What Movies were filmed in your hometown?

[Seeker]

Well some big movies that come to mind for my home town of Buffalo are....

1. The Natural with Robert Redford. The used alot of locals for background
shots.

2. Superman 2 with Chris Reeves. Filmed at Niagara Falls

3. Buffalo 66 . Stared Vincent Gallo, Christine Ricci, Ben Gazzara. Vince's
parents house (Used in the movie) was a few blocks down from my house.

4. Canadian Bacon with John Candy. Filmed all around Niagara Falls.

5 Bruce Almighty. Just location shots Jim Carry never came.

6. Poutrygeist from Troma films. I was in this one. Got to be a zombie. Nice close up of ripping someone apart in a fast food place

[Brue]

Columbus Ohio - hot bed of film making.

A few years back some dumb Michael Douglas movie was filmed here. I think it was Traffic.

[StrangeVisitor]

Just a few have shot here, no big blockbusters. Some of The Distinguished Gentleman(1992) with Eddie Murphy was shot at the capital building in Harrisburg. Lucky Numbers (2000) w/ John Travolta & Lisa Kudrow was shot all over central PA, in Hershey, Harrisburg and Carlise. Oh yeah, and Major League II (1994) used the ballfield of the local AA team, The Harrisburg Senators.

[Vortigern99]

Columbus Ohio - hot bed of film making.

A few years back some dumb Michael Douglas movie was filmed here. I think it was Traffic.

Traffic is a brilliant film! I think Soderberg won the Best Director Oscar for that movie. It's not dumb by a long shot.

[cjefferys]

As already mentioned, parts of SUPERMAN 2 were shot in my birthplace and sometimes hometown of Niagara Falls, Ontario.

[theantiquetiger]

Traffic is a brilliant film! I think Soderberg won the Best Director Oscar for that movie. It's not dumb by a long shot.

Soderbergh is from Baton Rouge, and filmed "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" here, I forgot about that one.

You mentioned Houston; One of my favorite movies was shot in Houston, "Reality Bites".

[hobub]

Mingo Jct., OH? More than most small towns in the Ohio River Valley

The Deer Hunter

Reckless

Heart of Steel

Sad thing is that they are still accuate. Brilliant!

[grayhank]

Nothing in my hometown, they don't take kindly to people coming in with their fancy cameras. And the sad part of that is I'm not joking!

But when I lived in South Carolina I would frequently go to Beauford SC where most of the funeral procession scenes to "The Big Chill" were filmed as well as the house. This same house was also used for "The Great Santini".

[RG]

""Bandits"" (Bruce Willis and Billy Bob) I took a humdinger of a picture of Billy Bob in that goofy old man golf outfit he wore in part of the film ... he looked straight at me and said "Oh thanks a lot" and went on to say something about how he didn't chose the outfit. The first Bank they rob is right down town Silverton when they get away in the silver Chrysler PT ... I was behind a building watching them do the filming ... so I sort of was in the movie ... you just couldn't see me lol lol

""The Hunted"" ( Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro ... not sure the spelling ) like all the forest parts were filmed at the Silver Falls State Park

""One flew over the Cuckoo's nest"" was filmed in Salem just a short drive from here ... in fact I just drove past the main hostpital they used today.

Lots of small parts in many movies have been filmed in the general area Mt. Angel and Scotts Mills are like right up the road and both have also been used in movies most aren't block busters ... most have been B Movies

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Well, Baltimore and Washington DC. Take your pick.

Although, I do have to laugh, when a film is supposed to take place in DC and they don't shoot it there. You can tell. Same thing happens with NYC, too.

[theantiquetiger]

I forgot about another "GREAT WORK" in film history that was shot here recently, "Dukes of Hazzard"!!!

The Boar's Nest was not too far from my house and the college scene was LSU, of course. I just watched part of this movie last night and the scene where they were driving to the college, i cannot figure out where this is at. I think it is New Orleans because I do not recognize the buildings in the back ground.

Alot of films are starting to be made here in Louisiana because the state passed a bill recently giving film companies tax breaks to come here.

[palitoy]

Billy Madison- filmed not too far from my house, they wanted to film a scene on my parents driveway, my parents didn't care for Adam Sandler

X-Men- The Winter scenes at the beginning shot a few miles from my house. The rest shot in Toronto.

Rolling Vengeance- Filmed around the corner from my child hood home, I watched it being made.

Half Baked- Made in Toronto, I could see my friend's building in a bunch of scenes.

Boondock Saints- You can see the horrible hell hole I suffered in during much of the early ninties.

Both of the schools I went to (York U and Ryerson) had constant film crews on campus, I know I watched them film a bunch of "Forever Knight" and "tech war" episodes on breaks, I also ran into Keanu Reeves once.

[Evel KMego]

"A League of Their Own" was shot mainly in my neighboring city of Evansville, but some of the rural scenes were filmed about five miles from my house. Also a nearby town called Huntingburg was the site of the rival ball teams stadium scenes.
Huntingburg was also basically flooded for the filming of "Hard Rain" with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater.

[thunderbolt]

Actual hometown, nothing. Current area, there were a few Edward Scissorhands filmed partly in Lakeland, as did the Waterboy. Easy To Love with Esther Williams filmed at Cypress Gardens a couple miles away.

[misterdroid]

The following films were shot in and around my current area:
* 28 Days (film)
* Above Suspicion
* The Abyss
* The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
* Amos & Andrew
* Bandwagon (film)
* Being There
* Billy Bathgate
* Blue Velvet
* Brainstorm (1983 film)
* A Breed Apart
* Bull Durham
* Charleen
* Christy: Return to Cutter Gap
* The Clearing
* Crimes of the Heart (film)
* The Crow (film)
* Die Hard with a Vengeance
* Firestarter (film)
* The Fugitive (1993 film)
* Hannibal (film)
* Happy Campers (film)
* Heavyweights
* Home of the Giants
* The Hudsucker Proxy
* Juwanna Mann
* The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)
* Loggerheads (film)
* Maximum Overdrive
* Nell
* Patch Adams (film)
* The Rage: Carrie 2
* Richie Rich (film)
* Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
* The Road to Wellville (film)
* Shallow Hal
* Sleeping with the Enemy (1991 film)
* Stroker Ace
* Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
* The Color Purple (film)
* Thunder Road
* A Walk to Remember
* Weekend at Bernie's
* Where the Lilies Bloom

However, as my hometown is Flint MI, I can't really claim the North Carolina film industry...this is the amended "Flint" list:

* Roger & Me (1989)
* Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint (1992) Follow-up of Roger & Me.
* The Big One (1998)
* Bowling for Columbine (2002)
* Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
* Semi-Pro (2008)

Didn't include documentaries or way under the radar indie films.