Who has had a movie filmed in their home town?

[KenWood]

Part of the new true grit was filmed in Llano county. The river crossing.

[BigRed323]

Kill the gringo

[El Forajido]

Urban Cowboy was filmed up the way at Gilleys in Pasadena

[Meatstick]

Home town movie

League City Tx
A Tigers Tail, staring C Thomas Howel and Ann Margret I be leave. I was in 5th or 5th grade when they filmed it I one of the old historic home in the old portion of league city.

[JEG8233]

I grew up in Deming NM. The films shot there were Gas, Food, and Lodging (shot a block away from my grandparents house), Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skulls, Salt of the Earth, The newest transformers, enemy way, and batman vs superman. For a small farming town it's hard to believe just how many films have filmed there.

[Patton]

We almost had Willie Nelson film a music video at our boat dock, at the end of which the dock was going to burn down.

[Pokey]

My Sweet Charlie with Patti Duke was filmed in Port Bolivar. All the rain was provided by our Local VFD.

[lovetohunt]

My home town is Enid, OK. And they filmed the movie Dillinger there.

[TexaRican]

When I was in college in Abilene they were filming some flop out at Buffalo Gap which is where my primary BBQ and beer joint was. I met or saw Clint Eastwood, Robert Duval, Jane Seymoore and Brian Dennehy.


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[BTGuard]

Children on the corn was filmed about 10 miles from my hometown... Filmed in whiting iowa

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[mrbman]

Hell Fighters was filmed around my hometown Baytown in part. The white panel truck with the 'Explosives' sign was actually the Wooster Emergency Corps ambulance.

[AntlerCollector]

Born in Houston...



List of films set in Houston
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Part or all of these movies/shows either take place, or are set, in Houston, Texas or the surrounding area:

The Houston Story (1956) - starring Gene Barry and Barbara Hale (of Perry Mason)
Hellfighters (1968) - with John Wayne
Brewster McCloud (1970) – first film to be filmed inside the Astrodome
The Getaway (1972) – filmed in Huntsville, Texas
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) – set and filmed in Houston
Sugar Hill (1974) - set and filmed in Houston
The Sugarland Express (1974) – filmed on location at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Inmate Division Jester III Unit in Sugar Land, Texas
Together Brothers (1974) - filmed in Galveston, Texas
Rollerball (1975) – set in Houston but filmed in Bavaria, Germany
Futureworld (1976) – filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities and Jones Hall
Logan's Run (1976) – filmed inside the Houston Hyatt Regency
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
Murder at the World Series (1977) – made-for-TV film
Telefon (1977) – set in Houston but filmed on a Hollywood backlot, parts of Los Angeles and inside the Hyatt Regency at 5 Embarcadero in San Francisco
FM (1978) – filmed at Greenway Plaza in Houston
The Swarm (1978)
Texas (1980–1982) – daytime soap opera, a spin-off of Another World
Urban Cowboy (1980)
Murder in Texas (1981) – made-for-TV film
Student Bodies (1981)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) – character played by Dom DeLuise was based on KTRK-TV personality Marvin Zindler
Terms of Endearment (1982)
Local Hero (1983) - filmed in Houston and Scotland
Uncommon Valor (1983) – set in Houston, filmed in California
Blood Simple (1984)
Cutter to Houston (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984) – shot in several cities around Texas, including Houston
The Trip to Bountiful (1984) – set in Houston but filmed in Dallas
Pray for Death (1985) - set and filmed in Houston
Buck James (1987–1988) – based on Dr. Red Duke
Forever Evil (1987) – filmed in Houston and Coldspring
Houston Knights (1987–1988)
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
Twins (1988) – sale of engine set in Houston
A Tiger's Tale (1988) – Rose's house was in League City
Blind Fury (1989) – filmed partially in Houston
Cohen and Tate (1989)
For All Mankind (1989) – documentary filmed partially in Houston
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Night Game (1989) – filmed in Galveston
Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990) – Malayalam movie filmed in Houston
I Come in Peace (1990)
Vietnam, Texas (1990) - filmed and set in Houston
RoboCop 2 (1990) - set in Detroit, but chiefly filmed in Houston
Rush (1991) – filmed in Houston
City of Joy (1992) – first scene is set in Houston
Sidekicks (1992)
A Taste for Killing (1992) – made-for-TV film
A Perfect World (1993) – filmed in Huntsville
The Chase (1994) – filmed in the Rice Village area and several highways around the Houston area; one scene also shot in Kemah
City of Joy (1994) - set in Houston, though not filmed there
Jason's Lyric (1994)
Reality Bites (1994)
Thea (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995) Johnson Space Center (box office #1 film in U.S.)
Powder (1995) - filmed in Sugar Land, a Houston suburb
Don't Look Back (1996) – filmed in Galveston, Texas
The Evening Star (1996) - sequel to Terms of Endearment (1982)
Independence Day (1996) – Houston is largely destroyed by a nuclear missile
SubUrbia (1996) – filmed in Houston, Set in Austin, Texas
Tin Cup (1996) – final tournament shot in Kingwood, Texas
Selena (1997) – Selena's final concert scene is set in the Astrodome, but filmed in San Antonio, Texas
Armageddon (1998) – filmed at the Johnson Space Center facilities
Dance With Me (1998)
Fifth Ward (1998) – filmed in and set in Houston's Fifth Ward
Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me (1998) – documentary filmed in Houston
Rushmore (1998) – written and directed by Houstonian Wes Anderson; filmed at his alma mater, St. John's School
Arlington Road (1999) – filmed in Pearland, a Houston suburb, and at the University of Houston
2000 WNBA Champions - Houston Comets (2000)
Mercy (2000)
Space Cowboys (2000)
Reba (2001-2007) – TV series set in Houston but filmed in Los Angeles
Pearl Harbor (2001) - San Jacinto Battlefield State Memorial Site
Texas Justice (2001-) – filmed in Houston
Houston Medical (2002)
Tarnation (2002) - contains old pictures from Houston
Animal Cops: Houston (2003)
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003) – set in Houston, but filmed in Canada
Right on Track (2003) – Disney Channel movie set in Houston, but filmed in Utah
Where's the Party Yaar? (2003) - also called Dude, Where's the Party; filmed entirely in Houston, about a nerdy Indian student who visits his hip nephew in Houston
Friday Night Lights (2004) - in the book and real life events, the final game of the Permian High School Team is played at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin not the Astrodome of Houston
Suburban Madness (2004) - details the Clara Harris story
14 Hours (2005) – made-for-TV film set in Houston, but filmed in Canada
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) – documentary about the Enron scandal
Volver (2006) – Houston is mentioned briefly several times by a woman with cancer as a place where "they cure everything there"
Fast Food Nation (2006) – filmed in several US cities, including Houston
American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007) – documentary with scenes in Houston
Towelhead (2007) – set in a Houston suburb, but filmed in Los Angeles
A Federal Case (2007) - set in Houston and Richmond, Texas
Frieda Gilroy (2008)
Crazy Heart (2009) - partly filmed in downtown Houston
Mao's Last Dancer (2009) - drama about the life of ballet dancer Li Cunxin; partly filmed in Houston at the China Garden Restaurant and JP Morgan Chase Tower downtown, Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park, and the Wortham Theater Center downtown; mostly filmed in Australia and Nanjing, China
The Open Road (2009)
Puncture (2011)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) (box office #1 film in U.S.)
Tree of Life (2011) – shot in Houston and other cities in Texas; starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt
Boyhood (2013) – directed by Richard Linklater; shot in Houston, Austin, San Marcos, Big Bend National Park, and other locations in Texas
Draft Day (2014)
Top Five (2014)
God's Not Dead (2014) - filmed in Baton Rouge, set in Houston
The Martian (2015) (box office #1 film in the U.S.)

[Southernshiver]

Wasn't a movie but an episode of one of the real life crime stories shows was filmed about the town next to where I went to high school (Mabank).

Gun Barrel City
It was about a lady murdering someone a boyfriend I think. It's been awhile since I seen it.

[El Forajido]

AntlerCollector for the win

[HoustonHunter94]

There was a baseball movie called Home Run filmed in my hometown of Okmulgee, OK. When I was in college I was actually in a movie called Possums. Got paid and everything.