# Has the place where you grew up ever been in a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274 "2003-10-19T00:23:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/41 "2003-10-19T18:21:10Z")
San Francisco has been the location for many movies, so I will choose the one that came closest - [Murder in the First](http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0113870/) was filmed (in part) right outside my apartment, the day I was finished moving in. They spent most of the day on it, and - for reasons I’ve never been able to establish - had the cable car running backwards. Christian Slater isn’t as tall as you would think 😉 Unlike most of the people you meet here, I am a native - the hospital where I was born is five blocks away. This is an older neighborhood, so the buildings look authentic for older movies - and the hills are popular for car chases. I’ve seen Eddie Murphy films nearby, and far too much Nash Bridges. The church in which I was married featured in one of the Dirty Harry movies, and I never go through Church Street Station without remembering another where the chase scene lead through there. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/42 "2003-10-19T18:28:11Z")
I live in Utah… most of your non-spaghetti westerns have been filmed, at least in part, in Southern Utah. Including the Hulk. I have mentioned before that **The Satnd** was filmed here. The part where Rob Lowe meets Bill Faggerbakke is three blocks away from my house. I worked at the train station for a couple years. There was a really bad teen flick form about 85 that was filmed in the high school up the street from me. It was called three oclock high or some something like that. I’ve never seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/43 "2003-10-19T18:28:53Z")
Well, _kinda_ . . . I was born and raised on the Main Line of _The Philadelphia Story_ . . . But the film (both interiors and exteriors) was shot on a Hollywood soundstage. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/44 "2003-10-19T18:31:28Z")
GOOD FREAKING HELL! I gotta larn to profread! **The STAND** is what I meant… slinks off in embarrassment ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/45 "2003-10-19T19:20:47Z")
The small town where I grew up has featured in some movies. **An Officer and a Gentleman** there and in several other Washington (state) locations. Also **Snow Falling on Cedars**. The court scenes were in a room in our post office as well as the part where the Japanese internees are waiting for the ferry. Also I believe some interior shots in someone’s home, but I’m not sure which. There’s a good shot of two brothers I know waiting with the rest of the internees and in the same scene you can see a girl I went to high school with right behind Ethan Hawke. Also **Enough** with Jennifer Lopez (the movie where she kicks her abusive husbands ass). I didn’t see it but it sounds like quite a bit was filmed here. Some of my friends were extras in it, not to mention my friend’s dad’s garbage can. (Apparently smashed up in a chase scene. Intentionally, they payed him for it). Also **The Ring**. I haven’t seen it and don’t know how much of my town is in it. Looking on the IMDB I find that my hometown was also the location for Robert Altman’s TV version of **The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial** (1984). In fact, it appears to have been the sole location. Also a 1984 movie **Kid Colter** , which appears to have been filmed only in my hometown and another nearby town. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/46 "2003-10-19T19:30:58Z")
_Mr. Holland’s Opus_ was filmed in Portland, OR. The football field was at my high school(but not the school for exterior shots.) Also, the parade scene was filmed in my neighborhood. The part where he says goodbye to Roweena at the bus stop is in front of the store my grandmother used to work at. I recognize tons of other shots, but those were the closest to where I actually grew up. ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/47 "2003-10-19T19:45:02Z")
A lot of movies, including Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, High Crimes, Bicentennial Man, The Rainmaker, What Dreams May Come, Star Trek IV, Flubber, Bandits, Copycat, 40 Days and 40 Nights. Ironically, there’s not a single movie theater in the whole town. ---
**Author:** ![heimarkj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c2a13f/32.png) [@heimarkj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heimarkj)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/48 "2003-10-19T20:48:46Z")
A River Runs Through It, The Horse Whisperer, and Amazing Grace and Chuck…some of the movies filmed in the Paradise Valley where I grew up in Montana ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/49 "2003-10-19T21:04:30Z")
_Cross of Fire_, about a powerful 1920’s Klansman and his trial for murder, was filmed here in Topeka, Kansas, although the action was set in Indiana. Brooke Shields and Richard Thomas were in a movie titled “I Can Make You Love Me”, based on the actual stalking of a woman named Laura Black. A set of local offices stood in for the workplace that got shot up by Thomas’ character. Don’t remember where the original events actually unfolded. ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/50 "2003-10-19T22:26:56Z")
My town, Fairhaven, MA, has been in two feature-length films. **Down to the Sea in Ships** , filmed in 1921, is a silent film that was Clara Bow’s first or second film, depending upon the source one reads. It was filmed in New Bedford and Fairhaven, MA. **Passionada** , which was released this August, and is now playing in about one theater nationwide, was also filmed in New Bedford, Fairhaven and other nearby towns. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/51 "2003-10-19T23:01:38Z")
[Karniggels](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102190/) has some recognizable locations of Bargteheide where I went to school. One of the town’s few claims to fame… ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/52 "2003-10-19T23:32:48Z")
[Meet the Applegates](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0100129/) was filmed in and around my hometown of Neenah, Wisconsin. Unfortunately, it was a pretty horrible movie. ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/53 "2003-10-19T23:49:59Z")
I don’t think there’s been one in my hometown, but I went to college about ten miles from Dillsboro, NC, where they filmed the train wreck scene in _The Fugitive_. The train is still there, it’s something of a minor tourist attraction. ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/54 "2003-10-20T02:25:58Z")
There are a couple that were filmed around my city (Kamloops, BC). An episode of the X-Files was filmed near here. I forget the plot now, but I remember that episode featured shots of partially covered ginseng fields. Also, two quite recent films made good use of the scenery around here, The Sweet Hereafter (Ian Holm) and The Pledge (Jack Nicholson). I think we stood in for Nevada in the Pledge. J ennifer Lopez and Morgan Freeman just filmed a movie using locations right in town. As far as I know, this will be the only film to actually feature the city itself. I’m not sure of the title, or when it will be out, though. She stars as a poor single mother, I believe. Let me tell you, that sure got ridiculous amounts of excitement in this town! ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/55 "2003-10-20T05:22:54Z")
The house from Macaulay Culkin’s _The Good Sun_ was built on my town beach, in Beverly, MA. The indoor scenes from the 1996 version of _The Crucible_ were shot in the old factory that became my office, also in Beverly. And, parts of the original (1968) _Thomas Crown Affair_ was shot in Beverly Farms, the ritzy upscale part of town for which Beverly Hills, CA was named. ---
**Author:** ![censored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@censored](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/censored)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/56 "2003-10-20T05:36:49Z")
Like **Rico** , I am from Pacific Palisades as well. My high school, Palisades High, has been filmed for _Freaky Friday_, _Crazy/Beautiful_, _Old School_, and the TV show _Popular_. I think there may be more. Plus what’s in the town, as **Rico** ascribed to. Here at UCSD, the oddly-shaped Geisel Library has been in some B-movie, the name of which escapes me. ---
**Author:** ![Sonyadora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sonyadora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonyadora)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/57 "2003-10-20T05:38:04Z")
Rockville MD is the scene for quite a lot of bits of the X Files, but I’m not sure if any of these were actually filmed there. Lots of things have been filmed in San Diego CA, although off the top of my head I can only think of the bar scenes in **Top Gun** for some reason. I doubt anything I’d ever have a chance of seeing has been filmed in Yokosuka Japan, but it wasn’t a very inspiring place. ---
**Author:** ![Sonyadora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sonyadora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonyadora)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/58 "2003-10-20T05:40:11Z")
And the corn field in **Field of Dreams** was near the town that my dad’s side of the family hails from. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/59 "2003-10-20T05:54:37Z")
LOTS! The one’s I think were the closest to my actual growing-up 'hood were some race film starring Richard Greco, right on my street and a film called “Veils” or something like that, in my old school. More recently, part of the miniseries “Carrie” was filmed in my son’s old school just across the park from where we live now. There have been a number of movies and TV shows around Burnaby and New Westminster lately. They just finished "I Robot with Will Smith down on Front Street. My only claim to fame was working with a rat on the set of the TV show “The Fearing Mind” - yeah, I know, it only went thirteen eps on the Sci Fi Channel. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274/60 "2003-10-20T05:59:15Z")
The movie _Stripes_ was shot partially in Louisville, KY (which is right across the Ohio River from me). In fact, the beginning with Bill Murray stopping his taxi on the bridge was filmed on a bridge that I’ve walked across (The Kennedy Bridge features a sidewalk spanning the Ohio River. You can walk from Louisville into Jeffersonville, Indiana). The indie film _Traveller_, starring Bill Paxton, makes mention of Louisville as a place they need to travel to. The indie film _Lawn Dogs_, starring Angie Harmon and Sam Rockwell, was also filmed in a suburb of Louisville. Parts of _Eight Men Out_ were shot in Louisville at Churchill Downs (home of the Kentucy Derby) because of the twin spires that were supposed to pass for an old baseball stadium. Parts of _Demolition Man_ and _The Insider_ were also shot here. Some of _A League of Their Own_ was shot in Evansville, Indiana, which is about 2 hours due west of me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-place-where-you-grew-up-ever-been-in-a-movie/208274.md?page=4)