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

[Crotalus]

@Rilchiam

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 Deaneshow 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.

[CalMeacham]

@BurnMeUp

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.

[sitchensis]

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

[Skywatcher]

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.