films shot in San Diego (hold on to your seats, kids - you won't believe your eyes), see:

http://sdfilm.com/featurefilms.asp

[bliss_eternal]

156. Wow!

That's an amazing list--I never would have known so many movies were shot in San Diego!

Thanks for sharing the link!

[LeftyMom]

60. More than I can count

Okay, there are about a zillion movies filmed around here (easy Sacramento detection hint: if it's supposed to be the midwest, it's probably Sacramento, because nobody actually wants to film that far away if they can help it and Sacramento is boring and flat enough to stand in and within a day's drive of LA. If the movie depicts a muddy greenish river that's supposed to be the Mississippi, it's probably the Sacramento river. The state capitol building stands in for most any other state's capitol building too.)

[bridgit]

97. bwahaha, true enough...

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[huskerlaw]

61. The vast majority of them!

Hooooray for Hollywood! ;)

[terrya]

62. Chicago has had many movies filmed here, but ironically...

"Chicago" wasn't one of them.

[bliss_eternal]

157. Like Soul Food--

still cracks me up to see the audition scene in that film. A guy that I worked with was up late the night prior to filming that scene--at our restaurant's Christmas party. We kept telling him to go home so he'd make the set call on time.

He told us he got reamed a bit for holding up production. It cracks me up seeing it, because I know how hung over he was that day! :rofl:

[noonwitch]

65. 8 Mile

I drive past that trailer park every day on my way to work.

[calico1]

66. Mystic Pizza. There are others that have

had parts filmed here but I can't think of the names right now.

[ashling]

69. I worked at

Mississippi State Hospital (aka Whitfield) When "A Time To Kill was filmed there. They used our department meeting room as Dr. Rodeheaver's office (Sandra Bullock climbs in the window to steal files from his office)

I was an extra in Brewster McCloud (1968) segment which was filmed at the Houston Zoo.

My daughter and I were extras in a footall crowd for "Varsity Blues" filmed in Round Rock Tx.

Lots of other stuff filmed in and around Austin

Hope Floats - Lockhart, TX (again, Sandra Bullock)

Second Hand Lions - Pflugerville, TX (Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment)

others which I can't think of right now.

[HillDem]

72. I am an extra in "The Pelican Brief"

I'm in the supreme court crowd that Denzel runs through.

[bliss_eternal]

154. That's cool!

I didn't care much for extra work--but it's kind of neat to see a scene you were in make the finished film!

Sadly, nothing I was ever an extra for actually made it to the final cut. :( Oh well, I still got paid. LOL!

[NNadir]

73. "IQ" was filmed in Princeton and Hopewell; "A Beautiful Mind," in

Princeton.

Interestingly the summer outdoor scenes in "A Beautiful Mind" (on the University Grounds" were actually shot in the dead of winter. The leaves on the trees are computer graphics.

[Floogeldy]

75. Rain Man

The motel scenes were shot down the road in El Reno, Oklahoma.

[woofless]

76. Call Of The Wild

Around Glacier, WA. Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

Woof

[Hobarticus]

77. Field of Dreams, F.I.S.T., Take This Job & Shove it, Farm of the Year...

I'm tellin' ya, Dubuque's the Hollywood of the corn belt.

[trackfan]

78. Plenty of them. I'm in L.A.

More specifically - there's a church down the street where they film more often than they have church services. I'm also a few blocks from the street in Pasadena where both the real (extant) and fake (recently burned) Batman houses are.

[BobEPeru]

79. The Blues Brothers...

And Ferris Beullers Day Off

[mtnester]

81. Shawshank Redemption, Mischief, the Horse Whisperer..

Air Force One, Brubaker, Deer Hunter, Teachers, A Better Way to Die.

[schmuls]

82. Part of the Blues Brothers film. You know that part near the end

when the one nazi looks at the other one and said "I have always loved you". That scene was filmed on our famous road to nowhere on our interstate system here in Milwaukee, near Lake Michigan.

[Blue_In_AK]

83. Runaway Train

John Voigt, Eric Roberts and Rebecca DeMornay (1985).

[Jed Dilligan]

101. GREAT movie

but brrrrrrr!

[Blue_In_AK]

103. Our weather today is quite a bit like that,

about 16 degrees and snowing like crazy. I imagine if I were to drive south of Anchorage about 20-30 miles to where that movie was filmed, it would be a major white-out. I think about that movie whenever I drive through there when it's snowing.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

84. Silence of the Lambs, Dawn of the Dead, All the Right Moves

I think all of the Ramiro scary flicks were filmed around Pittsburgh but I only know Dawn of the Dead.

[SoCalDem]

85. Parts of "Picnic" were filmed in my home town

:)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

109. Is that Emporia, KS ?

We were living in Wellington when that movie was filmed.

[SoCalDem]

127. They filmed all over Kansas.. My family lived in Salina

I was not in the US then, but I heard all about it from my Grandparents..

[kskiska]

122. That's one of my all-time favorites

While on a cross-country trip I made a detour to Hutchinson, KS, and saw the grain elevators used on the movie, but was disappointed to find that the dance scene was filmed in Hollywood. Later I found that the picnic site and Neewollah river scene was filmed in another Kansas town.

[SoCalDem]

129. Here's a cool link about the making of the film and all the places

The "mansion" was owned by a friend of mine's grandparents.. It was fun to go there and see some of the stuff that was in the movie



http://members.aol.com/harlowgold/picnic.html

[kskiska]

133. Thanks loads, SoCalDem!!!

Good link. I've got the movie on tape. I loved Holden, even though he was a little old for the part.

[SoCalDem]

162. Kim was too old too..

the characters needed to be early 20's for the story to make real sense, but the movie is still good.

[RockaFowler]

86. In Palm Beach County

There are a few:

Wild Things (Denise Richards - Kevin Bacon - Matt Dillon movie)

Body Heat (Kathleen Turner - William Hurt). My husband is an extra in this movie. They filmed it in Downtown Lake Worth and used everyone in the town to film the movie. Kind of cool to see him when he was younger on screen.

Heartbreakers (Jennifer Love Hewitt - Sigourney Weaver). Filmed at the famous Breakers Hotel on Palm Beach.

There may be more, I just can't recall them all right now

[El Fuego]

95. "In Her Shoes" with Cameron Diaz was filmed in Delray

Which scene is your husband in in "Body Heat"? I will watch for it! I love to watch that movie to see Downtown Lake Worth, since I go there all the time. :)

[RockaFowler]

125. Another Lake Worthite

My husband was raised here. He is in the Lettuce Patch scene (that was Mark Foley's Parents restaurant/supermarket back in the day)

[MsUSA]

89. Grumpy Old Men, both one and two......Wabasha MN.

:applause:

[swag]

90. "Drugstore Cowboy," "My Own Private Idaho," some others.

[underpants]

91. "Hannibal" 2 blocks for our old place + GI Jane, The Jackal & DAVE!

Dave is by far the best movie they have filmed in Richmond in the last 15 years.

[bliss_eternal]

159. I adore Dave--

such a great film!

[Broken_Hero]

92. I'm in SW Missouri right now...

the closest i can think of...is the Where the REd Fern Grows, was filmed outside of Tahlequah i believe....adn Sling Blade...at the end of the credits, it says it was filmed in Benton County...which i believe is the county right below my current one, plus benton county is a dry one, and Dwight Yoakum always said he was going to cross the state line for booze....so thats two...:)

[Wetzelbill]

93. Cut Bank Mt,..... "War Party" starring Billy Wirth and Kevin Dillon

"What Dreams May Come" starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr.

There are a few more here and there. But, when I say near my town I mean an hour or two, because it's so spread out we consider 3 hours pretty close. :)

I live in Tucson now. Too many to list.

[ghostsofgiants]

96. The Shipping News

[graywarrior]

98. Perfect Storm...when I lived in Gloucester MA

They also filmed the Love Letter with Tom Selleck in Gloucester when I lived there. I used to jog by the house they filmed at every day.

[hibbing]

164. ever read The Hungry Ocean?

Great book by hmm..Linda Greenlaw? Not sure I have that name right. But was is a book by a female captain of a swordfish boat that knew the captain of the boat in the perfect storm. Fascinating book about that occupation, learned alot, never knew how much goes into that.

Peace

[peekaloo]

99. Parts of 'Edward Scissorhands' (my old hometown)

The SouthGate shopping center in Lakeland, Florida.

[begin_within]

102. "Return of the Killer Tomatoes" on my street! I'm so proud.

[Jed Dilligan]

104. The Matrix Reloaded -- on my street

150 imdb titles for my city, including The Candidate, A View to a Kill, Top Gun, Roger Rabbit, Mona Lisa Smile, Hurlyburly, and Star Trek IV.

[Beam Me Up]

173. hats off to Oakland!

:hi:

[Xithras]

105. Howard the Duck, Back to the Future 3, Always, Unforgiven, dozens more.

Like LeftyMom, I live in an area of California that does great stand-in's for other parts of the country. We have flat farmland that looks like the midwest, rolling foothills nearby that look like the old west, high mountains an hour away, major urban areas, and small quiet farm towns.

Unfortunatly, the air pollution is chasing a lot of film companies away from here. Central California may do a good stand in for Iowa on a clear day, but most days are smoggy, and the brown skies don't look so good on film.

[TX-RAT]

106. Hanger 18, The last Picture Show, Giant.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

107. My little town of Manhattan Beach saw at least one movie filmed here!

The movie was "Tequila Sunrise" .....Kurt Russell and Michele Feiffer were in it....


But I clearly recognized the view of the downtown as it was shot from on top of a building that I know well....They scanned across the intersection, and you could see the pier and ocean beyond.....

:woohoo:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

110. Hud

a some others of lesser mention.

[Beaverhausen]

111. "The Trouble with Angels" and "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows"

Anyone remember those?

They filmed parts of both of those in the Philly suburbs where I spent most of my childhood.

I love in Los Angeles now...I work at a big studio. They film right in my office sometimes! Too many to list.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

112. I live in Los Angeles.

So... all of them. ;)

[Beaverhausen]

114. Are you coming to the Los Angeles gathering on the 11th?

see the California Forum for details! :hi:

[abbeyco]

113. Things to do in Denver When You're Dead

[doc03]

115. The Deer Hunter, Fools Parade, Night of the Hunter

and Night of the Living Dead.

[Ron Green]

116. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Sometimes a Great Notion"

[Lannes]

117. Filmed on the street or showing the street where I grew up in NYC

The Hot Rock with Robert Redford.So did Being John Malkovich,Hannah and Her Sisters,Manhattan,The World of Henry Orient with Peter Sellers,The Devil's Advocate,to name a few.

[Redneck Socialist]

119. Jumangi (sp?)

was filmed in a town near where I grew up, or at least parts of it were. And I now don't live too far from where The Perfect Storm was filmed.

[wovenpaint]

123. Mermaids

Cher and Winona Ryder were in town to film parts of it. I found out later that the town cops had to try to round up Winona running off down the street away from her (then) boyfriend-Johnny Depp! I was within 1 mile of him -boy, I would have LOVED to see that!

[kskiska]

124. Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1955)

I was 10, and my mother took me to watch Gregory Peck shoot the scene where he gets off the commuter train from NYC at the Westport, CT, railroad station. There are other Westport scenes in the picture, too. I walked up to Peck and got his autograph, which I still have, and took several pictures, too.

[BlackVelvet04]

126. Somersby.....n/t

[DanCa]

128. The Blues Brothers Wauconda Il

Do you remember the slide scene where the kid did the back flip off the pier? They closed the school for that and gave us all twenty five dollars for being extras.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

130. I live in Tallahassee

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Something Wild (Ray Liotta)

[Gregorian]

131. Harold and Maude

[fight4my3sons]

134. The Road to Wellville

was filmed near where I used to live at the location that I was married -

Mohonk Mountain House in Upstate New York

[Ladyhawk]

137. Unforgiven, Back to the Future 3, Part of Temple of Doom,

tons of Westerns of all descriptions, one of the Love Bug films...damn, too many to remember, actually.

Series filmed often in this area: Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, Petticoat Junction, anything with a "Western" theme.

[spacelady]

141. Terms of Endearment - Lincoln, Nebraska Debra Winger & Bob Kerry

started dating at that time.

[Bombero1956]

160. The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

film in Springfield. Before and After with Liam Neeson and Meryl Streep. They filmed the court scenes in Springfield even though the movie was set in Vermont or New Hampshire. A friend of mine works as a court officer and he was asked to be an extra. In the movie he played a prisoner who is lead past Neeson and Streep in handcuffs. They had him redo the scene because his shoes were too loud. Stanley & Iris has some shots filmed in Holyoke. Although mostly filmed in Waterbury CT. The scene where DeNiro asks Fonda to teach him to read is filmed in a section of Holyoke MA called the Flats.

[hibbing]

163. Kay's Restaurant

Yeah, Terms of Endearment. Never thought the food was all that great at Kay's but it had a nice ambience I thought with all the lion stuff. A rather sappy movie. You aren't in Lincoln anymore I take it?

Peace

[spacelady]

170. No, Mobile AL, in spite of everything, don't miss Stinkin' Lincoln.

Kay's was not the best.

[lady raven]

146. Twister

Was filmed around my town and there was even some filming on my street which went straight to the cutting room floor.

Helen Hunt rented a house 1 block over.

She was the only one of all the actors who wasn't nice.

And boy, did that movie SUCK.

[RoyGBiv]

166. Same here ...

Agreed on all counts. I never interacted with Hunt, but I heard stories, and they not complimentary of her in any way.

I was with a civil defense unit (storm spotters) that helped film crews try to capture some actual storm footage. I think it was an omen about how bad the movie would be that they did this during one of the quietest storm seasons in ten years.

[lady raven]

177. Nice to meet another Okie!

Is that what you do for a living? My husband and I storm chased (ill- advisedly, I realize now) before we had a child. Fascinating stuff.

HH either has a problem with Oklahoma or has a problem in general. She treated everyone here like they were complete idiots and was heard commenting that she couldn't wait to get out of this stupid hick town...

We resented it because that's OUR thing to say. Hehe.

[RoyGBiv]

178. It was volunteer ...

I got into because a friend and I were into HAM radio and computers and knew how to use the two together to connect to sites that gave up-to-the-minute weather information including map imagery we could use in the field. Sounds like no big deal now, but this was before the proliferation of Internet access and reliable wireless networks that didn't cost thousands of dollars and getting that kind of info from NOAA required an expensive setup our county couldn't afford. One radio and one cheap computer, however, did it all. It was pretty cool.

Anyway, regarding Ms. Hunt, coincidentally a friend of mine went to college with her and had one class with her. This was obviously before she was famous, but she made an impression even then. My friend refers to her as "that evil pottymouth" when feeling kind. :-)

[lady raven]

184. how interesting!

My husband is interested in HAM radio and is a computer geek- I bet he would have loved to do something like that. Very interesting! What part of the state are you in?

About HH, that's so sad- and she's a Dem! I think that makes me even sadder.

[RoyGBiv]

185. OKC now ...

This was in South-Central OK, the cordior north of Ardmore and south of Purcell that storms developing in NW Texas and SW OK go through every time.

I quit doing it because a) I almost got killed and b) Civil Defense units were reorganized under Emergency Management with federal oversight. At the stroke of midnight one night, a dozen people in my county, some of whom had been serving their communities for years by doing this and knew the ins and outs of storm spotting (which is different than chasing) better than most professional meteorologists were no longer qualified. To be qualified we had to pay to take some classes and then take and pass ridiculous tests that had no bearing on what we did. I don't take classes and tests for volunteer work I already know how to do.

Funny thing: Our team could typically give communities 15-30 minutes warning of an approaching funnel on the ground unless it was a "bouncer," giving the precise location and direction of travel of the actual cyclone, not just the rotating super-cell from which the storms emerge. We could do this before radar could even guess it and sometimes more accurately than radar does it today. (There is still no way to identify the exact location of a funnel on the ground prior to its moving through an area and leaving damage without a visual sighting.) When I first started doing it, some television news anchors were still using eraser boards for current weather maps and were doing more guessing than actual predicting.

A big part of our ability to do this was the coordination we had combined with an intimate knowledge of county and local roads. Get two teams running parallel, a third behind, and a fourth well ahead, give them radio communication and central direction from a command center, and you can track a storm anywhere. When professionals took over doing this they quickly realized they couldn't do it well because they'd get lost and lose the storm. You get to see evidence of this on television newscasts now when spotters in the field go to an unknown area and talk about passing through a town that has already been hit, not quite aware of which way the storm was going. This is one reason they tend to stick to the major cities.

A certain famous OK weather personality who shall remain nameless, btw, hated us, all of us. In the early days he (or his team) would use a scanner to listen in to our chatter and then report it as *his* news during a weather update while at the same time badmouthing us on the air as "thrill seekers" who needed to let the professionals do their jobs. I watched him via a portable, battery powered television once repeat my driver's latest report word for word and credit it to his mobile news team. Made me want to strangle him. I suppose I shouldn't be bitter. The point was to protect and inform the public, but it was crap like that that made what the Civil Defense was go away.

Anyway, I've rambled on long enough.

[KitchenWitch]

147. The only one that comes to mind at the moment

is that stupid Arnold Schwartzeneggar Christmas movie.

They have done tons of films here, I just cannot think of them right now.

[LaraMN]

186. Oh! I think they filmed "Mall Rats" at the Eden Prairie Mall.

Or at least my husband once told me that...

[njdemocrat106]

149. Chasing Amy

The ice rink in Chasing Amy, where the hockey game is played, is in my town, and it's just down the road from my old high school.

[Canuckistanian]

153. The Last Detail

Jack Nicholson was in my little neighborhood!

[Kali]

155. actually on the ranch, parts of:

Red River - both versions
Geronimo
Buffalo Soldiers
Tombstone
Posse
Young Guns II
plus numerous clothing catalog shots, several vehicle adds, and a Kenny Rodgers music video (Planet Texas)

Oh and some stock footage of stagecoaches coming off a hill.

[last_texas_dem]

161. There can't be that many

Perhaps any that involved an execution in Texas; then again, it's doubtful they were actually filmed on location!

[jonnyblitz]

165. "mystic pizza" with julia roberts.

I live near Mystic, CT. nt

[GrpCaptMandrake]

168. "Matewan"

a brilliant film, was shot at Thurmond in Fayette County, West Virginia and Grandview State Park in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

Anyone who wonders why organized labor still has a militant streak (what little is left) should see this wonderful John Sayles film.

[argyl]

171. "Bonnie and Clyde" A lot of it was shot in and around Denton.

A movie called "Necessary Roughness" was also filmed on the UNT campus around 1991.Had Scott Bakula in it.

From the sublime to the mundane.

[vajraroshana]

172. Ravagers and What Waits Below....

They used a place called Three Caves near me in Huntsville, Al.

I haven't seen either.

Ravagers had Ernest Borgnine, and it was supposed to be so bad that it was good in a b-movie cult sort of way.

[Liberal In Texas]

174. Somebody is shooting one right now just down the street.

They've been there all week, when I drove by tonight the front of this mansion is all lit with studio lighting and all kinds of people milling around.

I don't know the name of the movie.

[LibDemAlways]

175. The famous "chicken salad sandwich"

scene from 5 Easy Pieces was filmed in a Dennys (which is now gone) 5 minutes away. You can see the almost empty 101 freeway in the background and the surrounding pristine hills - reminders of how nice and quiet this area was 35 years ago.

Also, portions of Poltergeist were filmed in my neighborhood. The big oak tree in the middle of the street made it into the movie - now gone - and a fake cemetery was put up in what was then a construction zone of a new housing development. Those houses are now over 20 years old.

Portions of "Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" were also filmed on roads around here.

Most recently the new Adam Sandler movie "Benchwarmers" was filmed here. The production company literally took over the neighborhood.

[Solon]

176. "Escape from New York"

That was back in the 1980s, doesn't look post-apocalyptic anymore, I swear.

That's St. Louis, my city, St. Charles included films like "Larger than life" and "King of the hill" also, the Excorist was based on a real event that happened in St. Louis.

[AngryAmish]

179. "Mad Dog and Glory" and "Only the Lonely"

many others but those are the spots I can remember. Also "The Color of Money".

[tuvor]

180. Are We There Yet?

Filmed in part on Vancouver Island's Inland Island Highway, the only highway in North America that will shut down for enough movie moolah.

When I lived in Vancouver, I lived a block over from Mulder's apartment building. The building offers tours now. :eyes:

[KLF44]

181. Prancer

Filmed in and near Three Oaks,Michigan

[CanuckAmok]

182. Recently: X-Men 1, 2, and 3. In the Land of Women, Dead Zone (series)

But lots and lots over the years.

[Luna_Chick]

183. Tombstone and The Three Amigos

To name only a few of the MANY westerns done in Old Tucson Studios (about 30 minutes from my apartment) and a little further south around Mescal.

[BikeWriter]

187. Alamo Bay

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800340605/info

Starring: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen, Donald Moffat, Truyen V Tran

timely drama about the plight of Vietnamese fishermen who settled off the Texas coast. Shortly after they began to ply their trade there, the collection of human garbage, otherwise known as the KKK, began to harass them. Based on a true incident.