# Can you think of any movie that is set... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254 "2015-09-23T01:21:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/61 "2015-09-23T19:51:12Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I don’t know of any flicks set in the New Jersey of my childhood Where in Jersey, **Cal**? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/62 "2015-09-23T20:21:33Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The Thing? The 1982 version took place in Antarctica and was filmed in British Columbia. The 2011 version was also filmed in Canada. The 1951 film The Thing from Another World was set in the Arctic, and was filmed in Glacier National Park and on sets in a Los Angeles ice storage plant. ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/63 "2015-09-23T21:18:20Z")
The movie [Breaking Away](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/) took place where I grew up - Bloomington, Indiana. The story was mostly BS. No one called the locals “Cutters”. All of the university staff, and a large portion of the student body were locals. The Little 500 was a FratRat event. Just like a lot of other movies the geographic connections were wrong - X street doesn’t connect to Y street, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/64 "2015-09-23T21:41:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The 1982 version took place in Antarctica and was filmed in British Columbia. The 2011 version was also filmed in Canada. The 1951 film The Thing from Another World was set in the Arctic, and was filmed in Glacier National Park and on sets in a Los Angeles ice storage plant. Right, but did it capture the experience of growing up in Alaska? :dubious: For me, it was _My Three Sons._ Early 60’s, suburban California. Ernie? That kid was _me…_ Plaid shirt, horn-rimmed glasses… we were in color, though. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/65 "2015-09-23T21:46:51Z")
I grew up in a small town and I can’t think of any movie that remind me of it. Mommy Dearest would had been close if was Daddy Dearest ! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/66 "2015-09-23T22:34:32Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > **Deliverance** takes place in Rabun County in northeastern Georgia. Bah! I was thinking of The Deer Hunter…I always confuse those two for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/67 "2015-09-23T23:51:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Movies like _ **Graffiti** _, which was inspired by Lucas’s teen years in California, could take place in just about any American community. True, but _The Gathering_ (1977) was specifically about a New England Christmas. The producers chose Hudson, Ohio - my hometown - because thanks to first, history (it was part of the Western Reserve of Connecticut, and primarily settled by New Englanders), and second, a historic-preservation covenant that has kept the village essentially unchanged for over a hundred years, Hudson has a very New-England-y vibe - a common, a clock town, large Congregational church, that sort of thing. Fun fact (…okay, boring facts, but I’m gonna inflict 'em on you anyway): Hudson was the hometown of John Brown, and the original site of Western Reserve University, which merged with Case Institute of Technology to become Case Western Reserve University. > [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > **Deliverance** takes place in Rabun County in northeastern Georgia. Filmed there, too. Well, along the Ocoee River, anyway. > [@buddha\_david](#): > > _Boogie Nights,_ set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970’s. Undoubtedly there are others. > > In fact, Jack Horner’s pool & cabana looks almost exactly like my grandparents’ pool & cabana where I’d spend every weekend. No porn was ever filmed there, though (as far as I know.) Best you not inquire too deeply. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/68 "2015-09-23T23:54:57Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Bah! I was thinking of The Deer Hunter…I always confuse those two for some reason. :eek::eek: But who would you rather have been? John Savage in DH or Ned Beatty in Deliverance? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/69 "2015-09-24T00:22:59Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > :eek::eek: > > But who would you rather have been? John Savage in DH or Ned Beatty in Deliverance? Hrmmmmmmm:dubious: Are you asking whether I’d rather be for sure ass raped by hillbillies or play Russian roulette and possibly die? I’d choose Russian roulette Now if you are asking if which character I’d rather be as shown throughout the entire movies, I’d have to re-watch them both again before I could make a decision…and while I remember tham both to be pretty good movies, I 'd racall them being so good that I need to watch either of them ever again. Or at least not for a while. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/70 "2015-09-24T00:27:30Z")
I didn’t love the show but \*\*Freaks and Geeks \*\*was a generic enough location and the time was dead right for me. It rang true enough, stoners, geeks and nothing too exiting to do. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/71 "2015-09-24T00:38:05Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I didn’t love the show but \*\*Freaks and Geeks \*\*was a generic enough location and the time was dead right for me. It rang true enough, stoners, geeks and nothing too exiting to do. It was actually set in Detroit, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/72 "2015-09-24T00:53:01Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Right, but did it capture the experience of growing up in Alaska? :dubious: I’m assuming that’s a whoosh, right? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/73 "2015-09-24T01:00:59Z")
Well, it wasn’t set in a Dallas suburb, but “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” certainly captured the booze, drugs, cars, and stupidity of my 1981 senior year pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/74 "2015-09-24T01:02:50Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Hrmmmmmmm:dubious: > > Are you asking whether I’d rather be for sure ass raped by hillbillies or play Russian roulette and possibly die? I’d choose Russian roulette > > Now if you are asking if which character I’d rather be as shown throughout the entire movies, I’d have to re-watch them both again before I could make a decision…and while I remember tham both to be pretty good movies, I 'd racall them being so good that I need to watch either of them ever again. Or at least not for a while. Deliverance is a movie you only watch once. DH was good but moves at a snails pace. It does have some excellent performances though. Answering my own hypopthetical I think I would rather be Beatty. He survived the rape. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/75 "2015-09-24T01:24:27Z")
I haven’t seen **Black Mass** yet. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/76 "2015-09-24T01:25:45Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Deliverance is a movie you only watch once. DH was good but moves at a snails pace. It does have some excellent performances though. > > Answering my own hypopthetical I think I would rather be Beatty. He survived the rape. I seem to remember the Russian roulette dude survived as well because the bullet just grazed him, or some such. It’s been a long time so I don’t quite remember. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/77 "2015-09-24T01:29:16Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > It was actually set in Detroit, I believe. Really, I thought it was suburbia. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/78 "2015-09-24T01:31:05Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I seem to remember the Russian roulette dude survived as well because the bullet just grazed him, or some such. It’s been a long time so I don’t quite remember. Its been a while for me too. I seem to remember Savage shooting himself but surviving…but never being the same. Have to watch this again…and FF through the first 45 minute wedding scene. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/79 "2015-09-24T01:32:49Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > It was actually set in Detroit, I believe. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bVDDYQlmq0w/hqdefault.jpg "kentucky fried movie take him to detroit unedited") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVDDYQlmq0w) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/80 "2015-09-24T02:45:51Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Really, I thought it was suburbia. Detroit, like most American metropolises, has suburban areas. It’s pretty common for names of large cities like “Detroit” to be used for the entire metropolitan area rather than just the legal jurisdiction of the City of Detroit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254.md?page=5)