Top rated films on IMDB set in each state

[Capt. Obvious]

I can't believe Rhode Island wasn't Dumb And Dumber.

[F4lconF16]

1. Totally called Oregon.

Feeling proud of myself in an entirely inconsequential way

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Cuckoo's Nest is a totally Oregonian in ways many of the other 'State Films' are not, the novel is

written by Ken Kesey, an Oregonian, written in Oregon about Oregon. The film was then shot here as well. Indigenous, organic locally harvested cinema.

[F4lconF16]

21. Yeah, studied that book in an Oregon high school.

That film is how film should be done. The big movie studios are all consolidated now as well.

[Brother Buzz]

22. Yet the image I have, and the institution Kesey knew, and used, was the psychiatric ward...

at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital in California.

[LynneSin]

2. You know the first rule of Delaware

1st RULE: You do not talk about DELAWARE
2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about DELAWARE
3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" you pay the toll in DELAWARE.
4th RULE: Only two guys to fight DELAWARE.
5th RULE: One DELAWARE at all times
6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes in DELAWARE
7th RULE: DELAWARE will go on as long as has to.
8th RULE: If this is your first night in DELAWARE, you HAVE to drink Dogfish Head Beer (no they did NOT make that Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter)


I would have thought the #1 movie set in Delaware would have been 'Dead Poets Society'. "Carpe Diem" would have been such a better motto for our state!

[Jenoch]

3. I don't know how many major motion pictures

have been set in North Dakota, but my guess is not many since there were only about three scenes in "Fargo" that were set in North Dakota.

[unc70]

4. North Carolina seems like a mistake

Top movie "set" in the state?! I can think of a lot of possibilities starting with "Blue Velvet".

[fishwax]

7. I'm not sure Blue Velvet qualifies for North Carolina

I know it was shot there, but I don't remember the town being clearly set in any specific state. Been a while since I've seen it, though.

Cape Fear, on the other hand, is explicitly in North Carolina, and is rated higher on IMDB than George Washington is. So I think you're right that they got that one wrong.

[unc70]

14. Cape Fear would be a good choice

I had forgotten Cape Fear.

[Tom Ripley]

19. Cape Fear is a good choice; I think Thunder Road also qualifies for NC

[Blue_In_AK]

5. They had to go all the way back to 1925 for Alaska's?

I'm kind of surprised it wasn't "Into the Wild."

[LynneSin]

6. Yeah but Gold Rush is an amazing film. One of my absolute favorites

Chaplin at his best. If you watch it make sure you get the original and not the reissue where he added narration. I don't like that one.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. I'll check it out.

I've never seen it, but when I looked it up, i saw the reviews were really good.

[csziggy]

8. Why does Fargo cover both North Dakota AND Minnesota?

Doesn't Minnesota rate a top rated film of its own?

Oh - Fargo is mostly set in Minnesota. And few significant films have been made in North Dakota: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_North_Dakota

Let North Dakota have Fargo. Minnesota can claim Field of Dreams or any number of good movies made there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_Minnesota

[Thor_MN]

23. Field of Dreams is in Iowa...

The farm at least. They did roadtrip to Chisholm to pick up Moonlight Graham, but that's insignificant compared to the farm, where the titular field was.

Fargo was almost entirely set in Minnesota, with only the place where Jerry meets Carl and Gaear being just over the border in Fargo, and Jerry getting arrested at the end in Bismarck. Despite the title, the move Fargo is Minnesota.

[csziggy]

29. Wikipedia lists it as being made in Minnesota

According to the link in my other post. Maybe the story is in Iowa but it was made in Minnesota?

[Thor_MN]

30. A portion was set in Minnesota, but filmed in Illinois.

Your link is for movies Set in states. For some reason, Field of Dreams is not listed on the page for Massachusetts, but the scenes in Boston were at least as significant as the scenes in Chisholm.

IMDB has it filmed in various places in Iowa and Boston. The road trip to Chisholm did look like Northern Minnesota, but could have been just about anywhere. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097351/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt

The movie is mostly set in Iowa.

Wikipedia lists it as being filmed in Iowa, Boston and Galena, Illinois as Chisholm.

"Primary shot locations were in Dubuque County, Iowa; a farm near Dyersville was used for the Kinsella home; an empty warehouse in Dubuque was used to build various interior sets. Galena, Illinois served as Moonlight Graham's Chisholm, Minnesota.[5] One week was spent on location shots in Boston, most notably Fenway Park.[7]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_Dreams

[flying-skeleton]

9. shocking that TX isn't Horror Story

[handmade34]

11. I would have chosen Ethan Frome

actually filmed in Vermont just a couple miles from me...

also "Where the Rivers Flow North" was set (and Filmed) near me and I was able to watch much of the production

also filmed in Peacham "The Spitfire Grill"

"White Christmas" must be the best known that is set in Vermont

Many good movies are set in Vermont and quite a number of good ones were filmed in Vermont...
BeetleJuice
Funny Farm
The Trouble With Harry (1955)

[CBGLuthier]

12. Hawaii is wrong. it should be From Here to Eternity which gets 7.8 on imdb.

Tora! Tora! Tora! only gets a 7.5


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/?ref_=nv_sr_1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066473/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Also, Lonesome Dove was a tv miniseries, not a film.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. "True Grit" was supposed to be set in Arkansas

Specifically, Fort Smith and Yell County.

For Oklahoma, I would suggest "Silkwood".

Also, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was set in Texas, while "For a Few Dollars More" starts out in New Mexico, wends its way into El Paso, and finally ends up in Mexico.

[Thor_MN]

24. Most of the movie was in "Indian Territory" i.e. Oklahoma.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

31. I agree with Silkwood for OK

However, it didn't make the IMDB top 250.
I'm not sure if that's part of the criteria.

[Frank Cannon]

15. My Own Private Idaho? Seriously?

Napoleon Dynamite should be on that map instead.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. I agree.

It's not only set in but indigenous to Idaho. Plus it is just so sweet.

[Tom Ripley]

18. Georgia should be Deliverance, not that turgid mythmaking piece of shit GWTW

[Tom Ripley]

20. FMJ is a good movie, but 2000 Maniacs is more representative of South Carolina

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. They forgot Nebraska. :)

That was actually a pretty good movie. Low key, but good.

[Tom Ripley]

28. I believe Payne's Election is also set in Nebraska

A great movie

[bigwillq]

26. Bringing up Baby?? Really, CT?

Sad.

[Capt. Obvious]

27. It should be Beetlejuice

[KamaAina]

32. Pulp Fiction for California?!

Aren't, like, nine out of every ten movies set in California?!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

35. Chinatown or The Big Sleep would have been better imo

[Tom Ripley]

36. or East of Eden or Sunset Boulevard

[KamaAina]

33. No Field of Dreams for Iowa?

Or, perish the thought, Bridges of Madison County?

[KamaAina]

34. No Trip to Bountiful for Utah?

[KamaAina]

37. No Matewan for West Virginia?!