Movies or TV Shows that Take Place in Your Hometown/ Place of Residence

Los Angeles. I can’t think of any.

I grew up in Chicago and the movies that show it off the best are Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Blues Brothers.

And Risky Business.

Rocky, Trading Places, Blow Out and the ultimate 80s movie, Kim Cattrall as Mannequin. Philadelphia 1980s.

Not a lot of filming in Houston, with [italic]Terms of Endearment[/italic] being the biggest of the few examples. It has the couple driving from River Oaks to Brennan's by way of the beach, but whatever. [italic]Brewster McCloud[/italic] has shots of the Astrodome. And [italic]Reality Bites[/italic] has a scene at Greenway Plaza, not one of our architectural wonders.

"My So Called Life" was set in Pittsburgh, but didn't film here. Ditto the US "Queer As Folk".

Off the top of my head, the only thing I can think of both set in and filmed in Pittsburgh to decent effect was the rather shitty Russell Crowe vehicle, "The Next Three Days." (I was an extra!)

One Day at a Time

Parks & Rec

Stranger Things

Eerie, Indiana

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

A Christmas Story

Hoosiers

Remember the Night

Do I think Indiana/Indianapolis has ever been portrayed accurately? Not particularly. I think producers just randomly come up with places in the Midwest to set their stories, just because they know it's best not to set absolutely everything in LA or NYC. But they don't bother to look up info like, for instance, the lack of mountains in Indiana.

Richard Lester's "Petulia" makes good use of 1960's San Francisco as a setting: Playland at the Beach, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Fairmont Hotel, Fort Point, Winterland, the Cannery Penguins, and much more.

Coppola's "The Conversation" features 1970's San Francisco, especially the old Union Square design, which I loved.

I'm from the SF Peninsula, but I was startled when I saw the house/street/neighborhood in which Laura Linney on the show "The Big C." The house they used is directly across the street from where I used to live on Shippan Point in Stamford, CT.

*in which Laura Linney's character lived

I AM THE CHEESE (book) is set in fictional Monument, Massachusetts, but it is modeled on Leominster, Mass. The author, Robert Cormier, was from here and never left the area.

Flashdance - Pittsburgh (hometown)

Jersey Shore - self explanatory (place of residence)

Well, back in the late 70's, I was doing my usual late night cruising of the beach, and surrounding parks. As I was driving through Lake Worth, FL there was a big van park in the left side of the 1 way street headed towards the beach that had a big sign with 'Body Heat'. I thought it was maybe a porn shoot, and just went about my blow-job quest and continued to the beach. Well, William Hurt and Kathleen Turner were in town filming the lawyers office scenes for that most sexually charged movie in my little hometown of Lake Worth. It was cool to watch the movie and spot the different locales of Palm Beach and surrounding areas.

I'm from Springfield, Massachusetts originally and in addition to people always saying, "You're from Boston?", there has been one -ONE- movie that people maybe sorta remember that was filmed and took place here - "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" from 1975 starring Michael Sarrazzin, Margot Kidder and Jennifer O'Neal.

Jake Gyllenhaal and AnnE starred in a movie that was shot in Pittsburgh, in which Pittsburgh played both Pittsburgh and Chicago. It was called Love & Other Drugs. It was just alright. Jill Clayburgh played Jake's mother, and she was my favorite part. I don't think she came to Pittsburgh.

There was also Wonder Boys, from the Michael Chabon novel. And The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, but I'm not sure I ever saw that.

When I lived in DC, I got to be in crowd scenes in St. Elmo's Fire, The Exorcist, and one of Tom Cruise's movies.

[quote]Jill Clayburgh played Jake's mother, and she was my favorite part.

R13 I remember she died a week or two before the movie premiered.

R13 the hit show THIS IS US is set in Pittsburgh. Well, the childhood flashback scenes, anyway.

Who knew so many DLers were from Pittsburgh? It is interesting to realize how most movies are set in LA or NY or CA. Reinforces the importance’s of those places in the cultural milieu of the US.

r16 Well, Bethel Park.

[quote]I remember she died a week or two before the movie premiered.

Dah-dah-dah-daddah-DAHHHHHH.

Chattanooga was the scene of various assignations of Blanche Elizabeth Deveraux.

I imagine such assignations would have been at the King's Lodge by the ridge cut.

My office building even appears in the opening credits.

My neighborhood burger joint was the setting for the final scene of The Sopranos.

It’s never that crowded and there are no jukeboxes.

R20 is that where she was arrested for 1) driving without her shirt on, and 2) for greasing up her hands at a party?

Mad Max Fury Road. I grew up in Youngstown, OH and they really nailed it.

Oh God, I live in Davis, California, a small college town best known for "The Pepper-Spray Cop".

It is unrepresented in movies and TV. It almost was, there was a best-selling frau book called "The Jane Austen Book Club", which came out 15-20 years ago, and a film version was made in 2007. But although the story was supposedly set in Davis the film itself was actually shot in southern California with no reference to the official setting, and we missed our one chance to appear in Pop Culture.

[quote]Although the story was supposedly set in Davis, the film itself was actually shot in southern California.

I hate when they do that.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Richard Gere is a music professor who resides in Woonsocket and takes the train from Woonsocket to Providence every day to teach class The Woonsocket, as portrayed, is a charming coastal village with upscale shops and friendly talkative citizens. The Woonsocket I grew up in wasn't awful, but it wasn't that! The train station was broken down and closed for many years. They reconstructed and beautified it just for the movie, They covered over the real, mostly run down vacant Main Street stores and built a small coffee shop to make it look charming. The "coastal" scenes were actually filmed in Bristol, RI, one hour away.

If the Woonsocket, as portrayed in the movie really existed, I might have never left.

Sleepless in Seattle, of course. Singles. Disclosure. Twilight was filmed over on the peninsula. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. The Fabulous Baker Boys. Fear w Marky Mark and Reece. Fifty Shades of Gray. An Officer and A Gentleman. 10 Things I Hate About You.

I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting.

Then, of course, Frasier and Grey's Anatomy. Twin Peaks just up north, and Northern Exposure. Not all filmed here, of course, but pieces were.

The Office-I grew up outside Scranton. I lost it when Ryan had to go to Carbondale to get Michael pudding.

R29 why is that funny?

R29, the movie "Wanda" which was just released on Criterion this past winter was filmed largely in Scranton/Carbondale circa 1970.

How could I forget -- Tom Hanks will be bringing Pittsburgh to the masses this holiday season.

Ewan McGregor's execrable adaptation of "American Pastoral" used Pittsburgh as a stand-in for post-riots Newark, which I found amusing. And of course, parts of "The Road" were filmed in the Deplorable Lands outside the city limits.

Atlanta. A little production called Gone With the Wind.

Christian Bale filmed Out of the Furnace in Braddock, an old steel mill town near Pittsburgh.

Wings of Desire

Run, Lola, Run

Life ot the others

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Hometown:

Dynasty

Current Residence:

Any number, but I'll go with:

The Closer & Major Crimes

R30 Oh darling, everyone knows the pudding from Carbondale is horrendous.

R4 My elderly aunt was in the opening shots of River Oaks, walking down the sidewalk. They approached her in her front yard and asked if she'd like to be in movie. To my surprise, she said yes. She was a society matron who brooked no nonsense. My favorite part of TERMS OF ENDEARMENT.

Hometown: Tyler, Texas Movie: BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL

R38 is your aunt still living?

There's an ongoing joke that really clangs in The American President, in which people repeatedly get held up in traffic in Dupont Circle while driving from the Capitol to the White House. You don't go anywhere near Dupont Circle to get from the Capitol to the White House.

The OC ( which I hate, because no one from here says that), Arrested Development, episode of Columbo with DL fav Suzanne Pleshette.

Filmed here, but not supposed to be Newport- opening of Gilligan's Island, house in Beaches

Home town: San Diego in the 70s.

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