Comments on: So I wanna live in movies...

Question: So I wanna live in movies...

nathan_teske — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:54:25 -0800

I'm trying to compile a list of movies set in Minneapolis/St. Paul...

So far I've gotten the easy ones -- "Purple Rain", "Fargo", "Feeling Minnesota", the horrid Mighty Ducks movies, etc. What am I missing?

By: mcwetboy

mcwetboy — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:01:29 -0800

Little Big League.

By: FreezBoy

FreezBoy — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:08:50 -0800

Movie-locations.com lets you search by location, although they only list 4 movies for Minnesota - Airport, A Simple Plan, Fargo and Untamed Heart.
The Minnesota film board also lists movies shot there, but doesn't specify by city.

By: FreezBoy

FreezBoy — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:13:34 -0800

And here is the IMDB's list of movies/tv shows shot in Minneapolis, although some seem a little odd, like Real World.

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:15:45 -0800

It wasn't set there, but for what it's worth, Mallrats was filmed largely in Eden Prairie.

By: GaelFC

GaelFC — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:42:43 -0800

Are you looking for films that shot there or whose location was supposedly MSP?

When I worked at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine we did a lengthy list of these in the Made in Minnesota issue, back in the 1990s.

The original "Airport" was shot at the MSP Airport, I believe.

"Drop Dead Fred" was shot locally.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:44:39 -0800

Jingle fucking All the Way, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi.

Beautiful Girls was filmed in Stillwater, but I'm not sure if they actually set the movie there.

There's an X-Files episode that supposed to be here but is hilariously not (like, Scully drives through wooded countryside to get from the airport to Minneapolis).

By: wsg

wsg — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:49:25 -0800

Purple Rain.

By: wsg

wsg — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:49:59 -0800

oops...nevermind...

By: milkrate

milkrate — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:54:31 -0800

(Beautiful Girls was set in a fictional Massachusetts town)

"Drop Dead Gorgeous", "Grumpy Old Men"

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:04:41 -0800

One of my faves, "Patty Rocks" was filmed partially there.

By: gimonca

gimonca — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:13:31 -0800

There's an X-Files episode that supposed to be here but is hilariously not (like, Scully drives through wooded countryside to get from the airport to Minneapolis).

Heh. I remember an X-Files episode with a train stopped in rural Iowa...that looked oddly like it was on a forested mountainside near Vancouver....

The episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" was at least partially set in the Twin Cities...the Clyde Bruckman character (Peter Boyle) was a resident of Saint Paul.

By: makonan

makonan — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:20:21 -0800

The Toilers and the Wayfarers.

By: omnidrew

omnidrew — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:00:10 -0800

Bound and Gagged: A Love Story

By: GaelFC

GaelFC — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:35:19 -0800

"That Was Then, This Is Now" was shot in MSP, but I believe all SE Hinton novels are set in Oklahoma or something.

"Untamed Heart" was also filmed in MSP, because I remember I tried to walk to City Center for lunch that day and it was practically shut down for filming.

By: belladonna

belladonna — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:10:38 -0800

Joe Somebody was filmed in the cities. I remember that they spent about a week filming at the corner of Western & Selby in St. Paul (across from W.A. Frost).