Driving Miss Daisy (Atlanta). It reminds me a LOT of my childhood (even though most of it is set before I was born, obviously), and was shot around an area where I used to live. I recognize almost all of the settings in that movie, and could take you to the ones that still exist.

I've never seen Sharkey's Machine, but I'm told it captures a lot of how Atlanta looked in the late 70s.

Not a movie, but The Wire was filmed a lot around the neighborhood I lived.

yeah, I lived in a pretty sketchy 'hood.

Have you ever seen 'Bridge to Nowhere,' octo? I've checked it out from the library twice now, but never gotten around to watching it. (It's set in PGH, but you might've figured that.)

No, I remember them filming that in my current neighborhood last year but then it went straight to DVD.

It's actually hard to drive around the city right now without running into a film crew; Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Russel Crowe are are in town right now making three different movies. I didn't think that we had that many catering trucks.

Love Wonder Boys. Also, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which I understand is being made into a movie. Favorite for locale is The Squid & the Whale filmed in Park Slope.

Mysteries was made into a move about three years ago but was never released either and got dumped to DVD. The reviews of it are pretty bad.

One of the stories in Creepshow was filmed on-campus at CMU in the 'Burgh. I believe it was The Crate.

Bullitt is the quintessential San Francisco movie. That, and Vertigo. I recently watched Zodiac as well, and it digitally recreates/restores some parts of the city back to what they were in the '70s so it was rather entertaining for that part of it alone.

But Wonder Boys is much better for the CMU/Pittsburgh scenes, mostly since it doesn't take place at night.

I also love Wonder Boys, both book and movie.

The Proposal was pretty bad, but they filmed a lot of it in Rockport, MA, a town I love (the parts they claimed were in the downtown area of whatever Alaskan town he was from- that was Rockport). Including a scene where Sandra Bullock sits in the exact spot (no joke, she's there at the desk looking out the same windows I looked out of) I worked at for 2 years, which was AWESOME.

Las Vegas? Where to begin...

Driving Miss Daisy - I shopped at the same Piggly Wiggly, except in real life it is Sevananda Natural Foods. I can't remember if the movie hid the payphone in the parking lot, but I used that a lot.

Heartbreak Ridge - When Clint Eastwood walks toward the outdoor tank museum at Camp Pendleton, the supply hut where I worked is in the background up the hill.

There are so many good Chicago movies, so I have an unfair advantage. A couple of my favorites for just showing off Chicago are The Untouchables and The Fugitive. There's also Running Scared and The Blues Brothers (which is deliberately offbeat so it isn't quite in the same vein). Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are in a completely different genre, using Chicago to be someplace fantastical, and are also quite fun.

I also lived behind the Dawes House^ in Evanston when my dad ran the historical society there. It was used in Road to Perdition and a few other movies.

I've also been to the Jailhouse Restaurant in Woodstock, on the square where they filmed a lot of Groundhog Day.

Oh, and I lived on the upper Upper West Side and used to occasionally eat at Tom's Restaurant^ (from the song, and Seinfeld).

Lessee. I'm preparing to watch World Trade Center, where I used to come up from PATH every day back in '86, and I love almost any movie or good photo of Grand Central Terminal, where I ended my commute most of the time I was in New York. I would have to say that my favorite New York movie is Broadway Danny Rose.

Driving Miss Daisy - I shopped at the same Piggly Wiggly, except in real life it is Sevananda Natural Foods.

Was. Sevananda went under some time ago, unfortunately. :( It's a skateboard shop now.

The movie Manhattan I'm fondest of is Whit Stillman's Metropolitan.

The forgotten DeNiro/Streep stinker Falling In Love confirmed the suspicion of this Long Island Rail Road passenger that, unlike steam locomotives, there is no poetry in commuter railroads.

"skateboard shop" - I can't say I'm surprised.

I missed it? Gotta rent Mysteries even if it sucks.

Octothorpe, did you see Smart People? That's set in Pittsburgh as well. We watch all Pittsburgh movies, because it makes my husband positively giddy to see on screen the town that he grew up in and loves so much. Additionally, the new television series, Three Rivers is also set in Pittsburgh, and although I don't watch television much, I checked this one out on Hulu, and it was awesome for its opening sequence alone.

Although it's not technically my hometown, but the place that I lived the longest in my life, is São Paulo, and I love how the city looks in the movie Manda Bala (Send a Bullet). The movie itself isn't so great, but when I see the scenes of S. Paulo, I get all happy and nostalgic.

I tried to watch Smart People a few weeks ago and gave up about 1/2 way through, it was pretty badly written. The main characters live on the same street that I lived on during the 90s so that was cool but the movie was bad.

The (horrible) remake of Alfie was filmed on my block. I got $1K to let them shine a light out of my window.