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Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:33 am**

I was looking up movies, and found a place to search for movies by location.

Here's some of the stuff shot in my home town, a tiny suburb called La Cresecenta.

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star was shot at my Jr. High, which doesn't make much sense to me because Clark Community Center (formerly Clark Jr. High) didn't have school and was physically similiar (same blueprints!) to Rosemont.

The list only seems to include big budget stuff, because there was a lot more shot there. ChiPs used to be in my area all the time, though that was TV.

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:49 pm**

Hmm...looks like Childen of the Corn 4 was taped all around my hometown. I know another movie was filmed there about a plane crash in my hometown, but maybe that was just a made for tv movie, now that I think about it.

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:59 pm**

Patch Adams and Bull Durham were about as big as it got here.

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:46 pm**

They filmed the all the Dawsons Creek epsidoes in Wilmington, NC.

I managed to see pretty much every member of the cast when going out to eat in the nicer downtown restaraunts on the waterfront.

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Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:40 pm**

Selena (of course), Pearl Harbor, The Legend of Billie Jean (OMG the 80s) and a few episodes of Cops.

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:23 am**

Memphis has a LOT.

And it's not just big budget stuff...
"Black Heart (1994)"
"Dog Me: Potluck (2003)"
"Night of the Snakehead Fish (2003)"

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:50 am**

Steel Magnolias was set in, and partially filmed in, a town not far from where I grew up.

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:35 pm**

Mempis: Castaway

or whatever that tom hanks flick was

Posted: **Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:57 am**

thibodeaux wrote:Steel Magnolias was set in, and partially filmed in, a town not far from where I grew up.

Oh my god, I LOVE Steel Magnolias! One of my absolute faves!

I needs to go and find that tape and watch it.

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