# Can you think of any movie that is set...

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/101 "2015-10-01T19:09:09Z")

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> [@Rilchiam](#):
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> How did you like **Hairspray** (either version)? Jon Waters reportedly went to infinite trouble to make both films, and the stage show, look like **Baltimore** , not any other city, and **1962** , not any other year.

I’m a bit late getting back to this. I can’t believe I forgot about Hairspray. I liked the first one best, but both evoked the Baltimore of my early childhood pretty well.

I watched the [Buddy Deane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Dean)show every day with my older sister. The Corny Collins show in the movies was modeled after that show, which ended because of integration, or the lack thereof.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/102 "2015-10-01T19:26:27Z")

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> [@BurnMeUp](#):
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> SLC Punk! is a very good representation of what life was like in the 80’s to early 90’s in Salt Lake City growing up as a punk or outsider kid. Fun fact: I know the guy that told the Evanston beer - 666 tattoo thing in real life that was coopted for the movie. I heard that story about 20 times years before the movie was even written.

I’m going to have to dig that one up. I was in SLC in the late 1980s, although not at all in the Punk scene.

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**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/103 "2015-10-01T19:30:28Z")

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Vision Quest, except for the gay guy, Madonna, and the hot girl

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**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-any-movie-that-is-set/732254/104 "2015-10-01T19:34:57Z")

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Steve McQueen’s _The Hunter_, only because the opening scenes were filmed either just before or just after we moved from the area.

_21 Jump Street_ was filmed in the high school where I spent my Junior & Senior years but didn’t recognize anything other than the stairs. I spent a lot of time on those stairs after lunch.

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