What movie did they make in your hometown?

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When I was a kid, they made "Salem's Lot" and "Halloween" very near my house. My uncle was paid $15 to put a Massachusetts plate on his Dodge in the former.

Later they made "Outbreak" and then the ass-sucking "The Majestic" but I was long gone for those.

(If you're from NYC, LA or Vancouver, just move along...)

― andy, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

A bunch of Seabiscuit was filmed here in da Lex.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Red Rock West," very exciting for my small town. My dad was a stand-in or double for Dwight Yoakam.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008NFR3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I'm even in it. Haven't seen it yet though. Maybe this weekend.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Waterland" with Jeremy Irons was filmed in my local school buildings. I wa san extra in a crowd scene.

"Wimbledon" with Kirsten Dunst in it is being filmed at the tennis.

The church from "The Omen" is just down the road from me.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

uh nothing. worcester doesn't do film.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

They filmed Back to the Future III (and maybe II, also?) by my parents' house. But now I live even closer to LA, so ... you know ... movies.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Unsaid"! what an apt title.

People remember The Omen as just a 70's horror movie, but it had Gregory Peck! Gregory Peck! That was a really good movie.

― andy, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Silence of the Lambs, Night of the Living Dead, Wonder Boys

the bit with the cage from which Hannibal Lecter escapes was in the building where my dad worked

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Tons of films at Ealing Studios!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh, which hometown? If NYC is omitted, I guess I have to omit London as well. Which leaves, erm, Albany, and, erm, Ironweed. Freaking great.

― The River Kate (kate), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Saturday Night Fever!

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen Red Rock West! It was good & creepy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, it's not bad except when you live there. For real, you saw the whole town in that movie.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado has featured in a few movies over the moons -- Some Like It Hot perhaps most famously, but also other things like The Stunt Man with Peter O'Toole. The town itself, I think, has never been featured in anything much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The one movie that I'm aware of that was filmed in Bolingbrook, Illinois, is Folks! (1992), starring Tom Selleck and Don Ameche. It was only a couple of scenes at the small private airport on the far end of town. But some kid my brother knew from Little League was cast in a speaking role, and I found it amusing years later that I could look him up on IMDB.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Stripes. And that movie, what's it called, The Insider maybe? The Michael Mann one with Pacino and Russell Crowe? Some friends of mine were PAs on that. And, uh, Half-Cocked.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

They filmed part of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train at the Danbury train station near where i grew up. they have used the Palace movie theatre in Danbury in movies too. That movie that came out a couple years ago about the reality game show where people had to run around and kill other people was all filmed around where i grew up. In New Milford where i lived and which was near where i grew up they have filmed lots of stuff. Most recently, that adam sandler movie where he owns a pizza parlor and then becomes rich. They also filmed Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House there and the book was set there too.

Strangely enough, The t.v. movie The Devil In Connecticut starring Kevin Bacon as Arnie "Cheyenne" Johnson which was about the family that lived down the road from us-they were weird, but nice enough. it wasn't their fault that their kid got possessed by the devil-was filmed in Maine!!! and not in our humble hamlet. we wuz robbed!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Logan's Run.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Baltimore =

all the John Waters films
quite a few Barry Levinson films (Diner, Tin Men, Avalon, Liberty Heights)
The Accidental Tourist
Home for the Holidays
Enemy of the State
The Replacements
Head of State
the forthcoming Ladder 49

There are more, but that's all I can think of.

I hear tell that Asia Argento is filming a movie based on a J.T. Leroy novel in my old home town of Knoxville, Tenn. That's gotta be a some kind of harbinger of the apocalypse. And Tom DeCillo shot Box of Moonlight near there too.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm from Toronto, so I'm spoiled for choice. My fave recent claim to fame is the barber shop scenes from "Undercover Brother" were filmed half a block from my apartment -- I could watch them filming from my bedroom window.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

And the University of Toronto has been the setting for loads of school-oriented movies, including Good Will Hunting.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

shallow hal!!!! also nickelodeans 'my brother and me'

― %%, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

also sleeping w the enemy ws filmed like ten miles from my house in s.c., my great uncle lowry is in it!!!!

― %%, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

part of the original kings of comedy is in charlotte too

― %%, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"sleeping w the enemy" - why did Andie fall for that dick with the lion king hair and cheek beard? God, he was awful, in his relaxed-fit Docker's and hiking boots, smiling and touching her hair.

That movie is in the horror section at my video store but it's so NOT horror.

― andy, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

haha gear wins!! though i can also claim hellraiser iii

― %%, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

American Graffiti.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I watched some of it being filmed!

also, a couple of shots in:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXC0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Rumor has it that they filmed the first ever villian-ties-damsel-in-distress-to-railroad-track scene in my previous home of Bay Shore, New York, which was very briefly something of a movie-making mecca before meddling interlopers like Hollywood came along.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

that groundhog day cover is so fucked up, it looks like its abt a talking clock voiced by bill murray that she notices trapped on her windowsill and falls in love with

― %%, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

American Graffiti... is that Petaluma?

― andy, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

They made 'The Lost Boys' where I went to college.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking of the cruising scenes in American Graffiti, which were shot along 4th Street in San Rafael. I think the drag race at the end was filmed in Petaluma, though.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in Madison, where none other than Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School was filmed on campus.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloody hell:

Purple Rain
Jingle All The Way (less than a mile from my mom's house)
That Was Then, This Is Now
Fargo
Beautiful Girls
Equinox

and tons more...

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I lied, parts of "School Ties" were filmed at Worcester Academy.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Logan's Run (but that's only if I move my 'hometown' a few miles west)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Gear!, you're from Woodstock?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303471609.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

A couple years back, I saw Don Johnson out front of a trailer filming "Nash Bridges" in San Francisco's North Beach and asked him about "Macon..." He smiled and laughed but wouldn't answer me.

― andy, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I was, long ago....

from '78 to '95 more specifically

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

In Tulsa, they filmed a lot of the se hinton book movies: the outsiders, rumble fish, etc
Also: Weird Al's "UHF"

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

If you would call where I currently reside my hometown:
Jaws
The Inkwell
Stuck on You
and probably a few others.

― Maria D., Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

hometown as in, where i grew up and not where i live now (thankfully).

Buffalo, NY

Best Friends - um, it starred Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn
The Natural
Buffalo '66
Bruce Almighty

― metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the eeriest film-going experiences I had was seeing the cinema I was sitting in on the screen. I was in West Berlin, a long time ago. It was a James Bond movie but I don't remember which one. There was a chase scene past the theater I was in.

― Maria D., Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, the MN Film Commission must promise tax breaks and whores aplenty, as much is filmed there:

Airport
Here On Earth
Untamed Heart
Graffiti Bridge
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Drop Dead Fred (phoebe cates' huge house down the block from Chris K's place)
Mallrats

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My hometown in CT has a very historical and picturesque town center, and they were going to film part of The Witches of Eastwick there. However, the townspeople supposedly decided that Cher's image was too "racy" or whatever, and they raised a stink and the film crew instead chose a town in Massachusetts. FOOLS!

― Sengai, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Butterfly Kiss. How's that for glamour?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Flint:

Roger & Me
Chameleon Street

Ann Arbor:

...uh...maybe it was mentioned in MM's "The Big One"?
oh, and countless student films

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw where the climax of bottle rocket was filmed last night.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, that's not in ships or the EDT is it gygax?

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The town itself, I think, has never been featured in anything much.

OMG ned you are forgetting TOP GUN!!!

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

also you are forgetting

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

8 Mile (I actually live on 9 Mile)

― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG ned you are forgetting TOP GUN!!!

CORONADO, my friend. San Diego is another kettle of fish entirely, as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes made clear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

dude we annexed your homeland years ago!

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Suzy, don't forget the Grumpy Old Men movies! My parents have a friend who's an actress in Mpls., and she got to be Jack Lemmon's driver for the sequel!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.alyon.org/generale/theatre/cinema/affiches_cinema/b/blo-bru/box_of_moonlight.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

n New Milford where i lived and which was near where i grew up they have filmed lots of stuff.

I worked at a summer camp in New Milford.

They filmed part of The Preacher's Wife here in Portland.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

dude we annexed your homeland years ago!

Still a separate city, mofo! We just put the bridge up to allow you peons to come over to work for us and then get out (which actually is pretty much part of the reason why the bridge is there but anyway).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer, the weirdest part about that French poster is how it makes it look like it's this low-budget slapstick -- whereas the American poster makes it look like classy and wondrous:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1573623598.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

hometown:
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/95/62/30m.jpg

right next to my college:
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0165710/1

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

parts of "The Toy" starring Richard Pryor were filmed in Hammond, as were tiny parts of "Primary Colors". Also, the first series of "In The Heat of the Night" was in Hammond, and i think they kept the opening sequence with the train through the series.

New Orleans and Baton Rouge don't count.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

tracer, jaymc: you guys are from SPLATCHEE LAKE?

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing real recent was filmed in Laguna Beach, but back during the 20s and 30s it was a big location for pirate movies. Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk were filmed there, so was the silent version of Robinson Crusoe.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Lord of the Rings I, II & III.

er, rest of NZ to thread!

― Bill E (bill_e), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

To my knowledge, no films have been made in New Orleans. They have a fake New Orleans in Culver City, CA - it's a "dry" heat, preferable for wardrobe and hair.

Oh, maybe Easy Rider was filmed "on location."

― andy, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

sam,

it's the Texas Ice House on Commerce street, almost under an overpass just east of downtown Dallas.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of the Harry Potter scenes were filmed in Oxford (Christ Church and the Bodleian were used).

The Bodleian was also used for the House of Commons scenes in The Madness of King George

Parts of A Fish Called Wanda were filmed at Morrells Brewery in Oxford (which doesn’t exist any more, it’s being turned into blocks of flats right now)

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Parts of Spy Kids and Spy Kids 2 were filmed here.
Shamefully, much of Miss Congeniality was filmed here.
Does anyone remember The Newton Boys? A lot of scenes were filmed locally.
Much of Selena was filmed here. They actually went to the mall I regularly frequent as well as a local restaurant in my parents' old neighborhood.
The '90s remake of Lolita was filmed in the surrounding countryside. That same area also served as a substitute for Africa in Ace Ventura 2.
Johnny Be Good and Cloak & Dagger were filmed here.
Of course, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Viva Max and Eddie would have scenes that were filmed here.
Apparently there was a chase scene in the original Getaway film that was shot on the Riverwalk.
Older Hollywood: Wings, The Warrens of Virginia, High School, and I Wanted Wings.

― Mellow Dee (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I worked at a summer camp in New Milford.

i went to the elliot pratt summer camp when i was a kid, colin. it wasn't there, was it? (this was many many many moons ago of course) they made us biuld our own shelters out of twigs and then sleep in them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

no such ting as Splatchee Lake, vahid!! i'm from Knoxville (aka Knox Patch)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, this is far less rugged visual/performing arts camp for rich Upper West Side kids.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Stepford Wives, for real!

My house was kind on the town line, and that other town got "The Ice Storm."

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy, that's interesting, I didn't know that. So none of Interview with the Vampire was filmed in N.O.?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Some googling shows that they stopped by Lafayette #1 at least, and some other places around Louisiana.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

A bunch of stuff is filmed in Charlotte, where I grew up. Here in Jackson, we can claim Spencer's Mountain, Shane, and the Clint Eastwood Classic, Every Which Way but Loose, among others.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

parts of some jackie chan movie were shot in a nearby suburb. Strangely enough, the only reason i know this is because i recognised a local strip club that was in the back of a shot.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

A Houston sampler:
Brewster McCloud
Rushmore
The Thief Who Came To Dinner
Sidekicks
Terms of Endearment (and its flop sequel, The Evening Star)
Arlington Road
A Robocop movie (either II or III)

Plus some others that I forgot. Of this list though, I've only seen the first two (own 'em actually). The next two I've seen parts of on TV. One of my old teachers was an extra in Sidekicks.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Mission Impossible (i can't remember which one. was partially filmed at a theme park of sorts in mmy hometown of Ballarat)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, adding to the database, and boy are these k-classics or what?

Escape to Victory. As well as featuring many contemporaneous Ipswich Town superstars, the honest POWs versus evil-hun football match at the end was filmed at Portman Road.

And also, turgid Michael Cane spy-thriller The Fourth Protocol featured about 30 seconds of an Ipswich lock-up.

That's, Um, About it.

Just a quick note, I didn't realise Rita, Sue and Bob Too starred two trannies.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 19 February 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I dont think anything was ever filmed in Canberra. Depressing really. If I count Melbourne though theres loads: that Jackie Chan one (umm.. Mr Nice Guy was it?), I saw them filming bits in Swanston street. ALso:
Romper Stomper
Metal Skin
Queen of the Damned (well bits of it anyway)
every other crap aussie film set in Melbourne, ever

And there may be no films from my birthplace, but did you know George Lazenby, the only Australian James Bond, is from Queanbeyan, which is where I grew up? Now thats a claim to ... err.. something.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dacre.org/flash/www/us102624.jpg

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

do pornos count?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

They dont MAKE pornos in canberra they just SELL them. I think.

Wait, this might explain the strangely quiet post-school lives of many of my friends...

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

you need to start a "what movies did you make..." thread for that one, jim

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to high school just down the street from where most of Chasing Amy was filmed. That's only about fifteen minutes from where I'm from. Kevin Smith's View Askew office is on that same street. Fifteen minutes in another direction from my house is the convenience store where Clerks was filmed.

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Spitfire Grill. At least the outdoor-by the river-scene. The rest was filmed down the road in Chelsea, VT. I give it 3 ***.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 19 February 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

anti-new yorkaise?!?!?!?!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 19 February 2004 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

millions, of course, for Toronto, bu the first one I remember is Short Circuit 2--because it caused a minor civic outrage when they hung US flags outside the Old City Hall.

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 19 February 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul Newman just filmed a movie some time last year in my great aunt's house (my great-grandmother used to live there as well until she died) in Waterville, Maine. I don't know what the movie is called, though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/t/images/tommy-dvd.jpg

― robster (robster), Thursday, 19 February 2004 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a better claim to the omen, my parents' house being within spitting distance of Brookwood Cemetary and Pyrford Court (and not so far from Guildford Cathedral). Mark, what church are you talking about?

http://www.eofftv.com/o/ome/omen_1976_main.htm

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 19 February 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember some of the filming of Yanks was done on the Manchester Ship Canal next to our humble caravan home, didn't see Richard Gere though. They even managed to keep the view of Fiddlers Ferry nuclear power station in the background even though the film was set in the 1940's

Also just down the road they filmed Memphis Belle at Burtonwood airbase.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Not only in my hometown, but in my old house.

http://www.gerpotze.com/joydivision/images/boston.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Superman, 2001, Ivanhoe, Summer Holiday - to name a not particularily representative six.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Patriot Games" was filmed in part in front of my first apartment in Annapolis, and my girlfriend at the time got glared at in an unfriendly manner by Harrison Ford in a terrific (now gone) Vietnamese restaurant. Said film also features a car being towed the wrong way around State Circle, an LA freeway standing in for Route 50, and Rowe Boulevard being mispronounced.

"Boys" was filmed at St. John's College, and the same girlfriend (who by then was an ex) was mistaken for Wanna Rid'er at least once.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Quadrophenia, Brighton Rock, End of the Affair, Dirty Weekend, Circus (eek), Oh What a Lovely War, Genevieve, Me Without You etc etc

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 February 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The only one I can think of is (I think) "With Honors", starring Brendan Fraser and... Ummmm... I can't remember. I've never seen it.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 19 February 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

They filmed "When the boat comes in" (TV series about geordie folk (Newcastle for youse non-UK folk), in Reading.

(The town hall was used to dep. for the poorhouse...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe I forgot this one (Tag would never forgive me).

http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/mulberry1.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 19 February 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The one that is Sean Connery and another bloke in an interview room about child m'lstn.. the externals were filmed in Bracknell.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 February 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

A scene from Face (dodgy brit gangster film with Damon Albarn in it) was filmed down my old road in Harringay.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 19 February 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaft in Africa

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 19 February 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Chariots of fire!

― Davel (Davel), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Err... 'Let's Get Skase'... and some of the upcoming AC/DC movie 'Thunderstruck'

― Mil, Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"dead poets society" and some Bruce Willis movie and "signs"
(this is a general approximation locationally)

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Loch Ness, obviously.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I just moved from Cerrillos, NM, where some of this was shot:
http://www.postersnthings.com/posters/convoy.jpg
Ali still lives around here.

There've been a number of other films shot in Cerrillos. My landlord liked to appropriate abandoned set pieces. He made a garage out of the "Young Guns" blacksmith's shop and a gazebo from the territorial prison watch tower in "John Carpenter's Vampires."

Colin, I vaguely remember you from St. John's. You were a friend of Tom Hammerman's, no?

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

some really shitty dean cain movie. i couldnt sit through it.

― chris d (Chris DeWolf), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Awww, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush is a fantastic film! Not sure where it was filmed, however - just assumed random bits of London.

Anyway, to the matter in hand.

The first wedding in Four Weddings & A Funeral was filmed, not in Somerset as the invitation stated, but in the parish church of the sleepy village of Betchworth in Surrey, opposite my local boozer (well, local when I'm down there), The Dolphin.

And some of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine's "Rubbish" video was filmed right here in sunny Bethnal Green...but I guess that's hardly surprising, sal'-ov-the-erf types that they were.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Friend" in the sense of hanging around somebody you can't fucking stand for the sake of his psychotic girlfriend, yes.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

to add to the list of films in Oxford

The Saint

I guess films about people who lived in Oxford, like Iris.

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 20 February 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Angela's Ashes. Of course, it's set here too.

― fcussen (Burger), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Carter video is quite surprising consider how much Sarf Lundun. they were.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Nil By Mouth was filmed round my way, I think. Amazingly, they made it look even grimmer than it is.

Also some film about two gaysexuals on a council estate. At the end they go waltzing in the car park and no one beats them up or anything.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

There's quite a lot in Glasgow, but "The Girl in the Picture" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091116/) was filmed in the houses across from my old place. So whenever there's an "out of the window" shot, you can see straight into my old kitchen.

Nice.

― Calumn Shearer (Calumn), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I know it's not my hometown, but Scott Mcgehee and David Siegel (who I still think have an excellent film in them somewhere) are shooting a movie with Richard Gere in Berkeley and Oakland at the moment.

It's about spelling bees and they were flying a giant letter "A" over the Port of Oakland by helicopter.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Runaway Jury, Interview with the Vampire, etc., for New Orleans. Malice, in Northampton, MA, when I was in college -- the opening is weird because the chick riding her bicycle teleports back and forth across town; my ex's foot is semi-visible in a couple of frames.

On Golden Pond was filmed on Squam Lake, where my family's lakehouse is -- we canoed over to gawking distance to see the Fondas and the Hepburn, but I was too young to know who they were.

We spent an hour or so stuck in traffic once in Boston while they filmed a chase scene for Spenser For Hire (not a movie, though, and not my hometown, just nearby).

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

no movies, only:

i) a video for The Mission (UK)

ii) an episode of Minder

iii) the video to Urban Hype's 'A Trip To Trumpton' at the local Lido

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Trip To Trumpton! Which lido?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The Zapruder Film

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You may remember this from the opening sequence of Wayne's World:

http://www.correiagallery.com/artists/shuler/images/shuler_stacked%20cars.jpg

It's on the same block as my old high school in Berwyn, IL. Thought I'd never go back again, but I'm buying a house there.

Also, members of the band Survivor went to that school. It's like a big holding bucket for suburban kitsch.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

'over the edge' - the movie w/ matt dillon about the junior highschoolers who go mental, was filmed in my hometown of greeley, colorado.

― mandee, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/chronicle/archive/2004/03/19/DDGSM5MIRF1.DTL&type%3Dmovies

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

No movies, but Ever Decreasing Circles was filmed and set in the Sussex village where I lived between the ages of 9 and 15.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Mystery Train
The Firm
21 Grams
The Rainmaker

parts of: Castaway, People v. Larry Flint ...and Making the muthafuckin' Grade feat. Judd Nelson, Gordon Jump, and "Dice" Clay

― Will (will), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Happy Gilmore
I will move along now

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently filmed in and around Milwaukee and Madison. Some entirely, some in part:
American Movie
The Big One
Blues Brothers
Chain Reaction
The Deep End of the Ocean
Hoop Dreams
I Love Trouble
Major League
Novacaine
Uncle Buck

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul Newman filmed a movie in my great aunt's (it was also where my great grandmother lived until she died ten years ago) house in Waterville, Maine last year.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Clockwise - a 1980s John Cleese film written by Michael Frayn - has a couple of scenes filmed around Grimsby hospital and cemetary, where I lived at the time.

Loads of stuff has been filmed in Edinburgh, but a couple of years back an episode of gritty John Hannah detective drama Rebus was filmed in my street. They pretended to burn a flat down; watching the pyrotechnics being filmed was very impressive.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

BLOW-UP

― the pinefox, Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the Quatermass films had words to the effect of 'Thanks to Hemel Hempstead New Town' on the end of it but that was filmed back in the days when Hemel was mostly building site.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 8 April 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.eofftv.com/q/quat/quatermass_2_1957_main.htm

Quatermass 2 (1957)

"Professor Bernard Quatermass is still angry that the British government won't green-light his Moonbase project when he discovers that someone has built a working replica of his project at Wynnerton Flats. And now some mysterious meteorites have fallen on the area - could the two be linked? Quatermass investigates and discovers that the plant is producing synthetic food for a race of aliens hoping to invade the planet - aliens who have started to possess key government officials..."

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Hemel Hempsted New Town Development Corporation; Shell Refining and Marketing Company

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 8 April 2004 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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