Movies Filmed in Your Neighborhood

[SPiRAL]

Has there been any movies shot in your neighborhood ? If so which ones?

The " Nursing School " in Slums of Beverly Hills is actually a library
a few blocks away.

Suburbia ( 80's ) was shot on my street and the next one over. ( The scene where they go around stealing food and beer from peoples garages )

[AsianImage]

I live in Highland Park/Eagle Rock, Los Angeles CA. Right between Pasadena and Gledale since I was 2:

RESEVOIR DOGS - many scenes on York Blvd in HP, running on the street shoot out.
PULP FICTION - hotel were Bruce Willis and his crazy GF stayed in silver lake, about 20 mins away from me

as you can see..Quentin likes that area

BIKER BOYZ - Diner where the BB riders first meet, shot in Eagle Rock

TRAINING DAY - many scenes in LA, pretty darn close to me.

those are the one I can think of now...

[devilshalo]

Just behind my apartment, they used a house for a scene in Mystery Men where they were recruiting members.

[Pants]

In the first few minutes of the first American Pie as two characters are driving to school, there is a shot of their car driving down the street. For what ever reason this is the street I grew up on in Long Beach, CA. I was shocked when I saw this in the theater.

The recent indie "hit" Better Luck Tommorow was filmed partly at the Balboa Pier which is a couple hundred yards from where I live now.

Great now you all know everything about me. Stalk Away!

The Immortal Classic, Gleaming the Cube, was also filmed right by me and the video for INXS's song Devil Inside was filmed at at bar right by me, The Balboa Saloon.

Going back to Long Beach, the bar that Kevin Costner and Whitney Crack-head go to in The Bodyguard was filmed at one of my favorite bars in Long Beach.

I lived in LA for a while, there's tons of locations there.

I had an odd experience last year while watching DePalma's Body Double. I'm watching the movie and practically every location is someplace I've been. Barnie's Beanery in LA, this weird stair-step apartment building on the beach in Long Beach, an adjacent pedestrian tunnel (now closed), even the Tower Records on Sunset Blvd. which was where I'd bought the DVD!!! Talk about Twilight Zone.

[Charlie Goose]

The best known would probably be in Easy Money when Rodney and Joe tried to eat at a diner that was open for 23 hours. That wasn't a creation for the movie, that diner was really closed one hour per day. The diner is still there but it's many times removed from the one that appeared in the movie.

http://charliegoose.homestead.com/files/goose.jpg Honk!

[PacMan2006]

The Next Karate Kid shot in my high school.

[Mondo Kane]

Mojave Desert (Victorville,CA)

Stagecoach
Grand Theft Auto ('77)
Face-Off
Breakdown
From Dusk 'til Dawn (Restaurant where the preacher eats at)
Contact
Hulk (What used to be George Air Force Base)
Kill Bill (Emma Jean’s Holland Burger,"Route 66 Restaurant", and Club Reflections)

Another area that Quentin likes!

[wordtoyamotha]

Basically the entire film Mallrats was filmed at the mall I grew up going to. Eden Prairie, New Jersey is actually Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a surburb of Minneapolis. I would be happy to answer any questions about the mall for any Mallrats cult followers out there.

[DGibFen]

Parts of "The Insider" were shot at the Seelbach Hotel, near the Kennedy Bridge, and at Manual High School in Louisville, KY.

I remember cause Pacino came to the movie theater I was working at around that time to see "Saving Private Ryan". The manager sneaked him in the back door, and then sneaked him out the back door again after the movie.

Oh yeah, the guy who throws the paper at Russell Crowe's character in the airport is a drama teacher at Manual High School. I watched the movie with some people who went there and they suddenly screamed when they saw that scene "It's (whatever his name was) the drama teacher!"

[mediabear]

Sunshine State was filmed here in NE Florida. They filmed a scene with Angela Bassett at a local mall near my house.

[Ginwen]

Not really fair if you live in LA, since they film all over there.

At my High School (in LA-area, El Segundo) they filmed some short-lived TV show (King's Crossing, I think it was called, and all the actors were WAY too old to be in a show about High School) + a McDonald's commercial, they filmed a burger king commercial across the street (the duke of doubt, I think it was called) by a fountain, as well as a show with Morgan Fairchild and some actor at the same spot. Also an episode of Chips up the street.

Oh, plus they filmed a bunch of parts of the Black Marble (movie), including the star (Robert Foxworth) sitting on the steps of the Methodist Church with his pants falling down, plus a bunch of scenes in a Russian Orthodox church in El Segundo.

In Santa Monica, where I was born, by my grannie's old house, I saw them filming a car crash for the Charlie's Angels show (I was probably about 13, and the crew members asked me if I knew where they could get some pot [I didn't, by the way]). I missed the stars, just their extras were there by the time I showed up.

Also in Santa Monica, I watched them film the Lee Harvey Oswald arrest scene with Frederick Forrest from a TV movie, Ruby and Oswald, at the Aero theater (that was my coolest one, actually, I was just a kid and the crew let me hang out in the theater for hours, and I got to meet pretty much everyone that was in that part of the movie).

I'm sure there's been others too, but those are the ones I remember.

I also often see places I am pretty familiar with in movies, like the Merry Go-Round in the Sting, which is also in Santa Monica.

[kenny79]

My high school was the setting for Rushmore Academy. ;)

One day over a decade ago, my brother and I were riding our bikes through the Rice Village in West University and some movie guys told us to back up for a minute. A couple of the shots they used were early parts of the car chase in The Chase.

And I doubt it was anywhere near me, but parts of Arlington Road were shot in Houston.

[tinlunlau]

part of "Bulletproof Monk" was filmed at City Hall, Toronto. just outside my friend's workplace. my uncle was a film extra in that movie and hung out with Mr. Chow very often.

[Superboy]

Terminator 2 was shot in the Glendale Galleria.

Um, there was a Del Taco commercial filmed near my house.

[Tarantino]

Parts of Redford's 'The Candidate' were shot in my old hometown.

[Pillowhead]

The scene in the mall in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was filmed at Metrocenter Mall in Arizona, and the water park scene was filmed at Golfland Sunsplash in Mesa, Arizona.

Scenes from The Getaway were filmed at the dogtrack in Phoenix.

Jerry Maguire - Arizona Cardinals stadium.

The closest movie that was filmed on location to me would be Bill and Ted's though.

[UAIOE]

Originally posted by Pillowhead
The scene in the mall in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was filmed at Metrocenter Mall in Arizona, and the water park scene was filmed at Golfland Sunsplash in Mesa, Arizona.

I never knew the movie was filmed there!

Then again i didnt live there at the time the movie was filmed but i wonder why i never picked up them being in the movie.

I wonder how those places are doing today.

[jdslater]

it's not really my neighborhood but the subway station i work at is quite popular for filming,The station is called Canary wharf in an area of london called docklands.Its a giant station made of concrete,steel and glass.We have had the following films done here:
1,28 days,the scene where he wonders into the empty station.
2,killing me softly,the scene where they meet on the escalators,they do change this station into an airport alot.
3.agent cody blanks 2,they are doing 4 days filming next weekend.
4.code 46,a new sci-fi film starring tim robbins and samantha morton-wonderful,but weird woman.also i spoke to the make-up woman who had just finished on LXG in prague and saying how 4 weeks turned into 5 months.
We've had jonathon frakes come down to scout for the thunderbirds film(they want to crash thunderbird 2 through the station roof) and madonna might do a video there,but the also wanted to a bit if the first tomb raider there but that fell through.
It's pretty good when they film because i get to help out with crowd control and get paid extra money.

[funkymonk]

not really in my neighborhood(I was on vacation)...but the scene in Keeping The Faith where they are in a movie theater is actually the same movie theater I saw Keeping The Faith

[Groucho]

Halloween 4 and Halloween 5 were filmed right in my neighborhood here in Salt Lake City.

A large portion of The Way of the Gun was filmed at my office building.

[bigdaddy1980]

Ginger Snaps was filmed in my neighborhood (Mississauga, ON)

[tdirgins]

Rye Playland Amusement Park (http://www.ryeplayland.org/) has been featured in several great films, including Big and Fatal Attraction. Mariah Carey filmed her video for Fantasy there also.

[jdpatri]

Some scenes for Remember the Titans was filmed at a high school behind my college dorm.

Some scenes for Road Trip were filmed on my college quad (Emory University)... thus displacing my own production that day. Still bitter 'bout that.

A scene from Houseguest was filmed at my high school in Pittsburgh.

[resinrats]

While not actually filmed, they were planning to use the local High Falls district in one of the Batman movies. Either Penguins area or Mr. Freezes lair. Can't remember which one.

[BuckeyeDawg]

While I was still living in Omaha, Nebraska (stationed at the AFB), they filmed Election...

[ArchibaldTuttle]

a couple outdoor scenes of Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield were filmed on campus where I go to college (UW Madison)

[PalmerJoss]

A few scenes of School Ties were filmed near me in Andover MA, and then A Civil Action and the upcoming Mystic River were both filmed a couple miles from where I currently live near Woburn MA.

[ProjectMayhem]

A Christmas Story
A Summer Story

That's all, I believe.

[einTier]

The mall scenes in The New Guy were filmed at Highland Mall not even a mile from my house. I was at the mall the day they were shooting. Met Vanilla Ice, but I wish I had known that Eliza Dushku was in the movie!

[hal9000]

Masters Of The Universe
Back To the Future (parts 1& 2)
Hocus Pocus
Father Of The Bride 2
Sgt. Bilko
Matilda
Blow

and way to many T.V. shows and commercials to mention.

[Crocker Jarmen]

I used to live in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont, where some scenes from THE DEAD ZONE were filmed. Specificly the scene where the guy rapes and kills the girl in the gazebo. I'm not sure if the gazebo was already in the park or if it was built for the movie, but it's still there. I was always amused by seeing the tourists and familys sitting in there having lunch.
Fun fact: my father rented the set dressers a bunch of furniture, and the table Johnny and Herbert Lom sat at during his counciling became out kitchen table for years.

[Ian11]

I live in the Los Feliz area in Los Angeles. Some of my favorite movies was filmed around here. Most notably most of "Swingers" was filmed in locations all around here. One of the locations for "L.A. Confidential" 'Pierce Patchett's home' was filmed in Los Feliz. And a mile or two from here many of the locations for "Mulholland Drive" was filmed. Besides the traffic I love the vibe this part of the city gives. Something very "noir" or "Chandleresque" about this part of town that a lot of filmmakers feed off on. And of course there's Griffith Park and the Griffith Park Observatory that's been used too many times to mention.

[SmackDaddy]

Went and watched them film the party scenes for Arlington Road in Pearland, Tx, that's right, Pearland, Tx. Got to see Jeff Bridges and Joan Cusak, and got to talk with one of the camera techs for a bit. Pretty cool to see how it all works.

[Brain Stew]

Some scenes in Girl, Interrupted were filmed in Mechanicsburg and Harrisburg.

Most of the John Travolta movie, Lucky Numbers, about the scandal rigging the PA Lottery were filmed in Harrisburg.

And I think the Gotham city skyline in Batman is the Capitol skyline.

[Pants]

And I think the Gotham city skyline in Batman is the Capitol skyline The movie or the TV show?

[renaldow]

Mr. Holland's Opus was filmed at a HS I used to live next door to. Dr. Giggles is another one shot down the street from where I lived. I actually interrupted their shooting one day, which was great as they were complete buttholes.

Actually quite a few more, Portland has had a lot of films made here, the last one was The Hunted and it wreaked havoc the entire time they were here. Glad to see them go.

[echo725]

Closed down Holmesburg Prison near me was the setting for Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory. Also used at the end of Up Close and Personal..

[DonnachaOne]

I was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland. The part in The Quiet Man, where John Wayne's train pulls into "Castletown" - I've been at that train station many times.

[Chipmaker]

The tryout scenes in The Rookie were filmed at the local minor league ballpark, Dell Diamond in Round Rock, TX. I had partial season tickets for a couple seasons, and our seating section is visible briefly. The stands are empty, of course, but it's a treat seeing it.

[PJsig08]

Off the top of my head, I was in SF for a day and was pretty much on The Hulk set, when they were rolling cars down the hill and bringing in the helicopter.

[mookyman]

The upcoming film The Human Stain was largely filmed at Williams College, about five miles away from me. Several of my friends are extras in the film.

[Sernov]

Caddyshack - The golf course is still there, right across the street from my college and Dolphins training camp in Davie, Fla.

There's Something About Mary - The high school is actually the city of Plantation's City Hall building.

Bully - The comic shop is Tate's Comics where I used to pick up my weekly stuff. They filmed the outdoor scenes at a different plaza though.

Ace Ventura - The Cannibal Corpse concert venue was a local dive in Ft. Lauderdale, I went with my best friend and his brother. Only his brother came out, just as Jim Carrey (Ace) walks in doing his head banging, he's right behind him.

Thats a few of the many movies filmed around South Florida. Oh and of course, Superfuzz was filmed here on location too :D

[Pants]

I thought of another one:

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion: At the end when they get to the prom it's supposed to be a hotel, but for whatever reason they filmed the exteriors at the Newport Beach Public Library.

[yojimbob]

Jumangi was filmed almost completly in my home town of Keene, New Hampshire.

[Bobby Shalom]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Wicker Park, Chicago.

[Eplicon]

When I lived in Bridgewater, NJ, the movie North came into town just to film some exterior shots of the local mall, Bridgewater Commons. It was weird seeing the trailer for the film a short time later because it was shown at the movieplex that's inside the mall. Most people in the audience did a double-take.

The local paper made a big deal out of it, putting it on the front page along the other headlines. Elijah North and Rob Reiner were there, along with the usual professional extras. But it was filmed early in the morning before the mall opened, and the extras were carrying shopping bags of stores that did not exist at the mall as the interior shots were done back in L.A.

[SPiRAL]

Hal9000 , you must live in Uptown Whittier.

[hal9000]

Originally posted by SPiRAL
Hal9000 , you must live in Uptown Whittier.

Actually just a few minutes away, East of uptown, closer to Michigan Park (north of Whittier Blvd.).

I grew up here so I actually was able to see all of the movies I mentioned being filmed.

But uptown Whittier does resemble "any town USA" that's for sure.

I was 15 when they shot Masters of the Universe, that actually inspired me to get into the industry . A few years later I saw Steven Spielberg when he visited the Back to the Future 2 set at Whittier High School. It's not big deal today, but when your a teenager and one of your story telling heroes comes to town it can really change your life.

[Giantrobo]

In my old neighborhood in LA, we lived in an area that used to be an upscale white area. The houses were/are huge houses and when the area went down they replaced some of them with Apartment buildings. About 5 of the houses are still there and here's a list of shows/films I remember out there. Mind you, these are just the ones I remember:

The People Under the Stairs. (1 house away from me)
Evil Toons. (across the street and a few houses down)
Wonder Woman. ( 1 house over to the right of us)

[Tom Banjo]

The mill that my grandparents spent their lives working at is the same one in Norma Rae. And most of the indoor scenes from the movie were filmed in the illustrious Golden Cherry Motel, where you can supposedly pay by the hour these days...

[harpo787]

To add to Sernov's South Florida filmings:

2 Fast 2 Furious was filmed quite a bit down here...one of the major driving sequences was filmed on the high way (I-75) that I use to get to work out in the Everglades...boy did that delay me, but I got some cool pics too.

Also, I THINK some of Bad Boys 2 was filmed down here around Ft. Lauderdale, was it not? Didn't witness that at all....

On a slightly different neighborhood, a movie was filmed where I went to military school. Taps (with Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, Tom Cruise and others) was filmed at Valley Forge Military Academy. I did not attend there until years after though. It's funny to watch the flick, see them in a room and say "That's in Wheeler Hall" (or wherever), and then they walk out the door and they're literally halfway across campus.

I know that's a classic occurance in tons of flicks, though only one I can recall reading about would be Ferris Bueller's Day Off being in Chicago, and that they'll be driving in one part of town, make a right turn and be clear across town. Amusing stuff I tell ya!

[Pants]

Originally posted by harpo787
I know that's a classic occurance in tons of flicks, though only one I can recall reading about would be Ferris Bueller's Day Off being in Chicago, and that they'll be driving in one part of town, make a right turn and be clear across town. Amusing stuff I tell ya! Most amusing is that Ferris Bueller's house is actually in Long Beach, CA :)

[BadlyDrawnBoy]

Originally posted by DonnachaOne
I was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland. The part in The Quiet Man, where John Wayne's train pulls into "Castletown" - I've been at that train station many times.

I was in Clifden down the road last weekend where there also were scenes for the quiet man shot.

I was born in Drogheda where Cal was filmed.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087019

[tasha99]

Animal House

[Giles]

One scene in the Harrison Ford/Kristen Scott Thomas clunker "Random Hearts" was shot a few blocks from my house. It was a car drive by shot - nothing spectacular, but cool nonetheless to see on the big screen.

[Mountain Mike]

I think everybody should go to the internet movie data base (I am not allowed to post URL's) and create and account there. All the movies listed there have a field for filming locations, and you can submit updates there.


My Favorite Martian:
was filmed in Santa Barbara where I went to High School. The TV station was KEYT channel 3 although it was channel 10 in the movie.

"Sunset pier" where they had the senior citizen tanning competition was actually Stearns Wharf.

[TheMovieman]

In my hometown, they made a TV movie called "Finish Line" starring James Brolin, Josh Brolin and Mariska Hargitay. This was in the late 80s. Pretty bad movie but kind of topical now about steroid use.

Other than that, the town over "Without Limits" with Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland and Monica Potter was filmed...

[Zen Peckinpah]

As a Monmouth County, NJ resident my whole life it's pretty given that Kevin Smith has shot a lot of stuff here. The opening and climax of Dogma was right in front of Red Bank Catholic High School, the Quick Stop in Leonardo, the credits in Clerks II where they show the clown (sign for the Spirits liquor store on 35), Jack's Music Shoppe in Chasing Amy, etc. I don't think I know someone who isn't an admirer of the man in this whole area.

Another note: a few episodes from the fourth season of The Sopranos were shot literally minutes from Oceanport, where I live. They shot the racetrack stable scenes when Tony gets the horse at Monmouth Park in Oceanport (about the only thing people know the town exists for :D), and Tony and Carmela's beach house in the last episode is located over in Sea Bright. The Pope of Greenwich Village also shot its racetrack scenes at Monmouth Park.

Annie shot in part at Monmouth University in West Long Branch back in the early 80's.

Recently, I saw The Wrestler with my cousin, who pointed out several areas he's familiar with, notably the dollar store Rourke goes to before the hardcore match, several of the Rahway locations, and also was telling me he has been to the strip club seen in the movie. It's also very easy to spot Asbury during one of the pivotal scenes. Another note: when Randy works at the deli, it's at an Acme supermarket, a chain VERY predominant in this neck of the woods.

One of my mom's good friends saw Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg picking up Chinese food in Freehold, NJ while filming War of the Worlds.

Another interesting note that may or may not count: Aqua Teen Hunger Force apparently takes place in Keansburg, NJ, home of a notable water park and a lot of people similar to Carl from that show.

[Brack]

http://www.impawards.com/1988/posters/rain_man.jpg

This shot and all (probably) the outside scenes of the mental institution is really a convent (St. Anne's) that's just a few miles down the same road from where I live. They had to cut down all the trees along the driveway, and planted new ones within the last year.

[BambooLounge]

They shot some scenes from The Departed by me in Williamsburg, notably the candy store where Frank buys young Colin's groceries. Also, the scene where Leo knocks that guy in the mouth as he reaches for a cigarette. I spent a day hanging around the set. Was about 2 inches away from Ray Whinstone for a bit while he chatted with the crew by the snack table and actually met and got an autograph from Martin Scorsese. Saw a lot of Leo as well, but did not get very close, the paparazzi were there and hounded him a bit whenever he stepped outside on the set.

Also, the Dry Cleaners in this episode of Flight of the Conchords (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095775/) was shot in my neighborhood. I actually stumbled upon it as I walked home from a morning jog and asked what they were shooting and they said, "A new HBO show called Flight of the Conchords"...I really like the show and got a kick out of it when the episode aired.

[droidguy1119]

I made a thread similar to this awhile back, but I'm too lazy to find it (and this one is older). When I worked for a short while in North Bend, WA, upon driving in I was stunned to realize that it was the same area as the beginning of the terrible Vanishing remake with Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock. I had watched it just recently and it was really trippy to recognize it, because I hadn't picked up on the fact that the movie was shot nearby.

[Ronnie Dobbs]

I live in Wicker Park a neighborhood in Chicago we got a whole terrible Josh Hartnett movie as well as High Fidelity and some other stuff.

[Rockmjd23]

Mystic River shot some scenes near me.

[Giantrobo]

In my old neighborhood in LA, we lived in an area that used to be an upscale white area. The houses were/are huge houses and when the area went down they replaced some of them with Apartment buildings. About 5 of the houses are still there and here's a list of shows/films I remember out there. Mind you, these are just the ones I remember:

The People Under the Stairs. (1 house away from me)
Evil Toons. (across the street and a few houses down)
Wonder Woman. ( 1 house over to the right of us)

A scene from "Pumpkin"('02) was filmed right in my old apartment building in the same neighborhood.

[asianxcore]

From FilminAmerica.com

Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom: The Shanghai airport scenes were shot at Hamilton Air Force Base, just east of the Ignacio section of Novato, possibly on or around 8 September 1983.


Star Wars: Episode VI Return Of The Jedi: The celebration at Mos Eisley at the end of the Special Edition was shot in front of a large blue screen at a warehouse parking lot in the Bel Marin Keys section of Novato.

[benh911]

The upcoming Bruce Willis film The Surrogates had chase/helicopter scenes filmed it my city. It was crazy seeing the helicopters hovering so low.

[JoeySeven]

Auburn and Foresthill,Ca.
Lived in both cities,still have a house in Foresthill.

xXx (2002)
I Remeber the Foresthill bridge(highest in N.CA) being shut down for awhile to shoot the seen where the Corvette jumps off the bridge.

Phenomenon (1996) old town Auburn mostly

John Travolta was driving around a white pickup truck with all his fans/stalkers in tow while he was in town. ;-)

the Auto garage was a fake setup,It was a stage setup right across the street from the old shanghai bar(RIP) :-(

others
Wisdom (1986)
Protocol (1984)
Breakdown(1997)

[RagingBull80]

I live in Oklahoma...They don't film movies here.:sad:

[Mondo Kane]

I live in Oklahoma...They don't film movies here.:sad:

The Outsiders

[Brack]

"Top 10 Movies Filmed in the State of Oklahoma"
http://okc.about.com/od/factsandinformation/tp/moviesfilmedok.htm

[RagingBull80]

"Top 10 Movies Filmed in the State of Oklahoma"
http://okc.about.com/od/factsandinformation/tp/moviesfilmedok.htm
I knew that movies had been shot here before but not many and not any recently that I could recall.

There's only one location on that list that I could actually take you to.

Awesome, I had no idea Near Dark was partly filmed here. I love that movie.

[Cosmic Bus]

Frozen River was filmed just a few minutes down the road from where I live, and What Lies Beneath largely took place on and around the Lake Champlain area here.

A bit less local yet still considered "near by" in this rural part of the state, the revisionist Star Trek: New Voyages (http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/) episodes are filmed about 50 miles south of here.

[riotinmyskull]

The following films and/or television shows have been filmed in whole or in part in Virginia.
Cold Mountain (2003)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Hannibal (2001)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
JFK (1991)
Kingpin (1996)
Minority Report (2002)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
North Country (2005)
Patriot Games (1992)
The Addams Family (1991)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The New World (2005)
The Recruit (2003)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The West Wing (1999 TV series)
War of the Worlds (2005)
xXx (2002)

[Brack]

I knew that movies had been shot here before but not many and not any recently that I could recall.

There's only one location on that list that I could actually take you to.

Awesome, I had no idea Near Dark was partly filmed here. I love that movie.

Werd. You just sounded a little lonely in here. ;)

[majorjoe23]

A couple years after I moved out of Tampa a bunch of Punisher was shot on and around my college campus. It was kind of fun to spot stuff "That's not a movie theater, it's our drama studio" or "That's not a nightclub, it's a bank."

[RagingBull80]

Werd. You just sounded a little lonely in here. ;)
Yeah, not a lot of cool stuff happens here in Oklahoma.

I had actually forgotten that The Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars was shot in Wayne Coyne's backyard which is just a few miles from where I live. I remember driving by his house and being able to see parts of the sets and stuff.

[JJE-187]

Even though it was before I was born The Learning Tree was shot in my hometown and my family was/is good friends with alot of the extras in that film. I even got married in the park that is was filmed in

[riley_dude]

I live not too far from the Dunsmuir House in Oakland California. They used the House in movies such as Phantasm, A View to a Kill and Burnt Offerings.

[KillerCannibal]

When my dad was living in Venice, CA he went out to get the paper and there was a film crew set up outside on the street shooting Hollywood Homicide. Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett were sitting in a car right in front of him.

[Sheff]

I live in Wicker Park a neighborhood in Chicago we got a whole terrible Josh Hartnett movie as well as High Fidelity and some other stuff.Was that movie even filmed in Wicker Park? I remember seeing shots of the Damen/North/Mil intersection and it looked absolutely nothing like it. Same goes for the park. I think the opening shot on Wacker was the only thing that looked even remotely like Chicago.

[McHawkson]

I had couples around here:

Kindergarten Cop - the scene where Arnold followed Crisp in the mall. That's at Main Place Mall in north Santa Ana and just 4 blocks from here. I wandered around trailers area for 30 minutes before being caught and boot me out. :lol: Timecop was also filmed there.

Rain Man - the train station at the end of movie was filmed in Santa Ana and about a mile from here.

In Small Soldiers, the part where you see a circle street, that's in Orange and about a mile and half from here.

Lot more in Santa Ana which mostly filmed at Santa Ana Courthouse (old courthouse) and John Wayne Airport.

[Maxflier]

I don't know exactly how much of each movie was filmed here, but the following had at least some scenes shot where I live:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Deja Vu
All the Kings Men (2006)
The Fire Next Time (TV movie)
Tarzan of the Apes

[dsa_shea]

The Outsiders

I lived just a few blocks from the place where the bar scene was. That bar is no longer there as they built a hotel and a Burger King right in that area. I lived there when I was a teenager. Now I live just a few miles from there. The drive in theater "Admiral Twin" is just around the corner from where I work.

[calhoun07]

When I lived in Minnesota, Angus was filmed at my high school.

In Kansas City, I suppose a few movies have been filmed here, but not too long ago Ride With the Devil was filmed not too far from where I live.

[Ky-Fi]

Sandra Bullock's "The Proposal", which I think is coming out this spring, filmed about a year ago in my town. It was pretty cool, as they transformed the little downtown area into the town of Sitka, Alaska. They put up a big totem pole in the town square, and had various Alaska signs all over town. I went into town one day after I got home from work to check it out, and yes, Sandra Bullock did pass by me on the sidewalk. I think I really impressed her with my slack-jawed gawking.

[Double_Oh_7]

Was that movie even filmed in Wicker Park? I remember seeing shots of the Damen/North/Mil intersection and it looked absolutely nothing like it. Same goes for the park. I think the opening shot on Wacker was the only thing that looked even remotely like Chicago.

Nope, shot in Canada. Go figure...

[Ash Ketchum]

A friend of mine was producing an independent film about 15 years ago and I let him use my apartment and I convinced my mother to let them use her house and a family friend to let them use her apartment. Big mistake. Never again. What a disruption. The worst thing was when I finally saw the finished film on VHS tape (it never got any kind of a release), there was a scene where the villain rifles through the drawers of the hero's desk. Well, that desk was mine and I had no idea they were going to do that. Lucky nothing incriminating was there. But what if...? :blush:

[yodavigoda]

here in Columbia, SC: they filmed parts of Kevin Bacon's Death Sentence about a mile from my house.

also, Nailed (yet to be released) with Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal. not sure of the status of this one, they stop filming a couple of times due to financing difficulties.

[printerati]

http://www.impawards.com/1988/posters/rain_man.jpg

This shot and all (probably) the outside scenes of the mental institution is really a convent (St. Anne's) that's just a few miles down the same road from where I live. They had to cut down all the trees along the driveway, and planted new ones within the last year.

Yep. Also, Pompilio's (the restaurant where Hoffman counts the toothpicks) is still alive and well, and has memorabilia all over the place. I am not particularly enamored with their food, however.

[Brack]

Yep. Also, Pompilio's (the restaurant where Hoffman counts the toothpicks) is still alive and well, and has memorabilia all over the place. I am not particularly enamored with their food, however.

well, I didn't want to brag too much. ;)

I never knew which scene it was in. I've always meant to check out Pompilio's just for this very reason, but never have.

[Larry C.]

Well I grew up 3 houses down for Mary's house in "There's Something About Mary."

[TheySentYou]

Biloxi Blues
Tuskegee Airmen (HBO original)

[kevinlord190]

the entire movie of american graffiti was filmed 5 minutes from my house
in modesto

[clappj]

I was an extra in Hellraiser 3: Hell On Earth when it filmed here in the High Point/Greensboro area back in '91.

[Randy Miller III]

Movies filmed fully or partially in my hometown (Harrisburg, PA):

Girl, Interrupted (hospital scene)
The Distinguished Gentleman (capitol scenes)
Major League II (Spring training scenes)
Lucky Numbers (restaurant scene)

Most are due to the state capital downtown, as well as our scenic minor league ballpark on the Susquehanna River.
Also, these were filmed fully or partially in nearby locations:

Scotland, PA
Mannequin (Camp Hill)
Witness (Lancaster County)
A whole bunch of movies and documentaries (Gettysburg)

One more sidenote: "24 - Redemption" was going to be filmed partially in Enola, PA (right across the river from here), but they backed out before production started. It'd be interesting to see how that would've doubled for the African wilderness... :)

[sauce07]

Parts of Contact were filmed in my hometown. The scenes in Jodi Fosters childhood home were filmed in Herndon, VA.

[Giles]

^ that was Herndon, I didn't know that.

[sauce07]

^ yup, the house was down by the community center. I just remember a bunch of trucks and finding it all pretty boring.

[alfredog1976]

Not really my neighborhood, but next door to my work. It's a japanese corporate building, very sleek look to the building. They filmed:
Elizabethtown (Opening shot you can see my work building. The place where Orlando Bloom worked in the movie is the Nikken building next to my work)
Transformers (they flew a blackhawk in and landed in front of building. Though the scenes they filmed must have been in the cutting room floor)
Iron Man (they came to film 2 different times, a few weeks apart)
You Me & Dupree (my co-worker saw Owen Wilson riding his bike in the parking lot with his dog)

[Neitzl]

I live near, and used to live in, the Pilsen area in Chicago.

The Untouchables: The warehouse scene when Ness crashes his truck and finds nothing but umbrellas. The Exteriors were about 2 blocks away from me.

Primal Fear: Richard Gere visiting Steven Bauer in the pool hall/bar. 3 blocks away, across from my grammar school.

Wanted: They filmed scenes on 22nd and Canal. Mostly drive by stuff, but it's where the Assassin's place was as well.

The Break Up: Used a local bar, the skylark, on 22nd and halsted.

Bad Boys: The Sean Penn film. They were all over Pilsen, were filming at night right outside a church I used to attend.

[marty888]

Living in midtown Manhattan, there are literally hundreds of movies & TV shows shot within walking distance of my apartment.

Ironically, the one movie meant to be happening in front of my building (<i>Phone Booth</i>) was shot in LA.

[Damfino]

Being from LA means that thousands of movies have been filmed there, but the one that comes the closest to where I used to live is Boogie Nights which has a lot of location shots in Reseda.

[KillerCannibal]

Almost forgot: Vanilla Sky had some scenes filmed at John Wayne Airport, which is 15 min from my house.

[Raul3]

I've lived in the Washington,DC area and right now in the Bay Area, so a lot of movies, not like LA or NY, but a lot.

The Exorcist, American Graffiti, The Hulk, The Blair Witch Project, etc.

[redcon1]

I lived a little less than a mile from the old Chain of Rocks bridge in St. Louis, where the climatic chase took place in "Escape from New York".

I remember driving by there along Riverview Boulevard and seeing all the equipment and a large backdrop set on my side of the bridge.
I'm not sure if that just to block outside viewing or disturbances or if it was actually used as scenery. The side facing the boulevard was blank.

[McHawkson]

Almost forgot: Vanilla Sky had some scenes filmed at John Wayne Airport, which is 15 min from my house.

Do you know A Few Good Men was filmed in Crystal Cove? Mama Mia! also filmed at the beach.

Demolition Man was filmed in two places in Irvine as museum scenes.

[The Bus]

Absolutely not.

[NoirFan]

Secret Window was filmed in the Canadian town where my parents have a summer house. I wasn't there for any of the shooting, but they said Johnny Depp was really cool and even gave a local teenager some guitar lessons between takes! I had to wince when my Dad told me of this embarrassing exchange, though:

Dad: "My son used to watch you on 21 Jump Street all the time!"
Johnny Depp: Polite smile and nod, no verbal response.

The film itself was absolutely horrendous, but it was fun spotting the various recognizable landmarks in it: "Hey! I think that red speck in the distance is my parent's summer house!

[BigDaddy]

When I was young and on Spring Break I saw Johnny Be Good being filmed in Georgetown. At least I can say I saw Tony Stark as a young man. ;)

[trespoochies]

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre houese was filmed at the end of my neighborhood in Round Rock Texas. They've since moved the house to Fredricksberg Texas where it's now a bed and breakfast. The road at the beginning of the film where the kids are picked up is the same road where some scenes from What's Eating Gilbert Grape was filmed. Round Rock is about 15 minutes away from Austin where too many Robert Rodriguez films are made.

[trespoochies]

When I was young and on Spring Break I saw Johnny Be Good being filmed in Georgetown. At least I can say I saw Tony Stark as a young man. ;)

Hey, I remember that! Georgetown is also where they filmed My Boyfriend's Back - if anyone remembers that one. It was directed by Bob Balaban who hung out a lot at the theater I worked at.

[whotony]

many movies have been filmed in Philly, at least two have been filmed in the neighborhood in Philly were i grew up.

Rocky (and parts of the other films in the series)

Fighting Back - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083936/

[shizawn]

Harold and Maude was filmed all throughout the SF Bay Area, including Redwood City and San Carlos, where I grew up.

Also, the freeway scene from Matrix Reloaded has a repeated road sign taken from Redwood City.
http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/TheMatrixReloaded/FreewayChase/RedwoodCity/m2reloaded-redwoodcity04.jpg

However, the scene was actually filmed in Alameda. I used to live off Woodside Rd. and Marsh Rd. and worked off of Whipple Ave.

[JoeySeven]

Harold and Maude was filmed all throughout the SF Bay Area, including Redwood City and San Carlos, where I grew up.

Also, the freeway scene from Matrix Reloaded has a repeated road sign taken from Redwood City.
http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/TheMatrixReloaded/FreewayChase/RedwoodCity/m2reloaded-redwoodcity04.jpg

However, the scene was actually filmed in Alameda. I used to live off Woodside Rd. and Marsh Rd. and worked off of Whipple Ave.

Small world.I was born and lived in Redwood City for most of my youth.
Class of 1987.I know alot about RWC.
Cheers
Joe

[dyerjp]

Parts of Contact were filmed in my hometown. The scenes in Jodi Fosters childhood home were filmed in Herndon, VA.

i thought that i was the only person here that has heard of herndon. about 3 yrs ago, another film was made there at amphora's diner but i do not know what became of that movie.

[sauce07]

i thought that i was the only person here that has heard of herndon. about 3 yrs ago, another film was made there at amphora's diner but i do not know what became of that movie.

Lived in Herndon for 25 years. Didn't know about the movie filmed at Amphora's, i'll have to keep my eyes open.

[DVDMagic]

Thank You For Smoking
Leatherheads
Junebug
Cabin Fever
Nation Lampoon's 'Pucked'

These were just a few filmed in and around where I live

[astrochimp]

X-Men:Spencer Smith Park(on Lake Ontario) right down the road from me was transformed into Liberty Island.

[fernsita]

The upcoming Bruce Willis film The Surrogates had chase/helicopter scenes filmed it my city. It was crazy seeing the helicopters hovering so low.

I was just glancing through this thread and I saw your post. Do you live in Boston by any chance? I know Bruce Willis was there recently doing re-shoots and I have been excited about this film for quite some time now.