Name a movie either filmed or set in a town you lived in, while you lived there.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

They filmed a scene from "In the Line of Fire" 5 miles from where I lived in Maryland. Clint Eastwood came down and everything. It was a big to-do. They actually put a sign up on the local movie theater marquee that read "In the Line of Fire--Filmed Locally", even though the entire scene was all of three minutes long.

A lot of "The Waterboy" was filmed at and around my college in Florida.

[bif]

1. Grosse Pointe Blank" and "Gran Torino"

[RadicalGeek]

2. Before He Was a (Big) Star

Between Red Dawn and Dirty Dancing the now late Patrick Swayze filmed a movie called Tiger Warsaw in my hometown.

[Brickbat]

3. Some of "GoldenEye," a James Bond film, was shot in St. Petersburg, Russia, when I was living there.

[VMI Dem]

4. Sommersby.

Boo.

[kwassa]

5. I lived in Los Angeles. Which of the thousands should I name?

when I lived there, a scene for "What's Love Got to Do With It" was filmed in the apartment house a few doors down from mine.

I walked through a film set at the Hotel Washington in D.C. for "Contact". Never did see Jodie Foster.

out here in the 'burbs, no movies.

Though much of the interiors for "The Wire" was filmed in a studio in Columbia, Md., not too far away. "The Blair Witch Project" was also filmed in this area.

[TZ]

6. Blair Witch Project is the closest.

It was filmed in Frederick Country, which is just north of where I live.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. My friend lives a town over from Burkittsville.

Apparently the residents get a little tired of the notoriety.

[TZ]

10. and the traffic and the sight seers.

Yep. I've been through there a time or two. I can see how the locals could get annoyed easy.

[Sequoia]

38. Or Salt Point State Park in N. Cal.

I was camping there once when I woke up in the middle of the night to a lot of spooky noise outside. I said, what's that and my husband goes: It's the Blair Witch Project! It was a bunch of naughty racoons. Fast forward to just this past spring when our daily paper reported a story of some young campers who woke up scared as heck because of the noise and insisted what they heard was a couger. The ranger of course said it was racoons. It was scary and I tell you that place is haunted anyway.

[nuxvomica]

7. The original Sleepaway Camp and Ghost Story

The cast and crew of the former stayed at a cheap local hotel that was probably much scarier than the movie.

[dropkickpa]

9. Dudes, I was IN a crowd scene of Sudden Death, yo!

Jean-Claude Van Damme Mutha fuckas!!!!

[ThatsMyBarack]

11. "My Best Friend's Wedding"....

Was filmed in Chicago in the mid-90s! ;)

[schmuls]

12. the part in Blues Brothers where they are going off the end of

the freeway was filmed here in Milwaukee at the end of the controversial uncompleted freeway. Parts of the new film Dillinger were filmed here in Milwaukee as well; I couldn't place anything though, probably in the third ward.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

21. Several scenes from "Major League" were shot at County Stadium

You can see a WTMJ sign in the outfield.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. My sister was a crowd extra in Major League II, filmed in Baltimore.

Apparently they filmed those movies everywhere except Cleveland.

[Tikki]

13. "The Cross-Killer"(Montecino) , Rockford Files, Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)......n/t

[lost-in-nj]

14. they filmed a scene

from
City Hall at the train station here

I thought there was a train wreck with all the lights they had
and they made it fake snow

also filmed Hackers a couple of blocks away from me
and First Born

I know there were others but not sure of them right now


lost

[peekaloo]

15. Parts of 'Edward Scissorhands'

and one currently (small indie) in post production called 'Endure'.

Central Florida.

'The Life of David Gale' (Kevin Spacey, really nice guy according to a friend who was an extra) when I lived in Austin, Tejas. *I may have the title wrong but too lazy to research*

[Patiod]

16. "Stealing Home" --- one scene shot in front of my fave lewd picture

Mark Harmon and Jodi Foster -- Set in Chestnut Hill (NW Philadelphia)

The author wrote a scene specifically to be filmed in front of a huge painting over a nearby bar, because he said he always fantasized about filming people talking about sex in front of this painting.

I wasted many, many a night sitting in front of the same painting in that same bar. RIP, Wheelpump Inn!

[BeachBaby]

17. "Jersey Girl" with Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler.

There's a scene where they're sitting in a diner, talking. That diner is the locally famous Berlin Diner. I lived about 3 miles away at the time, and word got out quickly that Ben was hanging around, chatting it up with the fans. I headed there to check things out, and sure enough - he and Liv were taking pictures with fans, while J-Lo was hunkered down in the trailer (she played a bit part, and was dating Ben at the time).

[myrna minx]

18. Fargo and a whole host of others.

Minneapolis in the 1990's had several feature films shot here.

[guitar man]

19. The Outsiders

I was living in Tulsa for a part of the time they were filming it.

[PassingFair]

20. They are filming the remake of "Red Dawn" here in Pontiac...

made me late for a meeting yesterday!

Pontiac is confusing enough without all
the street closures!

[bikebloke]

22. The Crew

When I lived briefly in Miami Beach, they were filming all around there.

Summer Lovers
I was travelling through Greece, while they were filming through Greece. I was always a day early or a day late to be an extra.

They're always filming something in DC. Too many to name.

[Orsino]

23. The Mosquito Coast.

The opening aerial shots were filmed in Rome, Georgia, in 1986.

Town leaders were really excited about Hollywood putting the city on the map, we heard. Then the movie came out, in which Harrison Ford's in-character musing on the scenery consisted of, "This place is a toilet." :rofl:

[Brickbat]

24. Oh, I forgot about "Untamed Heart." It was shot in Minneapolis and I lived in the neighborhood much

of it was shot. When she's being chased by the river it drives me crazy, because it appears to show her crossing bridges that don't exist and running away from things by running towards them.

[rubberducky]

26. American Grafitti Made in Modesto,CA when I lived there.

It was pretty exciting and really cool to see the roads we used every day on the big screen. Lucas was from Modesto.

[MilesColtrane]

27. "Logan's Run"

[jobycom]

28. A lot in Austin, but when I lived in nearby Elgin they filmed Varsity Blues.

I remember because we were eating in the one restaurant in town and they kept filming a pickup truck with a flag waving behind it driving down the main street.

Austin has a lot of movies filmed here. Robert Rodriquez especially likes it.

[Arugula Latte]

29. Quite a few films were made in San Francisco when I lived there.

Pacific Heights, Casualties of War, Another 48 Hours, Eve of Destruction, Dying Young, The Doors, The Doctor, etc.

[KamaAina]

30. The remake of Shaft.

I'd often walk past the trailers on my way back from Columbia Medical Center to 148th and Bway.

edit: spelling; also "Pearl Harbor" while in Honolulu, but not right in my neighborhood, and besides, :puke:

[brendan120678]

31. Parts of Ken Burns' documentary "The War" have been filed here....

And it predates my residency, but the movie "Stanley & Iris" was filed here.

[Twillig]

32. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

They filmed at the state hospital in Salem, OR. You can see the "Duck X-ing" sign on Center
street (which goes to the hospital) as they take the bus to the coast.

I remember they had big-ass lights that they had parked in front of the hospital for a couple days.

[wickerwoman]

33. Alien vs. Predator

was shooting in Prague the summer I lived there. One of the scenes was shot across the street from the school where I was teaching.

[JPZenger]

34. Trading Places in Center City Phila.

It was great to walk out the theater in Center City Phila in 1984 and we were all pointing to places and saying - hey we just saw that, we just saw that ...

However, in the movie they felt that the modernistic police station didn't look like a real police station, so they used the Community College.

[LibertyLover]

35. Parts of "Patriot Games"

were filmed in Annapolis, where I live. I saw the movie in a local movie theater and it was great fun to watch the camera pan back and follow Harrison Ford as he drove away from the Naval Academy and out Rowe Blvd. But then it got weird. From Rowe Blvd, he was magically transported to Riva Road, a good couple of miles away, and an entrance ramp to Route 50. The signage said IIRC Baltimore. Well, 50 doesn't go to Baltimore. Then of course as the car went up the entrance ramp the scene switched to a freeway out in Los Angeles. Everyone in the theater burst into laughter.

[MidwestRick]

36. Dark Knight

Was filmed primarily in the city of Chicago, right around the corner from my office on Wacker. The scenes shown "underground" are actually from Lower Wacker. The cast trailers were just a block over, but never did see any of them since most of the filming took place in the evening when I was already home.

[Sequoia]

37. The Doors

in Venice, CA. I was down there when they were actually filming in and sat in a place where the crew was having a beer. A few weeks down the road I was approached by someone who asked me if I would like to review the movie and give my opinion before it was released.

[mzteris]

39. here's a couple:

Sally Fields and Tommy Jones in "Backroads" filmed in Mobile, AL in 1980.

"Bull Durham" filmed in - where else? - Durham, NC.

[Rhythm]

40. "Shallow Hal" was filmed all over the Charlotte area right before i moved...

It's my 'homesick' movie now, because i can watch it, and drive Lyric crazy going "I've been there, and there, and there..."

Drives me crazy, though, that they misrepresent some of the geography. Like making it look like it's an all day drive to get from the rehab hospital to the Double Door Inn, which is NOT in the mountains, and is in fact just a couple of miles away. *headexplode*

[RoyGBiv]

41. Twister ...

I'm not proud.

[AllenVanAllen]

42. Reality Bites

Starring Janeane Garofalo, Winona Ryder, Ethan hawk and Steve Zahn. It was about Gen-X graduates facing life in Houston.





I don't live in the part of town it was filmed in anymore but I loved it when I did. It's way cooler than the suburbs.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

43. "Tequila Sunrise"

It was a real kick to see scenes in the movie that were places I drove all the time!

And I remember seeing the barricades up when they were doing it...

Very cool!