The best {name of city} movie is ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The best Houston movie is either "Brewster McCloud" or "The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training."

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[MiHale]

1. Best Hale, Michigan movie...

Not done yet.

[First Speaker]

2. OK--a few choices of mine...

Philadelphia: The Sixth Sense

Chicago: The Fugitive

Washington: Lincoln

Boston: Patriot's Day

New Orleans: Suddenly, Last Summer

San Francisco: Bullitt

Los Angeles: The Big Sleep

New York: The original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Chicago: I agree. I like "The Blues Brothers," which got a lot of votes, but

"The Fugitive" is much more about Chicago than "The Blues Brothers" is.

New York City: well, there could be some other contenders for that one.

Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania: other than having been filmed mostly in a suburb of Chicago ...

[First Speaker]

4. There are a lot of great NYC films...

...off the top of my head--Madigan, The Naked City, Dog Day Afternoon, Manhattan, Serpico, Prince of the City, Night Falls on Manhattan, etc, etc. I chose "Pelham" because of its nice, nitty-gritty look at what was, at the time, regarded as an urban hell, and the nice little callous disregard for public safety on the part of everybody--villains and "heroes".

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Even nittier grittier: "On the Waterfront," "The French Connection." Maybe? NT

I know; how can you choose just one?

[Walleye]

6. Los Angeles-"The Two Jakes", "L.A. confidential "

New Orleans – I liked “Suddenly Last Summer” but also “Walk on the Wild Side”

[EYESORE 9001]

7. Cleveland

Kill the Irishman

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. For Johnstown, Pennsylvania, I'd go with "All the Right Moves," but with "Slap Shot" as a contender.

All the Right Moves

Slap Shot

[Binkie The Clown]

9. Best Cottage Grove, OR movie is Animal House. nt

[Sneederbunk]

10. Only the parade was filmed in Cottage Grove.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. I've been to the Dexter Lake Club.

Source: https://www.eugenecascadescoast.org/history-culture/film-history/animal-house/

[Binkie The Clown]

13. OK then. Best Eugene/Cottage Grove movie. nt

[rownesheck]

11. Sorry Donny Ferguson,

the best Houston movie is Reality Bites.

[FakeNoose]

14. The best Pittsburgh movies are Wonder Boys, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower

My sentimental favorite: Flashdance (not for artistic reasons, the movie is crap.)

Big disappointment: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood because so little of Pittsburgh is shown that it could have been shot on a set in LA. Loved the movie, loved Tom Hanks, but there's almost nothing about Pittsburgh in it.

[Tanuki]

15. Best Matewan, West Virginia movie is.....

Matewan!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. Today I was surprised to discover that Jake Tapper is ever so slightly thin-skinned.

Today I was surprised to discover that Jake Tapper is ever so slightly thin-skinned.

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[Rastapopoulos]

17. Boston: Friends of Eddie Coyle

With the great Robert Mitchum

[smirkymonkey]

18. Best NYC Movie:

"When Harry Met Sally".

I know I am going to get a lot of crap for this, but it was such a great tribute to the best of NY. You will only think so if you are the sentimental type.

[Shrek]

19. Mos Eisley: Star Wars