Question posed with the full understanding that many of you live in places where there are no movies that take place there

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  7. No movie has taken place out here.

    But there was a TV pilot shot here called “The High Country” (“THC”, get it??)

    I haven’t been able to track down a copy, but my understanding is that it is a hella accurate depiction.

  11. Only one well-known movie takes place in my city, and I really don’t think we live in a madhouse. *One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.*

  12. No movies I know of, but one show. “13 reasons why”

    It’s spot on. I’m here for college and our campus suicide rate is through the roof, like multiple attempts per month for a campus of 700 students. Also sexual assault/harassment is rampant.

  13. Rocky, I live a few blocks from the art museum, we used to play on the steps as kids. When it snowed we sledded down the steps. In the summer we swam in the fountains at the bottom of the steps. Behind the art museum is the Schuylkill river where we fished, good times.

  15. It’s not a movie, but Dexter: New Blood was based on the Cattaraugus & Allegheny Reservations of the Seneca Nation, despite a fake town name in the show. I’m guessing on my geographic Native reservations here but they worked with the Seneca Nation & Showtime donated to the Museum in Salamanca (Allegheny Reservation.)

    The way they depict the geography (Southern Tier NY is hilly), the small town nature (Salamanca, Gowanda, Irving, etc,. are all small), and the divide between the Seneca Nation & the State is accurate despite it not being pertinent to the plot. (The State & the Nation don’t see eye to eye that much.) They also didn’t butcher the Seneca language. They also got Seneca heritage/ancestry correct as it matters to which parent is Seneca to be considered Seneca themselves (I can’t recall if it’s the mother or father.)

    Spoiler: >!The killing of the white deer was also heavily related to Seneca culture. The white deer is a sacred animal to the Seneca Nation. Killing such a sacred animal is a heinous offense and not just legally but spiritually. Further, only Seneca people have the right to hunt on Seneca land, and it was a non-Native who killed a sacred animal on Native land.!<

    Disclosure: I’m not Native and don’t know anyone personally who is. I’m from WNY so I’m familiar with the Seneca Nation etc,. and my SO grew up on Seneca territory, we live close to it. There may be inaccuracies on Seneca culture.

  16. They’ve never made a movie that takes place in my city. I don’t even know what that would be about, tbh.

    I think maybe we were mentioned in an episode of Dateline once?

  18. Plenty of TV shows take place in my town if that counts. Ever heard of Take a Hike Mike or Man on the Street?

    Hastings community Television is great. I do freelance camera operation for them for sports games.

  20. Not currently living there, but either The Blues Brothers or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off are the quintessential Chicago movies for me. Home Alone is a good holiday movie, not a Chicago movie.

  21. Up in the Air was filmed in St. Louis because the director found it empty and depressing. I feel that.

  22. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie set in Tucson but that episode of Family Guy when they try to dumb Peter down again so they send him to Tucson. That seems to reflect what it’s like to live there.

  24. Rain man in and around Cincinnati. Did pretty well getting the old architecture and the rolling forests and valleys of the surrounding area.

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