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I just finished watching the movie 'John Q.' (I liked it.) I knew beforehand, that some filming was done in Oshawa, the city I've been living in for about 20 years.

It was slightly surreal to see that John Q's character lived on the street I was living on when I first moved to the city. The street sign was blurred, but I recognized the street, houses, etc. I had thought that they had filmed a scene in the park on the next street over, but in fact it was on the very street I lived on... possibly only a few houses down from where I used to live.

Anyone else have their neighboured featured in a movie?

With the exception of this, the rather sub-par movie 'Welcome to Mooseport' was filmed in Port Perry, where my parents were living not too long ago. I recognized all the locations in that movie, so that was slightly surreal too.

That, and I live about a 5 minute walk from The McLaughlin Estate, which is a mansion that has been featured in several movies, including X-Men, The Tuxedo, and Billy Madison.

At the fear of revealing too much of myself, Ferris Bueler's Day Off had a scene in a town where I grew up in.

I've been featured in a movie.

Not my neighbourhood, but my school has been the setting for several films/tv series.

EDIT: Oo 500 posts, :fluffle:s for all :D

I've been featured in a movie.

Do Tell!


Or is it the kind of movie that you can't talk about on this forum...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byker_Grove

Filmed where I used to live in Newcastle.

/egads

At the fear of revealing too much of myself, Ferris Bueler's Day Off had a scene in a town where I grew up in.

Don't worry about revealing your identity.. anyone who's ever lived in northern Illinois has had their house or school used in a John Hughes movie. :p

Yeah, a few.

Well, it depends if a city counts as a neighbourhood. If it does then it's been in several, if not then I can think of one that had my neighbourhood in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byker_Grove

Filmed where I used to live in Newcastle.

/egads
w00t Benwell! Never ask a Geordie to say Byker Grove...

Here in my city, quite a few.

In my street, none.

Not in a movie per say, but the TV show The Office is set in the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton area where I live. It's pretty cool catching all the references to local businesses and places.

Yes, lots of them. According to the city film commission:

The Unknown (2006) - Greenstreet Films
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) - ABC Television
Rose Red (2002) - ABC Television
Enough (2002) - Columbia Pictures
The Fugitive (2001) - Warner Bros. Television (CBS)
Highway (2001) - New Line Cinema
Preston Tylk A.K.A "Bad Seed" (1999) - Next Generation Productions
Get Carter (1999) - Canton Company
10 Things I Hate About You (1998) - Disney Productions
(filmed at the High School down the street)
Black Circle Boys (1997) - Chelsea Drugstore Productions
Prefontaine (1996) - Buena Vista
Black Sheep (1996) - Paramount Pictures
(the best film on this list)
Countdown (1996) - Positive Incorporated
Born to be Wild (1994) - Outlaw Productions/Warner Brothers
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1991) - Rock'n Cradle Productions
(filmed only a block over from where I live)
I Love You to Death (1990) - Tri-Star Productions
Come See the Paradise (1990) - Lilico Pictures Inc.
Chips the War Dog (1989) - Disney
Waiting for the Light (1989) - Pressman/Epic/Transworld
(the majority of the old vehicles in this film belong to a friend of mine.)
Three Fugitives (1988) - Disney
Plain Clothes (1988) - Paramount Pictures
War Games (1983) - MGM Studios
(the 2nd best film on this list)
Sweet Revenge (1977) - MGM Studios

At the fear of revealing too much of myself, Ferris Bueler's Day Off had a scene in a town where I grew up in.

I know where you live!

Anyway, films are filmed where I live fairly often.

Just yesterday I watched Stranger Than Fiction which was also filmed at the school I currently attend (University of Illinois, Chicago.)

kinky boots is set in Northampton doubt it has my street though, then again I haven't seen it ;) :eek:

Not in a movie per say, but the TV show The Office is set in the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton area where I live. It's pretty cool catching all the references to local businesses and places.

Really, which ones?

I'm not from there, but I've made so many trips to the Walmart distribution center in Wilkes-Barre that I might know them. :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066090/

:)

I don't know, how can you find out if your city/town hosted the shooting of a movie?

Do Tell!


Or is it the kind of movie that you can't talk about on this forum...?

Lol...no, I'm not a porn star. It was a low-budget horror film, and I was a background extra in a couple of scenes. So I guess I wasn't really featured, but I was in it. Didn't get paid, though. The filming was back in February, and I have no idea when it comes out.

Heh, what a fitting thread. I just watched The Bourne Conspiracy on TV, which was for the most part shot in Berlin. They took some liberties with the geography, too. :p Not as many as Run, Lola, Run, though.

As for my neighborhood, just around the corner from me there was for several years a steady set for a TV show ("Berlin, Berlin"). It's an unexpensive part of town, so they just rented a shop front and decorated it as a comic book store - the graffiti on the outside was actually sprayed on sheets of plywood that were put on the facade during the shoot and taken off afterward. They did leave up the comic book displays all the time, though. Could only find a pic of the inside (http://www.daserste.de/cmspix/bildgalerie/zoom_400_300_2802200540525.jpg), meh.

I never watched the show, so it was mainly a pain in the ass because whenever they were shooting they'd be blocking tons of parking spaces for days.

Lol...no, I'm not a porn star. It was a low-budget horror film, and I was a background extra in a couple of scenes. So I guess I wasn't really featured, but I was in it. Didn't get paid, though. The filming was back in February, and I have no idea when it comes out.

Oh... well there goes that line of thinking...

A horror film? Not even a shower scene with a slasher or something?

:p just kidding. Let us know when it comes out though. Maybe we can do a little 'where's waldo' routine.

I never watched the show, so it was mainly a pain in the ass because whenever they were shooting they'd be blocking tons of parking spaces for days.

I sometimes have the same problem driving through parts of downtown Toronto. In Oshawa, there's one street which lines up with trailers when they shoot at McLaughlin house. I would often walk by them on the way to the gym.

As for inconveniences, when they were filming the party scene for the Tuxedo, they filmed it late at night, and it was very, very loud. I could hear music followed by constant yells of 'Cut!' for a couple of hours. It's all good for the city though, right?

Really, which ones?

I'm not from there, but I've made so many trips to the Walmart distribution center in Wilkes-Barre that I might know them. :)

Radio stations like Rock 107 and Froggy 101, restaurants like Coopers, the Hooters in Scranton, and another that's name is escaping me, Lake Wallenpaupack... A few more that I can't seem to remember. Various cast members have been guests for local radio stations and most of them were in Scranton for the St. Patrick Day's parade.

Pretty neat 'cause this place doesn't get a whole lot of attention otherwise.

Radio stations like Rock 107 and Froggy 101, restaurants like Coopers, the Hooters in Scranton, and another that's name is escaping me, Lake Wallenpaupack... A few more that I can't seem to remember. Various cast members have been guests for local radio stations and most of them were in Scranton for the St. Patrick Day's parade.

Pretty neat 'cause this place doesn't get a whole lot of attention otherwise.

Coopers? They gave me a free crab hat for my birthday. :p

Coopers? They gave me a free crab hat for my birthday. :p

Awesome! I know they'll give you a free meal for your birthday, but I've never been. :D

The movie "The Squid and the Whale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squid_and_the_Whale)" was set directly in my old neighborhood. A ton of movies have been in Brooklyn, even more in NYC.

Awesome! I know they'll give you a free meal for your birthday, but I've never been. :D

Oh yeah! I got that too. :p

Coopers is one of my favourite restaurants, I just wish they took resevations..

Radio stations like Rock 107 and Froggy 101, restaurants like Coopers, the Hooters in Scranton, and another that's name is escaping me, Lake Wallenpaupack... A few more that I can't seem to remember. Various cast members have been guests for local radio stations and most of them were in Scranton for the St. Patrick Day's parade.

Pretty neat 'cause this place doesn't get a whole lot of attention otherwise.

Nice. :p

w00t Benwell! Never ask a Geordie to say Byker Grove...

Yeah...when I lived there even the Rottwielers had body guards...

no only on the news for someone killing someone

Bluffton's never been in a movie, but a major movie star was raised there. Buster Keaton and his family were on the vaudeville circuit during the summer, then they came to Bluffton to winter over. In fact, the house I grew up in was once owned by his parents. The property next door was reputed to have 'the fountain of youth' in it's well. In the woods next to the school, we'd always find bottles and plates from the bar, Pascoes, where Keaton hung out.

There's a porn movie star in my town. Or so I've heard.

some scenes of 'Lost' were filmed on Oahu
'Baywatch Hawaii' was near my first apartment
'50 First Dates'
'Hawaii'
etc...


tho there was a porn film starring John Holmes that centered around my friend's apartment building. :p

I just finished watching the movie 'John Q.' (I liked it.) I knew beforehand, that some filming was done in Oshawa, the city I've been living in for about 20 years.

It was slightly surreal to see that John Q's character lived on the street I was living on when I first moved to the city. The street sign was blurred, but I recognized the street, houses, etc. I had thought that they had filmed a scene in the park on the next street over, but in fact it was on the very street I lived on... possibly only a few houses down from where I used to live.

Anyone else have their neighboured featured in a movie?

With the exception of this, the rather sub-par movie 'Welcome to Mooseport' was filmed in Port Perry, where my parents were living not too long ago. I recognized all the locations in that movie, so that was slightly surreal too.

That, and I live about a 5 minute walk from The McLaughlin Estate, which is a mansion that has been featured in several movies, including X-Men, The Tuxedo, and Billy Madison.

Dude, on any given day I go to work I'll pass a half-dozen film, TV & commercial shoots, news reporters with videographers in tow, and student film-makers. It's all a blur, and I've given up asking what's going on.

Err...I lived across the street from a hockey player....does that count?

Oh, wait! I live in Luxembourg now! If there's ever been a film camera in the country, it's probably filmed my neighborhood.

Dude, on any given day I go to work I'll pass a half-dozen film, TV & commercial shoots, news reporters with videographers in tow, and student film-makers. It's all a blur, and I've given up asking what's going on.

No doubt. Toronto has that in spades, downtown in particular. I just found it bizarre watching the movie, and seeing the same street I lived on when I was 12. Just weird.

Not in my town, but part of the film The Fugitive was shot not too far from me.

My college (not saying the name) has been the filming location (though never the setting, pooh) of multiple crime dramas and horror movies. It's kind of fun to rattle off the full list in front of freshmen, even better if that happen to be living in one of the dorm rooms used for filming.

Office Space and Grindhouse.

My office building hosted the external shots for Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.

http://www.lhpa-nc.com/Corporate/GlaxoForect/Images/GLAXO2lawn.jpg

Bull Durham was shot in the neighborhood around my previous office building.

In my old town, I worked tech on:The Prince of Homburg (1977) (TV)
The Private Eyes(1981)
My Fellow Americans (1996)
Being There (1979)
My Fellow Americans (1996)
Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994)
and two episodes of Lifeline (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138974/) (1978), the first network reality show.

The Last of the Mohicans, Nell, and Dirty Dancing were all filmed in the area around my old town, and I know a lot of the extras on all of them, but you did specify 'neighborhood'. Patch Adams had one small scene filmed 2 blocks from my old house, so if you really want to be technically in my neighborhood, that would probably be it.

My office building hosted the external shots for Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.

http://www.lhpa-nc.com/Corporate/GlaxoForect/Images/GLAXO2lawn.jpgcool, I remember that movie... and yeah, that building does look familiar.


oh and Karate Kid 2... if you're ever in Oahu, I'll show you that little Island seen off shore when they are driving to the "Okinawan village"

having the WHOLE THEATURE bursting into laughter really ruins the movie... :p

A few Youtube shorts...

Anyone else have their neighboured featured in a movie?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100129/

My dad was actually an extra for the nuclear power plant scenes.

They also used my middle school to film some of the exterior shots for the high school, though this was a number of years before I actually went to middle school.

I also note that Hollywood has not been back here since...hmmm. :p

Remember the scene in Back to the Future Part III with the street race near the very end? Note the neighborhood called "Hilldale." I used to live right there; it's in Oxnard, California.

You won't be able to recognize it now though...the street light they(Marty and Jennifer) stopped at was taken out by a small plane crash in 1992 and was never replaced.

The first catch me if you can by Stephan summers, my family had a car in the movie as well and went to his highschool

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097029/

I do live in California...

There is a warehouse that is often rented out as a studio in my neighborhood. In fact, a new science show just started there. Battlebots and I believe The Matrix both filmed there.

Another 48 Hours had that bus flip in my hometown, as well as one of the lousy Captain America movies was filmed there. A buddies house was used in Diggstown. There are others, but meh...

My neighbourhood was on Crimewatch after someone was injured in a shooting.
(Hooray for me: first reporter on the scene! Choke on that, The Sun!)

Come to think of it, the place where I used to live years ago was also on Crimewatch, when a girl I was at school with was murdered.

Plus I used to live in Burley, Leeds, very near to those suicide bombers.

Clearly I am bad luck. Give me a fiver and I'll promise not to move to your neighbourhood.

The Gold Coast, which is my dream neighbourhood has been where a few movies of late have been filmed. Also, Brisbane city was the place where 48 Shades was filmed.

My neighbourhood's local council actively encourages tv/movie filming in the region. There is a set/fliming studio down the road from where I live, and locations about the place often are used for tv or movies. I couldnt even begin to keep track.

My neighbourhood appeared in the movie "Una fredda mattina di maggio" (english release title: One cold May morning) by Vittorio Sindoni (Italy, 1990) about the killing of the italian journalist Walter Tobagi by the Brigate Rosse (italian left-wing terrorists) in 1986; he was killed near his home, less than 1 km away from my home.

as far as i know just the movie Shadowbox

Heh, what a fitting thread. I just watched The Bourne Conspiracy on TV, which was for the most part shot in Berlin. They took some liberties with the geography, too. :p Not as many as Run, Lola, Run, though.

You're clearly underestimating how fast Lola can run.

And I live kinda near where they shot the battle scenes in Braveheart.

"don't you...forget about me"

http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/DontYouForgetAboutMe_BreakfastClubFinal_NIX_1094878627.jpg

"don't you...forget about me"

http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/DontYouForgetAboutMe_BreakfastClubFinal_NIX_1094878627.jpg

Ahhhh wicked, and as a teen of the 80's it make my heart go all warm and fuzzy!

I'm getting a sense of dejavu about this topic thoug, still I'll say this again.

Yeah 'Sean of the dead' a lot of the street scenes, and the pub(which has closed down now) is just behind my block. I popped out to buy some beer, and the local shop was full of zombies. We have two recording studies over the road one a lot larger than the other(ex town hall or summit) and I though ohhh music video shoot.

It was only when I saw the film, that I started pointing at the screen and yellin, thats just outside!

At the fear of revealing too much of myself, Ferris Bueler's Day Off had a scene in a town where I grew up in.

Well, the first two Spiderman movies did feature scenes shot in Queens. Many in the area I lived. But they cut and paste the whole city so that the Garden of the Frick was across the street from St. Patricks Cathedral, The elevated 7 Train ran down Lexington Avenue, and all sorts of other digital gimickry to make the scene cinematic instead of accurate. And I loved it. That was surreal.

I'm still a little annoyed that the third one was shot in Cincinnati.

Well, the first two Spiderman movies did feature scenes shot in Queens. Many in the area I lived. But they cut and paste the whole city so that the Garden of the Frick was across the street from St. Patricks Cathedral, The elevated 7 Train ran down Lexington Avenue, and all sorts of other digital gimickry to make the scene cinematic instead of accurate. And I loved it. That was surreal.

I'm still a little annoyed that the third one was shot in Cincinnati.

Eh? When I visited NYC in June they were filming right down near Battery Park. :confused:

I just finished watching the movie 'John Q.' (I liked it.) I knew beforehand, that some filming was done in Oshawa, the city I've been living in for about 20 years.

It was slightly surreal to see that John Q's character lived on the street I was living on when I first moved to the city. The street sign was blurred, but I recognized the street, houses, etc. I had thought that they had filmed a scene in the park on the next street over, but in fact it was on the very street I lived on... possibly only a few houses down from where I used to live.

Anyone else have their neighboured featured in a movie?

With the exception of this, the rather sub-par movie 'Welcome to Mooseport' was filmed in Port Perry, where my parents were living not too long ago. I recognized all the locations in that movie, so that was slightly surreal too.

That, and I live about a 5 minute walk from The McLaughlin Estate, which is a mansion that has been featured in several movies, including X-Men, The Tuxedo, and Billy Madison.
'Hercules, Hercules, Hercules' :D

Eh? When I visited NYC in June they were filming right down near Battery Park. :confused:

Really? I read that Cincci had underbid NYC and that the decision was already made. Now :confused: confused.

Yeah 'Sean of the dead' a lot of the street scenes, and the pub(which has closed down now) is just behind my block.

It closed down after being used in one of the few good big British movies of recent years? How? Why?

You're clearly underestimating how fast Lola can run.You're right. She's clearly a teleporting marvel. Matt Damon was nothing compared to her.

"don't you...forget about me"

http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/DontYouForgetAboutMe_BreakfastClubFinal_NIX_1094878627.jpgWhee!

It closed down after being used in one of the few good big British movies of recent years? How? Why?

Ahhh probably because it was a Millwall pub. I guess the 'authorities' may have had it closed down?

last week's season premier of "The Sopranos" had parts filmed at the lake we had a place at.

yeh, Trainspotting was filmed in my neighbourhood. and i used to work in the neighbourhood that Shallow Grave was filmed in.

yeh, Trainspotting was filmed in my neighbourhood. and i used to work in the neighbourhood that Shallow Grave was filmed in.
Same here; just down from Charlotte Square? I used to work on Moray Place.

Although most of Trainspotting is filmed in Glasgow, I've lived, worked or been in most of the genuine Edinburgh locations. It always amuses me at the start of the film where Renton nearly gets run over while being chased by security guards; the wee road that the car rips down, towards the back of Waverly station, is so small that no car would travel down it at such speed.

Ahh, artistic license.

On another note, I bumped into Rebus the other day while walking back from uni. Well, the actor who plays Rebus at least, Ken Stott. He was having a fag with some roadies.

I forgot that The Lost Boys was filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, I mean it no longer is my neighborhood but it was. That bridge they hang underneath isn't that high, is only a footbridge and suspends over a creek that goes into the ocean and beach. There is no comic book store on the boardwalk, at least not when I lived there.

Yeah, a few.

Well, it depends if a city counts as a neighbourhood. If it does then it's been in several, if not then I can think of one that had my neighbourhood in it.

Aren't there a couple of shots of Finaghy in Hidden Agenda?

Personally speaking I was a background extra in Divorcing Jack, and also Eureka Street. Apparently I also appear in an episode of Silent Witness, but not having a TV I wouldn't know about that.

There was another film shot around the Holylands/Botanic recently, but I'm blanking on it right now. I think the Menagerie was used in it as some kind of extreme loyalist bar. Oh, the irony... a bit of research shows that was just for a TV program, which means I still have to work out what that other film was.

last week's season premier of "The Sopranos" had parts filmed at the lake we had a place at.

That looked like a really nice area.

Why don't you still have the house? :(

Same here; just down from Charlotte Square? I used to work on Moray Place.
and now i feel silly cuz i worked at the other end of new town (in fact, just outside new town - broughton road area)
Although most of Trainspotting is filmed in Glasgow, didn't know that, ach well, i live in the area it was set in anyway. I've lived, worked or been in most of the genuine Edinburgh locations. It always amuses me at the start of the film where Renton nearly gets run over while being chased by security guards; the wee road that the car rips down, towards the back of Waverly station, is so small that no car would travel down it at such speed.

Ahh, artistic license.

On another note, I bumped into Rebus the other day while walking back from uni. Well, the actor who plays Rebus at least, Ken Stott. He was having a fag with some roadies.

heh, i've been in edinburgh for 4 years, and been a fan of the rebus books for longer, and i've still yet to go to the oxford bar. not that there's much point, not like i'm going to bump into rebus. ha! always wanted to have a look though.

Aren't there a couple of shots of Finaghy in Hidden Agenda?

Personally speaking I was a background extra in Divorcing Jack, and also Eureka Street. Apparently I also appear in an episode of Silent Witness, but not having a TV I wouldn't know about that.

There was another film shot around the Holylands/Botanic recently, but I'm blanking on it right now. I think the Menagerie was used in it as some kind of extreme loyalist bar. Oh, the irony.

Don't know about Hidden Agenda.

Divorcing Jack is great; the book's good, and the films hilarious.

The Menagerie as a Loyalist bar is pretty absurd. Nice wee place, though. Haven't been in a while, last time would have been come charity gig c.August 2005.

A look at IMDB just now suggests there are a few films being done in Belfast recently, now, and in the future. Harland and Wolff is getting a decent bit of work, from what I've read every now and then; people seem to like using the dry dock.

A friend of mine saw some film with Heather Graham in it being filmed in University Square on Friday.

On another note, I bumped into Rebus the other day while walking back from uni. Well, the actor who plays Rebus at least, Ken Stott. He was having a fag with some roadies.

Just a pity the show could never be as brilliant as the books...

and now i feel silly cuz i worked at the other end of new town (in fact, just outside new town - broughton road area)
didn't know that, ach well, i live in the area it was set in anyway.
Don't jump to feeling silly; I was assuming that it was set around Charlotte Square from the glimpses of the outside buildings in the film. It may well have been filmed in the area it was set.

heh, i've been in edinburgh for 4 years, and been a fan of the rebus books for longer, and i've still yet to go to the oxford bar. not that there's much point, not like i'm going to bump into rebus. ha! always wanted to have a look though.
Both the Oxford and Cambridge bars are pretty good haunts; with or without Rebus. The Oxford is probably the best of the two. In fact, there's many a good pub or bar in that Young/Hill/Thistle Street area.

Just a pity the show could never be as brilliant as the books...
Quite, though Ken Stott is much better-cast Rebus than John Hannah's version. Hannah was far too young and nice to be Rebus.

The main problem with the TV adaptations is the limited amount of Scottish actors. Because they want a fairly high-profile actor to play the 'baddie', you can spot them the instant they appear on-screen.

Quite, though Ken Stott is much better-cast Rebus than John Hannah's version. Hannah was far too young and nice to be Rebus.

The main problem with the TV adaptations is the limited amount of Scottish actors. Because they want a fairly high-profile actor to play the 'baddie', you can spot them the instant they appear on-screen.

For me, the main problem is that most of the genius in the books was Rankin's descrpitions, and how he conveyed what was going on in Rebus's head. Just can't put them across on TV.

For me, the main problem is that most of the genius in the books was Rankin's descrpitions, and how he conveyed what was going on in Rebus's head. Just can't put them across on TV.
True enough. That and the grimyness of Edinburgh; it just doesn't come across.

Has Your Neigbourhood Ever Been Featured In a Movie?
Often. I'm currently living in Vancouver - it's actually distracting to see so many things I recognise in every third movie I see.

I'm sure I've recognized the pool next door to where I lived in "Europa Europa".

A friend of mine saw some film with Heather Graham in it being filmed in University Square on Friday.

Aye, they were shooting some film in the dry cleaners on Botanic next to Dougie Knights-as-was a few weeks back, come to think of it.

Yes, although it was a horrible misrepresentation of my town. There were about 4 minutes of actual Brigham City footage, and the rest were done in Arizona, or some such place that was most decidedly *not* Brigham City.

Brigham City (http://imdb.com/title/tt0268200/)

Yes, although it was a horrible misrepresentation of my town. There were about 4 minutes of actual Brigham City footage, and the rest were done in Arizona, or some such place that was most decidedly *not* Brigham City.

Brigham City (http://imdb.com/title/tt0268200/)

.

Although there is an actual place in northern Utah called Brigham City, the Brigham City depicted in the film is fictional.

Which actually was my point, in that there is a town called Brigham City, and this movie actually uses footage of it. Makes Brigham City seem more of a podunk little hole than . . . never mind. It is a podunk little hole.

The Waterboy was shot about two miles from my grandparent's house in New Jersey. :D

Braveheart was filmed about 2 miles from me. The good battle scene where the Scots show their arses to the English.

Knew some of the guys in the film too.

Kinda, Reno has been seen in a number of movies (and the university I attended stood in for the Ivy Leauges a lot during the 30's and 40's). Carson City has been fetured in a few movies (With the last John Wyane film shot just down the street from my parents house), but I have to admit that places that were supposed to be my home towns (Reno in Reno 9-11) and Carson City in Shanghi Noon were filmed nowhere near them and don't even look like them.

Unlikely in my current exact neighborhood, though I'm sure there's been more than enough movies filmed in Reno.

The Foresthill Bridge (http://www.foresthillbridge.com/photo_album.0.html.0.html), which is in the vicinity of where I lived before I moved to Reno, was the bridge that Vin Diesel jumped a car off of in the beginning of Triple X. That would be pretty cool I guess, except that people have actually committed suicide off of that particular bridge.

Oakland and San Francisco, where I grew up, have had countless movies there. I barely missed meeting Christian Slater when he was in SF filming Kuffs. He stopped into the deli I worked above. So sad... Don Johnson looks really odd up close... kind of like an overly tanned gingerbread man. I was sorely tempted to ask him for a cigarette as we drove past him, but my dad wouldn't let me. :(

The Menagerie as a Loyalist bar is pretty absurd. Nice wee place, though.

Ah... couple of weeks late, but here's the other film I was thinking of that was shot in the Menagerie - As The Beast Sleeps - http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/drama/beast/images/gall1.jpg

yes movies, "The Departed" being the most recent. Shows too with the Sopranos filming on a pretty regular basis.

The final scene where Keifer Sutherland kills Jeff Bridges in The Vanishing was shot right next to the road that I grew up on, and they filmed several other scenes around the area as well. Jeff Bridges was a very nice, down-to-earth guy, and Keifer was a bit of a wild man around town. Realize this is an isolated town of about a thousand, so pretty much everyone knows everyone.

Some movies which where wholly or partly filmed in my city:

Blues Brothers
Bride of Chucky
Canadian Bacon
The Recruit
Superman 2
The Whole Nine Yards

To my knowledge, none of it was filmed in my part of town, though.

Can anyone guess where's I'm talking about? It shouldn't be that hard.

Anyone else have their neighboured featured in a movie?


No, but I went to a church once where one of the Pastors stared in a movie. Harlem Nights with Eddie Murphy and Richard Prior. He was the big fat black guy singing in the bar. lol the church fired him almost immediatly.

Yes. After WW2 around 50 movies were shot where I live now. ;)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sweet_liberty/

none have been filmed in my town

Just a pity the show could never be as brilliant as the books...

Yep yep!

lord of the rings was filmed entirely in my sock draw.
little known fact that !