Movies set in your City

Also filmed in Boston: Now, Voyager (1942), Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, The Paper Chase, Starting Over, Coma, Altered States, Malice, Whose Life is It Anyway?, Charly (1968), Prozac Nation, Blown Away (1994), The Brink's Job, With Honors, Fever Pitch, Once Around and parts of The Verdict, The Firm and The Last Detail. Also the television series "St. Elsewhere", "Spencer for Hire", "The Practice", "Boston Legal", "Boston Public" and perhaps most famously - although they almost never shot there - "Cheers".

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I doubt the film buiness is actualy cocentrated in Australia what so ever. Seriously our film industry sucks in Australia. All we get is the same old Aussie actors (eg. Stephen Curry, that Italian guy from Underbelly and a couple of others) in mediocore films.

Ghost-Rider was shot in Melbourne. The sad thing about that, was, was in Melbourne's local news paper, there was a huge artical about how this movie was shoot here. I doubt there are articals in other city's news papers about movies getting filmed.

Fight Club is set in my city; Wilmington, Delaware baby.

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Didn't know that, Iroquois. Thanks for the correction.

The Molly McQuires with Sean Connery

Pottsville PA. This was set and filmed about 15 minutes outside of my small town

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I was born and raised in London, ENGLAND . And considering Pinewood studio is one of the worlds finest, we've had hundreds of flicks filmed in our beautiful city. I don:'t even know where to
start.

Here are just some of the better films filmed in my glorious city:

The Dark Knight


Sunshine

Batman Begins

Following

Alien

Aliens

Bullet Boy

28 Days Later

Kidulthood/Adulthood

The list goes on and on. London is where it's at, mate.

The Field


Ryan's Daughter

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There are many but here's a few off the top of my head...

Interview With A Vampire
Angel Heart
The Big Easy
Cat People
Double Jeopardy
The Skeleton Key
The Pelican Brief
JFK
The Buccaneer
Dracula 2000
Tightrope
Deja vu

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Must be N'Awlins! My favorite "foreign" city!!!

Besides what Silas said, I know a couple episodes of Angel were set in Galway. It's slim pickins otherwise as far as I know.

And the winner is......

How about the film Legend! Didn't they accidentally burn down the Bond stage during production or something?

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I read the book Molly Maguires. Was the film based on that, do you think?

I've never read the book, but I would say. Kind-of. I'm not sure. The movie was based on the true stories of the Irish Rebel group the Molly Macguires. They are kind of legends around the area I'm from. They were a group of men who worked in the coalmines and rebeled against the coal companies for treating workers unfairly. They committed all kinds of crimes to get their point across that they werent going to take it anymore.

I would assume that the book would be about the same thing....

To me, it seems like half the well-known movies are filmed in Sydney and the other half are filmed in Melbourne, with the rare exception (e.g. Wolf Creek, although that could've been shot elsewhere. I'm not too sure to be honest.)

King is spot on about the whole "film industry sucks" thing. Apart from the occasional big hit (like The Castle or Chopper), jJust about every Australian film is exactly the way he described (although they occasionally feature one of our internationally-renowned stars - e.g. Australia). Even if the quality of an individual film is good, it tends to flounder commercially because most Australians would rather see the typical Hollywood blockbusters. The concentration seems to be more on making TV than movies, though, because it's simpler to do and easier to profit from.

Especially when it's for a movie like Ghost Rider...then again, the Matrix movies were shot in Australia, I think. It seems to be dropping off as inflation brings the Australian dollar and American dollar closer together, though.

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I live in Orkney and it would be a miricle if a feature film were made here!

Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were filmed in Chicago(dont dare put ketchup on a hotdog here)!!!My buddy waited in line for hours to be an extra!He got to be police officer in both but he didnt get to show his face becuase he was in swat gear that covered his face.He got free food and 100 dollars per day.

When is the next Boston Tea Party by the way?

the only films i can think of that was filmed in my city was a low budget called little chicago, which is actually an old nickname from the 70's that my city held, parts of talladega nights, ...now, in the actual city that we are a suburb of, charlotte, there was nell, with jodie foster, days of thunder, juwana man, stroker ace, and parts of the color purple...

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I live in Vancouver and although many, many films have been filmed here the only one that comes to mind that is actually set here is the absolutely ridiculous, completely awful, Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever.