Name five movies you like that were set in Chicago

[Missy Vixen]

We saw one of my favorites earlier this evening. I then realized that several of our favorites are set in Chicago.

High Fidelity
The Blues Brothers
While You Were Sleeping
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Chicago (duhhhhh)

I know I'll think of others later...

Julie

[KitchenWitch]

1. Blues Brothers

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Return to Me (I think it went straight to DVD - stars David Duchovny and Minnie Driver)
The Fugitive
Risky Business

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Julie.....

When Harry met Sally....wasn't that set in Chicago? I know parts of it were filmed there.....

:shrug:

Can't think of any others, though....

[KitchenWitch]

3. Parts, but mostly in NYC!

:hi:

[Missy Vixen]

5. I LOVE that movie!

My favorite scene is Carrie Fisher's character telling Bruno Kirby's character, "Don't make me go out there again." :scared: I saw it as a poor single girl and cried my eyes out ;-).

Julie

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. MY favorite scene......

"I'll have...whatever she's having..."

Oh I was howling! :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

9. Mine was the New Years eve party where Meg Ryan tells

Billy Crystal she hates him, and goes into this long rant.

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4. Risky Business

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6. National Lampoon's Vacation (starts out in Chicago)

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8. Wierd Science (?)

I'm pretty sure most John Hughes movies were set in Chicago/or in the near suburbs.

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10. Home Alone

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11. Breakfast Club was supposedly set in a Chicago suburb

[BlueIris]

12. Backdraft, The Fugitive,

um...back in a minute...

[BlueIris]

15. On the Line (see this ASAP if you haven't), Save the Last Dance,

and Road to Perdition. And there's one other I LOVE...I CANNOT think of it to save my life. It's excellent, but I am blanking on the title. I will return if I can remember it.

[BlueIris]

17. Love Jones. See this film now, everyone.

Otherwise, I will have to come and beat all of you up. On principle.

[LSK]

13. My Best Friends Wedding, My Big Fat Greek Wedding

[Missy Vixen]

16. I forgot "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"!

I love that movie, too! I was just quoting the line about the "hormonies" the other day to one of my friends, and we were howling.

What a great movie.

Julie

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14. Here is a HUGE list of films set in Chicago according to Wikipedia...

I don't think this is complete but it's a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fiction_set_in_Chicago

About Last Night (1986)
Above the Law (1988)
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Ali (2001)
Backdraft (1991)
Bad Boys (1983)
Barbershop (2002)
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Big Shots (1987)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
The Break Up (2006)
Candyman (1992)- based on a book originally set in London
Chain Reaction (1996)
Cheaper By The Dozen (2003)
Chicago (1927)
Chicago (2002)
Child's Play (1988)
Child's Play 2 (1990)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
Danger Lights (1930) (partly in Chicago)
Derailed (2005)
Dragonfly (2001)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Flatliners (1990)
The Fugitive (1993)
Go Fish (1994)
Hardball (2001)
Harry and Tonto (1973)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) (partly in Chicago)
High Fidelity (2000) - based on a book originally set in London
Home Alone (1990)
Home Alone 2 (1992) (partly in Chicago)
How the West was Won (1963)
The Hunter (1980) (partly in Chicago)
I Love Trouble (1994)
I, Robot (2004)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Judgment Night (1993)
Mean Girls (2004)
Medium Cool (1969)
Mercury Rising (1998)
Michael (1996) (partly in Chicago)
Mickey One (1965)
Midnight Run (1988) (partly in Chicago)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) (partly in Chicago)
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Natural Born Killers (1994) (partly in Chicago)
The Negotiator (1998)
North By Northwest (1959)
Only the Lonely (1991) -- with John Candy
On the Line (2001)
Poltergeist III (1988)
Primal Fear (1996)
Raisin in the Sun (1961)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Red Heat (1988)
The Relic (1997)
Risky Business (1983)
Road to Perdition (2001)
Running Scared (1986)
Save the Last Dance (2001)
Shall We Dance (2004)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Silver Streak (1976) (partly in Chicago)
Sleepless In Seattle (1993) (partly in Chicago)
Slim (1937) (partly in Chicago)
Somewhere In Time (1980) (partly in Chicago)
Soul Food (1997)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Stolen Summer (2001)
The Sting (1973)
Surviving Christmas (2003)
The Untouchables (1987)
Wayne's World (1992) (partly in Chicago)
The Weather Man (2005)
What Women Want (2000)
When Harry Met Sally (1989) (partly in Chicago)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Wicker Park (2004)
Wildcats (1986)

[KitchenWitch]

18. Oh Goddess, I forgot about Wildcats

I love that movie.

[Common Sense Party]

19. Continental Divide.

Part of the movie, anyway.

Most of the other ones have already been mentioned.

Uncle Buck.

Wayne's World was pretty close to Chicago. Does that count?