Michigan - Die Hard II was filmed here in Alpena, since they wanted snow. Of course, it was the warmest winter in quite a while, so they had to bring in the snow machines anyhow.
Anatomy of a Murder with Jimmy Stewart, Lee Remick and several other notables was the true (semi) story of a murder up in the UP
Then of course there was Bird on A Wire with the famous Detroit to Racine Wisconsin ferry ( :rolleyes: ) , but it also had Mel, so who cared.
And a whole lotta stories about D-troit,
and the one about the Battle Creek guy who started Kellogs?
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Adventures in Babysitting
Call Northside 777
Carmen Jones
Eight Men Out
The Front Page
Risky Business
Some Like It Hot
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Ref w/ Dennis Leary. Amistad. In Dumb&Dumber Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels drove through Connecticut to get from Rhode Island to Vermont. Those are all I can think off.
There are way too many movies about California. If I were to reduce it to county, that would be L.A., also that would bore you to tears. So let’s go with city–Long Beach–that would be Gone in Sixty Seconds. Baywatch was also filmed at the Long Beach Harbor.
BTW. Some of the outside scene for that Gone with the Wind Part 2 (Scarlett) was filmed at the park which is within a few mile of my home even though it was suppose to be Georgia. I find it interesting to see places I go to in movies, and I don’t mean those touristy places, but places like shopping centers.
If you see a movie/TV show with a large, blue pyramid, that is in Long Beach. The pyramid is a basketball gymnasium at the Cal State University of LB.
Well, most of the movies about New York take place in the city. There’s probably one or two from not-the-city, like me, but I can’t think of any. There was that movie Lake Placid, and Lake Placid is somewhere near me, but I think for the purposes of the movie it was in Maine, or else they filmed it in Maine or somethign. Last summer they filmed some movie in Buffalo but I don’t remember what.
I used to live in Humboldt County, northern CA:
Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Salem’s Lot (TV)
A Death in Canaan (TV)
Heroes (argh. starring Fonzie)
Halloween III (ARGH)
Outbreak
Return of the Jedi (technically, Del Norte county)
Current home of Seattle, WA:
Five Easy Pieces
The Last Detail
Little Buddha
Love Stinks
Assassins
Some Elvis poop about the World’s Fair
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Sleepless in…
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Strange: the Seattle scene were filmed in Tacoma and the Tacoma scenes were filmed in Seattle.)
Johnstown (I should know, I was born there):
“Get me a generic dying steel town!”
All the Right Moves
Slap Shot
Gravy Train, aka The Dion Brothers
In and around Pittsburgh:
The Deer Hunter
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Flashdance (?) – was supposed to be set there but was filmed elswhere, I think
Innocent Blood
Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead
Striking Distance
Sudden Death
In and around Philly:
Philadelphia
Rocky I, etc.
The Sixth Sense
Witness
Groundhog Day, while set in Punxsutawney, was actually filmed mainly in a small town in Wisconsin, IIRC.
Both Grumpy Old Men movies were made in Minnesota. Part of The Mighty Ducks was filmed in the old courthouse right here in St. Cloud, Minnesota. I believe that Jingle All the Way, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, was partially filmed in and around the Twin Cities. There are probably more that I can’t think of right off hand.
Something sort of like this was done about six months ago. Someone asked for a movie set in every state and we came up with a fairly complete list. I don’t know how to search for that thread.
Probably about half of all westerns made were set in Texas and I don’t feel like going into that. But The Last Picture Show was set near where I live and Texasville was filmed in Wichita Falls (though I have no idea where it is set since I have never seen the movie). And some movie with Emilio Estevez was set in Wichita Falls but I have no idea what the name was nor do I feel like looking it up. Goodness, I just have nothing interesting to say.
New Mexico in general and Santa Fe in particular show up in the damnedest movies. Not just the obvious stuff, like City Slickers and Young Guns, but some you wouldn’t think of, like Twins (remember that Schwarzenegger/DeVito flick?) and John Carpenter’s Vampires. In fact, Vampires shows the very Santa Fe church (St. Michael’s Cathedral) in which my brother was married.
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