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Mar 28, 2024 · 1. Stand by Me. Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman. 128 votes. Released: 1986. Directed by: Rob Reiner. Stand by Me, a nostalgic coming-of-age tale set amidst the serenity of a small Oregon town, brings to life Stephen King's novella about four adventurous friends on an unforgettable journey.
- Small American Towns
- Salem, MA – Hocus Pocus
- Punxsutawney, PA – Groundhog Day
- Deerfield/Delray Beach, FL – in Her Shoes
- Madison, PA – My Girl
- Rockville Centre, NY – Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
- Bodega Bay, CA – The Birds
- Astoria, Or – The Goonies
- Newtown, PA – Signs
- Sequoyah, OK – Where The Heart Is
Small towns pepper the entire landscape of the United States. Some are located miles away from civilization while others sit just outside large cities. Their layouts range from rural farmlands in the plains to suburban communities by the sea. Some are stereotypically backward while others are more progressive. They can be poor and rundown while oth...
Salem, Massachusetts dug its roots deep into American history way before Disney decided to make their live action comedy about three witches who are raised from the dead on Halloween night and wreak havoc on this old New England town. However, this film twists that history in order to create a fun fantasy film in which the town serves as a kind of ...
Punxsutawney gets its 15 minutes of fame every February 2nd as the town gathers together to commemorate its annual Groundhog Day celebration. But it’s the 1993 comedy Groundhog Dayabout a Pittsburgh weatherman named Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) who gets caught in a time loop and is forced to relive the same day over and over again in this s...
The state of Florida is known for two things: tourism and retirement communities. These retirement communities serve as their own little small towns, flat roads with ground floor apartments and little stores and businesses where you can run all of your errands nearby. The film In Her Shoespaints the retirement community where sisters Rose and Maggi...
Many classic summer movies take place in picturesque suburban towns.My Girlis one of those classic summer movies about a young girl growing up just outside of Philadelphia in the 1970’s (though the movie was filmed in Bartow, FL). When you’re the daughter of the town’s undertaker, you get to know everybody because eventually, they all end up being ...
When Joel Barish meets Clementine Kruczynski on a train presumably for the first time in the opening sequence of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, she asks where he is going. He replies, "Rockville Centre,” a little town southeast of Queens. Clementine too lives there, a quiet town that is just a short drive from Montauk where the two actually...
Shooting movies on sets allows filmmakers to build their own worlds and be able to control everything from the look to the weather to the time of day. However, Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, The Birds, is set in a real location, Bodega Bay, a small town on the California coast which becomes a prison for the film’s heroine, Melanie Daniels. Known for p...
Many of the great small towns on this list are situated on or near large bodies of water. Astoria, Oregon is a west coast town that has served as the setting of many films over the years. Its most famous, though, has to be the 80’s classic, The Goonies. This is the movie that made children all over the country go looking for buried treasure in thei...
Alien invasion movies tend to use big cities in order to show the devastation that these advanced beings can inflict on planet Earth. Smaller locations are typically reserved for friendly alien movies. Signs is different in that it draws from Hitchcock’s The Birdsto show how one family handles a hostile alien attack. Most of the movie is set on the...
Many southern and Midwestern film towns didn’t make the cut on this list because of its dingy landscape or racist undertones, but Sequoyah, OK, the accidental setting for the book turned movie, Where The Heart Is, feels like the south the way it should be. The people are friendly, there is no judgment regarding people’s vices and life choices, and ...
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- Promised Land (2012) An environmentalist and a salesman arrive in the struggling rural town of McKinley, hoping to purchase drilling rights from the residents.
- Fargo (1996) The Coen brothers bring a story set against the snowy backdrop of Fargo, North Dakota. The film follows the story of Jerry, a car salesman who hires two criminals to kidnap his wife to extort money from her wealthy father.
- Let It Snow (2019) Let It Snow is a heartwarming romantic comedy that follows a gathering winter storm swirling around Grace, who, despite being new to town, finds herself entangled in a romantic web involving her high school friends.
- Halloween (1978) On a dark Halloween night in 1963, young Michael Myers brutally kills his teenage sister. Fifteen years later, he escaped from an asylum and returned to his little Illinois hometown to continue his killing spree and spread terror across town.
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- ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ The movie is set in the fictional town of Endora, Iowa, and captures the spirit of living in a small Midwestern town perfectly.
- ‘U Turn’ The reason why I personally miss the 90s in cinema is partially because it was the golden age for movies like this Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez starrer.
- ‘Nebraska’ An homage to the Italian Neorealist movement, this 2013 Oscar-nominated film accomplishes the hard task of showing the bleak reality of rural middle America through an unsentimental, yet very humane lens. ‘
- ‘Manchester By The Sea’ There is no doubt that by filming this Oscar-winning drama, Kenneth Lonergan created one of the rawest films of the decade. The film depicts the pain of loss and family tragedy in the same straightforward, blunt way as its protagonist Lee Chandler tries to deal with his past, deliberately avoiding being stylish or glossy as it offers us an unapologetic view of trauma and grief communicated through the setting of that grey and cold coastal New England settlement that became world-famous soon after the film was released.
Apr 3, 2023 · They can make a horror movie eerier, a comedy funnier, and a drama deeper. Many films have created their own small towns in order to best serve their story with their own fictional history, landscape, and population. Below are 10 of my favorite fictional small U.S. towns in movies.
Nebraska: Alexander Payne’s lovely, black-and-white dramedy stars Will Forte as a beleaguered son who takes his dottering father back to the old man’s home town en route to picking up a ...
Aug 11, 2023 · But, in the world of cinema, looks can be deceiving. In this blog post, we’ll count down the best movies about small towns that explore the buried mysteries and surprising revelations about small town life. 10 Movies Set in Small Towns. 1. Last Night in Rozzie
