This fairly dreadful film was filmed almost entirely around the area I live in. It was worth watching for all the “hey, that’s our local!”, and “Oooh, we’ve been in that shop!” moments.
When we watching Little Miss Sunshine the characters drove right past the theatre we were sitting in, which is maybe 5 minutes from my house.
I know some of the shots filmed in North Dakota and Minnesota for Fargo. I know the general area where they filmed the scene in which Steve Buscemi buries the money in the snow. It was up north of Grand Forks. My mom was on the set that day, interviewing the Coen brothers. She was a reporter covering the filming that was going on locally, but she didn’t really know who the Coen brothers were. To this day, she doesn’t really grasp how cool it was that she got to interview them, or watch them film that scene. She told me about how they “kept putting fake blood on some actor.” I was like, “Mom, that wasn’t ‘some actor,’ that was Steve Buscemi. That was Mister fucking PINK.” She has no idea.
The Monroeville Mall was just behind my home on Monroeville Boulevard when I lived in Monroeville, PA. Monroeville, Monroeville, Monroeville - fun to type and say in my head. Anyway, I spent far too much of my time as a pre-teen in the mall at the video arcade or ice skating.
The Monroeville Mall is the setting for the classic Dawn of the Dead. When there’s no more room in hell, the dead go shopping!!
MeanJoe
Most of Doc Hollywood was shot in Micanopy, FL, pop. 652, while I was living there. I still record it from time to time to scan through it and reminisce.
That sounds like the scene in Spaceballs where they watch the video.
“This is now now. We haven’t gotten to then yet.”
“When will now be then?”
“Soon.”
Back in 1984, the “Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall” scene from Back to the Future was being filmed at the local shopping mall, Puente Hills Mall.
At the time, I was 11 years old and didn’t know about anything being shot nearby. Well, my mother and I were walking across the parking lot from the mall to the nearby bank branch. One the way, we saw several large trucks and some covered cars in a cordoned-off area. The two cars which were covered had the wheels exposed a bit and I noticed a distinct hub cap design. I didn’t realize those were the Delorean time machines used in the film.
About 6-8 months later, I’m sitting in the movie theater on the other side of that same shopping mall. I was watching the film when Marty McFly makes it out to meet Doc in the parking lot. And guess what, there is our shopping mall! My jaws dropped in surprise and amazement. WOW! Our rinky-dink mall is in a big movie! It was a great moment for me.
The tiny fishing village I grew up in, for the first twenty years of my life, was used as a location in the Gwyneth Paltrow / Daniel Craig film about Sylvia Plath.
I haven’t actually watched the film, but I recognised the beach rock formations in the trailer.
There have been a few Law & Order scenes shot in a diner I used to frequent.
I also used to go hear live music at a bar called the Bayou, in Mt. Vernon, NY. It was used as a location for one scene in a movie starring Ashley Judd -don’t recall which, but it was especially odd to me because it was represented as being somewhere else, and nothing else in the movie was shot in Mt. Vernon, near as I could tell.
Since moving to Baltimore I’ve rewatched a lot of barry Levinson films, and Homicide: Life on the streets and recognize places but most of them aren’t “my” places.
When Big came out I had a roommate who worked for the ad agency whose offices were teh set for the toy company. Apparently a lot of their actual employees were cast as extras. The fortune teller scenes were filmed at Rye Playland, where I’ve spent a lot of time.
Anyone remember the mid-90s British crime film Face, starring Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone, and featuring Damon Albarn ('im off of what’s in Blur) in his first (and possibly only) film role?
Well, that’s my house they come out of just before the big shootout in the London Street with armed police (I think it’s actually meant to be Damon’s house in the film) - in fact the whole shootout takes place around my local streets. I didn’t live there at the time though - it was kind of a shock when this film was shown on late night telly a couple of years ago just after we’d moved in.
My local pub The Salisbury also served as a location in the films, The Long Good Friday and Chaplin.
OB
The movie Barbara was filmed largely in Tórshavn where I grew up. The outdoor scenes are mostly authentic, parts of the city really do look like that still. (The movie is set somewhere ca. 1760 if I recall corectly.)
If you ever have the misfortune to see Here We Go Around The Mulberry Bush, you can see my front door. “My” front door is stretching it, as I was about 2 when it was filmed 
Slacker was shot around town. It seemed like almost everyone in it was a friend of a friend, but that’s what Linklater was aiming for.
Famous blooper from that movie, Dustin Hoffman drives to Berkeley across the top of the Bay Bridge. The top deck is one way into San Francisco.
Anyhow, if you follow the road from your dorm up the hill past Strawberry Canyon you come first to Lawrence Berkeley Labs which was the setting for the lab scenes in the beginning of Ang Lee’s “The Hulk”, and then to the Lawrence Hall Of Science which was featured in “Colossus - The Forbin Project”.
I saw **Clueless **in a theater in Long Beach, CA very close to the area where the end of the movie was filmed.
Thought of one more. At the end of Anywhere but Here (1999), Susan Sarandon sees Natalie Portman off at LAX for her flight cross country. However, that’s clearly the international terminal she’s seeing her off at. The international terminal is big and wide and open, makes for a better wide-view closing shot, I guess, than the more closed-in domestic terminal.
(But the actual gate she goes through is somewhere else, because in the international terminal, the gates aren’t right there at the front. You have to go through security and walk a long way.)
Footloose was filmed at my highschool and the exteriors were in my town and throughout Utah Valley. I hung out with Kevin Bacon and SJ Parker before they were stars: woohoo!
It’s kind of cool to come across the movie on cable (where it seems to be on twice a day) and revisit high school ca. 1983.
Track of the Moon Beast was shot in and around Albuquerque, NM, including an exterior shot of St. Joseph’s Hospital–where I worked and taught for a year. Funny thing is, I had seen it years before I lived there, so it was quite a kick watching it again on MST several years after I left NM and saying to Mrs. Know, “Hey, I used to work there!”
The school used as the Smallville school in the Superman movie (I think Superman III) is across the street from my parents’ house, in Barons, Alberta. I honestly haven’t looked closely to see if the house is visible.
The payphone scenes in The Hunter were filmed in front of the gas station where we’d buy our Cokes & candy. Unfortunately, we moved across country the year before.