Films Made Or Set In Your Hometown

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Jeff Kent, Feb 10, 2019.

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  1. joefont

    joefont Senior Member

    Hey, I used to live up in Wilderness Rim!
     
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  2. Larry Mc

    Larry Mc Forum Dude

    They're filming this weekend at "Lovers Point". nicole kidman is shooting some scenes for "Big Little Lies"
     
  3. musicfan37

    musicfan37 Senior Member

    How long ago?
     
  4. Pinknik

    Pinknik Senior Member

    Apparently, Drew Barrymore is filming something right now in Versailles, Kentucky. Thus sayeth the radio DJ.
     
  5. joefont

    joefont Senior Member

    joefont said:
    Hey, I used to live up in Wilderness Rim!

    Moved down to California in '97. Couldn't stand the rain anymore!
     
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  6. PTgraphics

    PTgraphics Senior Member

    “Nobody’s Fool” starring Paul Newman, etc. It was filmed in the Hudson Valley but mainly in Beacon, NY. I used to live at the foot of Mount Beacon and later near Poughkeepsie where other scenes were shot.
     
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  7. stanley00

    stanley00 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Nowhere USA
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  8. steve phillips

    steve phillips Forum Resident

    Location:
    NC
    Bull Durham
     
  9. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    As he was from Kansas City, Robert Altman filmed Kansas City here. The set for the Jazz Club was actually a former Wendy's.
     
  10. darkmass

    darkmass Forum Resident

  11. jwoverho

    jwoverho Licensed Drug Dealer

    Location:
    Mobile, AL USA
    Paducah, KY:
    Raintree County
    How The West Was Won
    The River Rat
    In Country
    U.S. Marshalls
     
  12. Fastnbulbous

    Fastnbulbous Doubleplus Ungood

    Location:
    Washington DC USA
    For all the movies and TV shows set in Washington, almost none are actually shot here.
     
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  13. Jimmy Disco D

    Jimmy Disco D Forum Resident

    Location:
    Shropshire, UK
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    Not quite in my hometown (sorry OP) but in a very nearby village... Hugh Grant in The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain. A couple of my friends were extras (typecast as miserable Welshmen :laugh:)

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  14. Macman

    Macman Senior Member

    Halifax.

    Titanic (parts of)
    The Shipping News (parts of)
    Dolores Claiborne
    The Hanging Garden
    K-19: The Widowmaker
    The Lighthouse
    Outlander (parts of)
    Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
    Two If By Sea
    The Weight of Water
    Love and Death on Long Island
    Ghost Ship
    A Rumor of Angels
    Moby Dick (2011 remake)
    Bag of Bones (TV movie)
    Jesse Stone TV movies
    The Mist TV series
    Haven TV series (parts of)
     
  15. JoeOnWheels

    JoeOnWheels Forum Resident

    Location:
    Loveland CO USA
    I was a resident of Lawrence, Kansas during the production of THE DAY AFTER, a made-for-tv movie, in 1982. Hundreds, if not thousands, of students and under-employed locals were found jobs as radiation-poisoned extras. Garage sales were cleaned out all over town to provide rubble. I recall walking downtown to check out the used record stores inventory and finding the street strewn with overturned cars and assorted debris.
    The production raised awareness regarding the finality of nuclear war and provided a jolt for the Lawrence economy. The movie itself was a phenomena in 1983, worth checking out.

    "Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches, the other seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well, that’s the kind of situation we are actually in.” Carl Sagan, participant in the live panel discussion following the initial screening of THE DAY AFTER on ABC.
     
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  16. Spaghettiows

    Spaghettiows Forum Resident

    Location:
    Silver Creek, NY
    Buffalo, NY

    Hide In Plain Sight - 1978 - James Caan
    Best Friends - 1982 - Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn
    The Natural - 1984 - Robert Redford
    Bruce Almighty - 2003 - Jim Carrey, Steve Carell
     
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  17. sgtmono

    sgtmono Seasoned Member

    Back To School - Rodney Dangerfield
     
  18. mr. k

    mr. k Master of the Rummage (retired)

    Location:
    The Netherlands
    Much of Wolf Rilla's 1960 version of The Village of the Damned was shot in Hertfordshire (UK), not far from where I was living at the time.

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  19. the pope ondine

    the pope ondine Forum Resident

    Location:
    Virginia

    that hillside :love::love::love:
     
  20. Trace

    Trace Senior Member

    Location:
    Washington State
    I was an extra in Vision Quest. It was filmed in Spokane, WA where I lived and went to school at the time.

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    If I remember correctly, Madonna filmed her performance at a local watering hole.
     
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  21. GregM

    GregM The expanding man

    Location:
    Bay Area, CA
    I've lived/worked in the major metropolitan areas on the coasts, including the NY metro area, DC metro area, LA metro area and SF metro area, so this covers many of the settings of major studio releases. In one recent example, my office is near Fisherman's wharf in San Fran, where the famous scene in Ant Man and the Wasp was shot.
     
  22. Leviethan

    Leviethan Forum Resident

    Location:
    Portland, OR
    My whole family is from Mansfield. I’ve been there many times since the late 70s.
     
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  23. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

    Location:
    Central PA
    1999's Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, was filmed in nearby Mechanicsburg (across the river from Harrisburg) and Harrisburg's old, relatively-abandoned hospital up on 3rd Street. I was living in Hershey at the time, working In Elizabethtown, then Harrisburg.
     
  24. Hall Cat

    Hall Cat Senior Member

    Location:
    Chicago, IL USA
    One of my favorites - The Spook Who Sat by the Door
     
  25. InStepWithTheStars

    InStepWithTheStars It's a miracle, let it alter you

    Location:
    North Carolina
    My roommate from college came from the same town as a director of intentionally horrible B-movie slasher films. Even though they were shot on the outskirts of his hometown, he didn't realize it until he went into one of his classes and recognized an actress from the movie! Turns out that the director was a perfectionist to the point of being abusive, even though the movies are intentionally terrible. The next year, one of his friends ended up working with that director on another project and confirmed that he was indeed a pain to work with. I'd post some titles, but they're not exactly appropriate for this forum. Just know that my roommate loves terrible movies - the worse, the better. That should give you an idea...
     
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