# Movies that Take Place in Your State **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529 "2000-09-26T00:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/41 "2000-09-26T14:42:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > **Lethal weapon 3** Set in CA, but it was the old Orlando City Hall that was blown up in the beginning of the movie. (Roommate travelled into town and said it was fun to watch.) Replaced by an ugly building with an even uglier sculpture of a glass asparagus in the courtyard. ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/42 "2000-09-26T15:06:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OrcaChow \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by OrcaChow \* > > Current home of Seattle, WA: > > … > > Love Stinks > > … > > That should be **Reality Bites** , not Love Stinks. Ummm, no. That would be Houston, not Seattle. Others set in Texas, just to name a few: _Places in the Heart Giant The Alamo Terms of Endearment Dazed and Confused Bonnie and Clyde JFK Lone Star True Stories_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/43 "2000-09-26T15:21:31Z")
More films set (at least in part) in **Georgia** : [ul][li]Gone With the Wind (of course)[/li][li]Forrest Gump - The park bench is in Savannah.[/li][li]Tobacco Road[/li][li]Scream 2[/li]Driving Miss Daisy[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/44 "2000-09-26T15:26:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rasa \* > \*\*Most of the Farrely brothers movies have been filmed partly in my hometown, where they’re from… though when they show “Cumberland High School” in Something About Mary, it most definitely is NOT the real Cumberland High School in RI. \*\* A couple of my friends grew up in Cumberland. They think that the High School in the movie is one in Pawtucket. ---
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/45 "2000-09-26T15:45:36Z")
Some more cool Baltimore flicks: Twelve Monkeys & Silence of the Lambs. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/46 "2000-09-26T16:21:29Z")
**Alabama** [ul] [li]“The Grass Harp”[/li][li]“To Kill a Mockingbird”[/li][li]“The Long Walk Home”[/li][li]“Forrest Gump”[/li][li]“My Cousin Vinny” (the case they try before the Honorable Fred Gwyn was in Alabama.) :)[/li][li]“Fried Green Tomatoes”[/li][li]“Crazy in Alabama”[/li][li]“Con Air” (the prison to which the convicts were being transferred was in Alabama)[/li][li]“Sweet Home Alabama” (in production)[/li][li]“4 Little Girls”[/li][li]“Wallace”[/li][li]“Eyes on the Prize”[/li][li]“Alabama: 2000 Light Years”[/li][li]Another Part of the Forest[/li][li]"The Bear[/li][li]“Blue Sky”[/li][li]“The Fighting Kentuckian”[/li][li]“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”[/li][li]“Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys”[/li][li]“Maximum Carnage”[/li][li]“Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision”[/li][li]“Miss Evers’ Boys”[/li][li]“Norma Rae”[/li][li]“Nothing But a Man”[/li][li]"The Phenix City Story[/li][li]“Polly: Comin’ Home!”[/li][li]“Selma, Lord, Selma”[/li][li]“Separated by Murder”[/li][li]“Swing!”[/li][li]“The Symbol of the Unconquered”[/li][li]“Wild River”[/li][/ul] The above list is mostly from my own little cranium, but IMDB helped a bit. The thing that always gets me about movies set in the South is that they seem, almost without exception, to have a powerful sense of place. People set movies in the South for the sole purpose of having _that certain feel._ I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie set in the South just to have a generic place. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/47 "2000-09-26T16:38:12Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Starbury:_ > A couple of my friends grew up in Cumberland. They think that the High School in the movie is one in Pawtucket. I think it was somewhere in Florida or California… the high schools in our humble little state aren’t that nice, unfortunately! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/48 "2000-09-26T16:38:41Z")
Indiana: Hoosiers Breaking Away Knute Rockne: All American Rudy and I believe, A League of Their Own ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/49 "2000-09-26T16:50:19Z")
Hey, **Illinois** , you forgot **Vacation** (unless I missed it) which I will now include in my list. **Vacation** (that was lovely image of St. Louis they gave) **Tom Sawyer** (all of the movies) **Smokey and the Bandit** (passing through again) **The Day After** I’m sure there are some more really obvious ones but that’s what I can think of right now. Maybe some Jesse James movies or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/50 "2000-09-26T16:53:13Z")
More from Minnesota A Simple Plan Untamed Heart Twenty Bucks Also, I believe the working title of “Fargo” was actually “Brainerd”, but they realized no one knew where Brainerd was. and isn’t Reality Bites set and filmed in Austin TX, NOT Houston? How about Utah? SLC Punk Ruben and Ed Plan 10 from Outer Space ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/51 "2000-09-26T16:56:35Z")
By the way, a lot of the John Hughes movies were from Illinois. that includes Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Weird Science. Of course we discover in Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” which starts in IL, that there is no town called Shermer in Illinois. ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/52 "2000-09-26T17:23:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ivar \* > and isn’t Reality Bites set and filmed in Austin TX, NOT Houston? Again, ummm, no. Filmed in various Houston neighborhoods and landmarks - Montrose, House of Pies, Enron Building, etc. I lived there at the time it was being filmed, so I’m pretty certain it was Houston. 😉 Here’s the cite from the [IMDB](http://us.imdb.com/Locations?0110950). ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/53 "2000-09-26T17:49:09Z")
**Meet Me In St. Louis The Shepherd of the Hills Kansas City The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery** The rockumentory **Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll** The made for TV movie **Asteroid** ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/54 "2000-09-26T18:30:50Z")
I can’t think of too many set in Missouri or St Louis. In **Planes, Trains, and Automobiles** there’s a couple scenes that take place and were filmed here in St Louis. (When Steve Martin cusses out the rental car lady) **National Lampoon’s Vacation** has a scene when the Grizwolds stop and ask for directions that takes plce in St Louis. (While stopped, their hubcaps are stolen, and the car gets spray painted) Anything filmed about Jesse and Frank James. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer films. Of course, there’s **Meet Me in St Louis** , but that’s a Judy Garland musical, so we try to keep it quiet. **Escape From New York** was filmed in St Louis cuz downtown was such a pit at the time. It’s been cleaned up since then. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/55 "2000-09-26T19:58:56Z")
I, too, am going to skip Los Angeles, except to list the ones I’ve actually witnessed being made: _Another 48 Hours Guilt By Association National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon Life Stinks Escape From L.A._ > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kepi \* > \*\*Others set in Texas, just to name a few: > > _Places in the Heart_\*\* Filmed in Waxahachie, twenty-plus miles south of Dallas, and twenty miles east of where my mother lives today. _Trip to Bountiful_ and _Tender Mercies_ were filmed here, as well. > [@](#): > > _ **The Alamo** _ Visited the set with my Daddy on our motorcycles back in '78. > [@](#): > > _ **Bonnie and Clyde** _ Witnessed the filming, only nine years old at the time. Other movies filmed (totally or partially) in or near Dallas that I have seen: _Logan’s Run Armageddon Bull Durham_ The interview at the end of the flick was filmed at Arlington Stadium; the rest was filmed in North Carolina. _State Fair_ Musical starring Pat Boone _The Apostle Talk Radio Batman & Robin_ According to IMDB. But I have no idea which parts. _Born on the Fourth of July Robocop_ Dallas stands in for Detroit _Semi-Tough Benji Necessary Roughness Problem Child Strategic Air Command (1955) The Big Show_(1936) starring Gene Autry with a cameo singing appearance by Roy Rogers, as a memeber of the Sons of the Pioneers, before he was famous. Filmed at the Texas Centennial. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529/56 "2000-09-26T20:06:43Z")
Ok, after a night of random thinking… As someone else mentioned, **Last of the Mohicans** was set up near Lake George but filmed in NC. However, one scene in the movie was filmed on location. I forget which one it is, but when I went to camp back in middle school my counselor took us on a hike up to the top of a mountain to look off it, it was the very mountain they did a location shot from for the movie. The non-trip parts of Road Trip are set at Ithaca College. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-in-your-state/34529.md?page=2)