Ever been to a place where a movie was set?

Back in the mid 80s I got a chance to see the set of 'Saturday Night Live' in the NBC building in NYC, after hours from the audience seats.

I was surprised at how very small it was. It was basically a square set dived into four "rooms" by curtain-like walls. The entire set looked to be about 20 feet by 20 feet square. It's the amazing the ability of careful camera work to make it all seem much larger than it was when viewing on TV.

I grew up in Key West, Florida and the Bond movie “License to Kill” was partly filmed there a year or so after my family moved away. The church where Bond and Felix parachute down to was the Catholic church, St. Mary’s, that I went to and on the same property as the Catholic high school I went to, Mary Immaculate.

Also some scenes from the Billy Crystal/Gregory Hines movie “Running Scared” (1986) was filmed in Key West.

A few have been set in my town. It's always...

"Right guys, got some inside info. This film is set in our town.."

"Holy shit. You serious?"

"Yup!"

Watches and sees 2 seconds of a cafe window.

"Was that it?"

"Sigh........yeah"

I lived in Marquette Michigan where Anatomy of a Murder was filmed.

My wife and vacationed on Mackinac Island where Somewhere in Time was filmed.

I was at County Stadium in Milwaukee Wisconsin where parts of Major League were filmed.

I stood in front of the Goonies house in Astoria Oregon.

Yes, many times in Yonkers, The Bronx and Manhattan…They shoot movies here constantly, they shut down my neighborhood to film ‘Loverboy’ which was a shit-bore of a movie directed by Kevin Bacon, it was cool, I called out sick at work to watch them film and Kyra Sedgwick pointed at my road-side garden and mentioned my birdbath, that line is in the movie…They filmed indoor scenes at a neighbor’s house, that was pretty cool too

Kevin Bacon was all business but quite polite

These movie productions sweep and ‘pretty up’ the locations here because a lot of New Yorkers are disgusting slobs and there is litter everywhere…When you see working class New York scenes in a movie figure about 40 guys were busy picking up dog shit, rubbish and painting over graffiti before the shoot…A lot of New Yorkers are sloppy pigs

Dolores Claiborne - Nova Scotia

The scene in Parenthood when Steve Martin’s character has a dream that his son grows up to be a sniper was filmed at Century Tower on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville. It was shot during Spring Break in 1989 and I was on campus at the time but I didn’t know about it until after the fact.

Related is when they were filming scenes in Orlando the studio rented the front lawn of the aunt of a fellow student I knew to park Steve Martin’s trailer. He had a picture of him with Steve Martin.

I think the movie is supposed to be set in Missouri though.