What Movies were filmed in your hometown?

[Bo8a_Fett]

Spaced was filmed in my area too with the house opposite my kids school.

[Flynne]

Filmed in Wichita, Kansas:

Parts of "Tombstone", "Little House on the Prairie", "Sarah, Plain and Tall", "C.S.A.", and a whole host of movies and made for TV Old West movies - One of our museums is a 100 acre collection of Old West buildings and an adjacent 19th century farm called "Cowtown". It's a popular site for filming westerns and documentaries, the last of which was by an old friend of mine from WSU. I met Christopher Walken while he was in town for the filming of a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, entirely by accident. There's usually an ad in the paper about every other month for auditions for extras.

"Darkness" - a horror flick entirely filmed in Wichita, written, edited, and directed by my wife's High School boyfriend, Leif Jonker. Besides being a horror film director, writer, and special effects creator (his stuff on "Surface" was awesome), Leif's also a Mego fan.

"Mars Attacks" - the retirement home that gets trashed in the film is up on the north end of town. Leif worked on Tim Burton's crew though I didn't actually know him at the time. It was pretty awesome to see filming, and not just because I ditched out of a few classes at nearby WSU to do it.

"King Kung Fu" - a cult film about King Kong and Kung Fu, filmed entirely in Wichita.

[spamn]

Let's see, I live outside Philly, so I'm not going to count anything shot downtown. I think the stuff shot closest to my home town is the original 50s Blob, TAPS, and parts the upcoming M. Night Shamaylan film 'The Happening.' I'm told that 'The Village' set was just over the hill from the office of my current job, too.

They actually just closed down the diner that the Blob munched on.

[Adam West]

When I first got married we moved to PA , a small town called Gap right outside Bird in hand (Amish country) Harrison Fords "Witness" was filmed near by.

They have some strange names for the towns up around Lancaster. The funniest is "Intercourse". Walk into any souvenir shop and you can imagine the tourist shirts you'll see referencing this town.

[Seeker]

When I first got married we moved to PA , a small town called Gap right outside Bird in hand (Amish country) Harrison Fords "Witness" was filmed near by.

[ScottA]

Movies filmed in and around Montgomery, Alabama are:

Big Fish
The Long Walk Home
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Body Snatchers
Blue Sky

[Adam West]

Right next to me were parts to the Blair Witch Project.

Since I also live in the Washington D.C./Baltimore area there are too many to name but will mention the movie Ladder 49 which was filmed in Baltimore. The priest of the Catholic Church that I attend played the priest in the film.

He said John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix were both very nice people to work with.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Shaun of the dead was filmed extensively around my part of London (crouch end), in fact the windows to the immediate right above the shop that Simon Pegg goes into ( coke and cornetto) was my old bedsit. Also the film Love, Honour and Obey was filmed in crouch end and the pub used used to be a regular drinking venue for me and my buds.

[tactile2]

Parts of the original X-Men movie, Billy Madison and The Hurricane with Denzel Washington were filmed here in Oshawa, Ontario.... There are more, but I cannot think of them at the moment. A popular site for filiming is Col. R.S. Mcglaughlin's mansion here in Oshawa...he's the gent who basically brought General Motors to Canada. His home is now a tourist attraction and was used as Xavier's school for Gifted Youngsters in X-Men 1.

[EmergencyIan]

Like Evel K Mego mentioned, "A League Of Their Own" was filmed in Evansville and that's my home town. Some other scenes, such as the one in the gym when the girl hits the ball through the window, were shot in New Harmony, Indiana. That's 40 miles outside of Evansville. My parents live there.

- Ian

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.