Fri 29 Aug 2008
If you were in Oregon in the eighties, you’ve got a better than average chance of having seen Goonies and Stand By Me—both shot in our fine state, and extra-famous because of that.
Where are you from, and what movies do locals pretty much Have To See on account of the locale?
Posted by Josh Millard9 answers so far!
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Richard Gere Intersections does a nice job showing off Vancouver BC.
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Anyway, the end of Little Miss Sunshine was recently shot here in Ventura, about a mile from my house! And in Santa Cruz, a lot of movies were filmed, but Lost Boys was always the big deal, and they usually showed it some summer night at the Boardwalk.
Chump Change, though the main character takes a walk around Milwaukee that would take days.
Show Falling on Cedars was shot here on Whidbey Island. I think. Or some of it. Some of the movie or some of the island or some of both but probably not none of both.
Which is kind of funny, since the story much more closely follows the fate of another Puget Sound Island, Bainbridge, but Bainbridge is almost exclusively suburbs now.
I actually had to go look this up, because I had absolutely no idea… but it looks like Harrisburg has been in a bunch of things, far more than its relative obscurity would suggest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisburg_in_film_and_television
Scotland, PA is probably my favorite, btw… I thought it was a fictional location until I drove by the exit a few months ago on my way to Tennessee.
One of the reasons I loved the tv show “Homicide: Life on the Streets” was it’s bittersweet loveletter subtext to Baltimore.
Stephen King’s The Mist was filmed in Northern Louisiana even though it’s set in Maine.
My favorite bits are the fact that Zapp’s potato chips are seen on the store shelves and a Caddo Parish fire engine goes up the street during the movie.