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The best movie made in Georgia is …
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This fall marks a convergence of sorts in old and new made-in-Georgia movies. Just a couple of weeks ago came the debut of a 35th anniversary DVD edition of “Deliverance.” On Friday, Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild,” filmed partially in Atlanta and on the Emory University campus, opens in theaters here. That’s followed Oct. 12 by the national debut of Tyler Perry’s “Why Did I Get Married?”
Since the early 1970s more than 200 big-screen films have been made or partially made in Georgia.
Among my favorites:
“Deliverance.” Not just the best Burt Reynolds movie made here, but the best Burt Reynolds movie period.
“Driving Miss Daisy.” It won Oscar’s best picture.
“Glory.” This is the film in which Denzel Washington proved he would be a formidable movie actor.
“School Daze.” Spike Lee’s captivating homegrown homage to college.
“Remember the Titans.” A solid, memorable football movie.
“Manhunter.” Just a surprisingly good movie with Hannibal Lecter before “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Among other movies made in our state: “Sharky’s Machine,” “Smokey and the Bandit,” “The Longest Yard,” “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “We Are Marshall,” “Stomp the Yard,” “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Drumline.”
What’s your favorite made-in-Georgia movie? Will you go see “Why Did I Get Married?” or “Into the Wild”?
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By Dan Matthews
October 2, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this
I am partial to “Remember the Titans” because I was lucky enough to be in an extra role next to Denzel Washington looking out of Druid Hills High School window.
By KEITH
October 2, 2007 9:26 AM | Link to this
WHO CARE BOUT ALL DAT MOOVEE CRAP WHUT WE NEEDS IS LESS OB DE WITE MAN LAW AN BE GIT VICK BACK ON DE FEELD AN DE FALCOMS BE WINNIN SOME MO AN VICK GWAN BE GOT DAT RING NOE WHUT IM SAYIN
By Shannon
October 2, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this
Best made in Georgia movie, IMO, is Driving Miss Daisy.
My personal favorite made in Georgia movies include Driving Miss Daisy, Sweet Home Alabama, Fried Green Tomatoes, Forrest Gump, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil and We Are Marshall.
By V for Vendetta
October 2, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this
I can’t believe you left Road Trip off of the list!
I was in Athens when it was being filmed. How that movie didn’t win an “Oscar” I’ll never know …
By Jenny
October 2, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this
Forrest Gump.
By Fred
October 2, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this
Nobody’s bringing up any comedies, so I have to nominate ‘My Cousin Vinny’ - absolutely a classic.
By Sharon
October 2, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this
You forgot My Cousin Vinny!
By Bob
October 2, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this
Sharky’s Machine - hands down
By Atlanta Pearl Girl
October 2, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this
I’m going to have to say a tie between “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Remember the Titans”.
What about Fried Green Tomatoes????Shot in the wonderful little town of Juliette Georgia???The Whistle Stop Cafe is a must!!!! (only about 40 minutes south of Atlanta…a great day trip on a weekend.)
Atlanta Pearl Girl
By Jimmy Etheridge
October 2, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this
I can’t believe none of you remember “The Legend of Blood Mountain” with Bestoink Dooley.
By Bald Man
October 2, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this
Maybe we should have two, Best in Georgia(My Cousin V) and Best in Atlanta(Driving Miss D).
By julie
October 2, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this
Fried Green Tomatoes-secret’s in the sauce!
By Pat R.
October 2, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this
You forgot “As Summers Die (1986) filmed in Valdosta, GA. The list of movies made in our state is endless!!!
By GrupGirl
October 2, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this
Scream 2
By So Many!
October 2, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this
Forrest Gump, Driving Mrs. Daisy & My Cousin Vinny - Are my favorites - but you also forgot Smokey & the Bandit…
By fall07
October 2, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this
Definitely School Daze…
By mary
October 2, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this
Everyone forgot one—“My Cousin Vinny” shot in beautiful downtown Monticello GA. The town masqueraded as a Alabama or Mississippi town from the 1950’s..and they didn’t have to change a thing!
By Sheneeka Shinaynay
October 2, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this
Has to be a tie between “The Visitor” and “JC”
By SharonH
October 2, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this
These are definitely too close to call: a four-way tie between Remember the Titans, Driving Miss Daisy, Forrest Gump, and Fried Green Tomatoes. Honorable mention to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and My Cousin Vinny.
By I am not Linda Burns
October 2, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this
How could you forget The Signal, this year’s breakout hit from Pop Films and Magnolia Films!
By Antwan
October 2, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this
Even my dead grandma loved “six pack” and “the longest yard”. I love them because of her.
By Ron
October 2, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this
I am fairly certain that MosQuito Coast was also a Ga. Movie maybe filmed at Berry College in Rome. However, several of those mentioned are some of my favorites I would have to vote for My Cousin Vinny.
By Charles Henry Atkinson
October 2, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this
Forrest Gump, Driving Mrs. Daisy, Coward of the County, Sweet Home Alabama & Paris Trout (the last three were filmed in Crawfordville, GA)
By the way, I am not Chris Tsambis
October 2, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this
I’m fairly certain that A.J. Bowen’s Gnome 3.0 was not only shot in Georgia, but it premiered in Atlanta in August.
By exteacher
October 2, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this
You forgot “Facing the Giants” . It is number one with “Remember the Titians” and “Driving Miss Daisy” next. Oh, you also left off “The Double McGuffin”.
By tiff
October 2, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this
MY COUSIN VINNY AND GLORY ARE MY TWO ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES MADE IN GA. FORREST GUMP WAS GREAT. AND I ALSO LOVE DRUMLIME BECASUE MY DAUGHTER WAS IN THE MOVIE AND I WAS AN EXTRA IN THE STANDS.
By Tony
October 2, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this
Does anyone know of a website that lists all of the movies/locations & stars that were filmed in GA over the last 50-60 years or so? Hummmm?
By Bill Hallisey
October 2, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this
How about “Breaking Away”. Wasn’t that filmed around Athens.
By Uncle Martin
October 2, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this
THE SLUGGER’S WIFE and SHARKEY’S MACHINE are the worst. As for the best: a tie between BLOOD SALVAGE and GOODBYE, MY LADY.
By AtlantaProducer
October 2, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this
Here you go Tony: IMDB
By chris
October 2, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this
How can we forget Friday the 13th, also filmed in crawfordville.
By Scooter
October 2, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this
Fried Green Tomatoes, w/Mary Stuart Masterson (sp).
By Sean Buckley
October 2, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this
Forest Gump and Glory
By Christopher
October 2, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this
Gotta be “Moonrunners.”
By cindy
October 2, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
Tyler Perry deserves some credit. Diary of a mad Black Woman, and his other movies, Family Reunion are some of the best I’ve ever seen. He is a great teacher and a Christain man.!!!
My daughter turned me on to his movies.
By Jeanne
October 2, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this
How about ‘Murder in Coweta County’?
By Richard
October 2, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this
Cape Fear, the original, filmed in Savannah, Tybee Island.
By James
October 2, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
Not necessarily a favorite but the Ithica college scenes in Road Trip were filmed at UGA!!
By Chris
October 2, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this
What about “WHICH WAY IS UP” with Bill Cosby and Sidney Portier… and “BINGO ALL-STARS” filmed in Macon Ga…
By sonny
October 2, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this
How about “I climbed the highest mountain” staring Rita Hatworth and William Lundegen.
By sonny
October 2, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this
How about “I climbed the highest mountain” staring Rita Hatworth and William Lundegen.
By Nicholle
October 2, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this
My favorites were filmed in Savannah, Forrest Gump and Glory. Don’t forget that Savannah was used in Roots as Kunte’s African home. Also, Bingo Long All-stars was filmed in Savannah and as a child I took a picture with Billy Dee at the old Grayson Stadium.
By someone who loves Kathy
October 2, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this
Katherine Frances Eisenbach, I love you. I don’t know where you are now, or what you’re doing, but I know you’re out there. Meet me at the Fairhope Pier on May 1st, 2008.
By mike
October 2, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this
“Fried Green Tomatoes,” hands down, is my favorite made-in-Ga. film. It was such a surprise (I knew nothing about the book) and it’s just so dang good. I’d follow that with “Deliverance,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” and “Diary of a Mad Black Woman.”
By andy999
October 2, 2007 12:54 PM | Link to this
Part of the Ithica scenes in Road Trip were done at Ga Tech also.
By Hunni
October 2, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this
I never realized that Georgia was the backdrop of so many great films.
By Ort lover
October 2, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this
Don’t forget “Freejack” with Mick Jagger!
By Steve
October 2, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this
The Sluggers Wife was is only worth watching because it shows some sights around Atlanta which are no longer there; such as the inside of The Limelight.
By Becky
October 2, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this
Driving Miss Daisy & My Cousin Vinny.
By homesick
October 2, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this
Aaah…then there are those two fine summer camp movies: “Gorp” and “Little Darlings.” Or how about Steve Martin’s “A Simple Twist of Fate.”
By Becky
October 2, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this
Please don’t forget The Big Chill & Cobb..
By David
October 2, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this
Hey Chris, the Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier movies were “Let’s Do It Again” and “A Piece of the Action”.
By Napolean Bundy
October 2, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this
Three questions: 1) are all football movies going to be made in Georgia?, 2) are all golf movies going to be filmed in Georgia, and 3) was Dumb and Dumberer really filmed in Georgia? (my favorite comedy)
By movies
October 2, 2007 2:22 PM | Link to this
OK… you all are forgetting about one of the GREATS… RoboCop 3
By Marty
October 2, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this
How could the biggest box office success of any georgia film be left off of the list ? Forrest Gump
By val
October 2, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this
I thought “Which way is Up” was with Richard Pryor. Sidney, Bill & Jimmy Walker did “Let’s do it again” filmed in Atlanta. I thought.
By Will
October 2, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this
I like Forest Gump and Glory. For every good movie filmed in Savannah there are 10 bad ones. They filmed a scene from Forces of Nature with Ben Afleck at the old K Mart near my old house in Savannah.
By J
October 2, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this
Where in Ga. was Robo Cop 3 filmed? Another great was Swamp Thing and how about ATL, I hope it was filmed in the ATL. Legend of Bagger Vance was filmed in Savannah. As well as that movie where Katie Holmes gets naked. Borat had a scene from Atlanta. The original Longest Yard and Gator were filmed in Savannah.
By me
October 2, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this
What about “We were soldiers” filmed in Columbus and Ft. Benning?
By J
October 2, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this
Napolean, Dumb and Dumber 2 was filmed in Marrieta. I think it was filmed at Walton High School maybe Pope, my friend went there and claims he was in the movie, I never saw him. I have a question, Does every movie filmed in Georgia portray Southerners as morons and bigots?
By Freddy Fast buck
October 2, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this
Does anyone remember the TV show shot here called “Savannah”? Filmed inside shots at an old Lowe’s store (I think)on Lawrenceville highway in Lilburn!
By ginger
October 2, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this
Oh goodness I was an extra in the “Slugger’s Wife”..lol It was a bad film but fun to watch, now !! There were a couple of other films not mentioned but made for HBO and TV both filmed in and around NW Georgia
“Mama Flora’s Family” w/ Ciciley Tyson and Blair Underwood part of the Roots storyline.
“Warm Springs” w/ Kenneth Bragnaugh and Cynthia Nixon
Yes, Mosiqito Coast with Harrison Ford was filmed in and around Rome and Summerville, GA.
a disney movie “Dutch” with Ed O’Neill and Jo Beth Williams had campus scenes @ Berry College in Rome. So funny Ethan Embry played in this movie as a child and came back to Rome and Berry to film “Sweet Home Alabama”.
How in the world could ya’ll forget “The Big Chill” filmed in Atlanta.
“Cobb” with Tommy Lee Jones, “The General’s Daughter” with John Travolta, “The Legend of Bagger Vance” w/ Will Smith and Matt Damon!!!
ginger
By coastaljane
October 2, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this
Don’t forget View From Pompei’s Head, filmed in Brunswick and Savannah in the 1950’s,with Richard Egan. Also the great swamp movies filmed in the Okefenokee, Lure of the Wilderness, and Swampgirl.
By Bob Respess
October 2, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this
My Cousin Vinny and Forrest Gump. The Legend of Bagger Vance would have been better with Morgan Freeman instead of Will Smith….
By Soooo Funny
October 2, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this
How about Runaway Bride….:) he he
By Lill
October 2, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this
Richard Pryor’s Greased Lighting was filmed in Athens in the 1970’s
By jekyllandhyde
October 2, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this
Legend of Bagger Vance filmed on Jekyll Island at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel.
By Becky
October 2, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this
Wasn’t part of Cannonball Run filmed here also?
By Rex Reed
October 2, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this
How about “TANK” with James Garner—a lot of it was filmed in and around Ft Benning GA.
By T
October 2, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this
I’d vote for Glory. Great cast (Denzel, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick, Andre Braugher), great director (Ed Zwick), and a great story.
By T
October 2, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this
I’d vote for Glory. Great cast (Denzel, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick, Andre Braugher), great director (Ed Zwick), and a great story.
By T
October 2, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this
I’d vote for Glory. Great cast (Denzel, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick, Andre Braugher), great director (Ed Zwick), and a great story.
By Napolean Bundy
October 2, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this
Lot’s of movies filmed in and around Savannah AND Columbus including We Were Soldiers Once….Tank…and, Green Berets! Anything filmed in Macon area does anyone know?
By mc
October 2, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this
Smokey and the Bandit !!!! a Classic
By it's okay
October 2, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this
My favorite movie is “Fried Green Tomatoes”…
By Napolean Bundy
October 2, 2007 4:38 PM | Link to this
Three bits of movie trivia for those new to this are: 1)Burt Reynolds et al had put an option to purchase the Lakewood Fairgrounds to turn the large buildings into movie studios which was nixed by Mayor Fatso. He had already filmed a half dozen movies including two at the fairgrounds in Georgia and then left like the wind. Woulda shoulda coulda. 2) For a very brief time Atlanta, yes Atlanta, became the number three movie capital behind LA and NY when Coca Cola purchased Columbia Pictures and Ted Turner cranked up the Hollywood Southeast scene with his MGM library and plans for filming here! And, 3) Two lovely ladies, through marriage, actually “lived” in Atlanta for a very short time. Remember them and their spouses? Cher with Greg Allman and Hally Berry with David Justice! Great trivia to know if you like this kind of stuff!!
By Lisa
October 2, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this
The Legend of Bagger Vance was filmed on Jekyll Island and in Savannah…
By muffin
October 2, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this
Freejack starring Emilio Estevez. Any movie starring a Sheen boy will go down as a classic. I mean seriously.
By Joe
October 2, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this
A new small independent southern comedy filmed in Lithia Springs, written and directed by Ray Mckinnon(Adel Ga) “Randy and the Mob” is great!
By Jennifer
October 2, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this
HELLO?? FOREST GUMP was one of the best movies filmed in Georgia!!!
By Jennifer
October 2, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this
HELLO?? FOREST GUMP was one of the best movies filmed in Georgia!!!
By Jennifer
October 2, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this
HELLO?? FOREST GUMP was one of the best movies filmed in Georgia!!!
By Girlfriend
October 2, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this
Freddy Fast Buck: I remember the TV show Savannah, too…It actually was shot in what is now Providence Christian School off L’vill Hwy. in Lilburn. There were many shots that were done inside of Little Gardens, too.
By Reid in EAV
October 2, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this
I’m with Joe — Randy and the Mob was fantastic. Everyone needs to see that. Hilarious. Don’t let the nonexistent promotional budget fool you into thinking it’s not worth your $7.50. And it was mostly filmed in Villa Rica, not Lithia Spgs., but close enough.
By Roswell Ed
October 2, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this
There is no question.
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT!!
It was Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite film.
If you don’t believe me GOOGLE it.
The greatest movie quote ever:
Sheriff Branford to Justice, “The fact that you’re a sheriff is not germane to the conversation.”
Justice- “what have the god damn Germans have to do with anything?”
By Chief
October 2, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this
J
Robo Cop 3 was flimed in downtown Atlanta. Around a bunch of empty warehouses and store fronts to look like a burned out Detroit. I believe the story line was a Japanese conglomorate was trying to evict all the low income/homeless peolple in the neighborhood so they could tear it down and build some superstructure.
I vaguely recall a Billy Bob Thornton movie filmed here. Was it Sling Blade?
Shall we go from movies to TV?? In The Heat Of The Night flimed here, Matlock and Designing Women set here exterior shots filmed here, and what was the name of that show Sam Waterstone was in before he got the Law & Order gig? It was filmed here.
By suzan
October 3, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this
what about the excellent tnt movie ‘gettysburg’?
By Tommy
October 3, 2007 8:13 AM | Link to this
Don’t forget “Swamp Thing” with Adrian Barbeau, the busty beauty, filmed around Savannah.
By spence
October 3, 2007 8:32 AM | Link to this
“The Great Locomotive Chase”, one of Disney’s first non-cartoon movies, was filmed around Clayton.
By jekyllandhyde
October 3, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this
Conrak…filmed on St. Simons and Brunswick.
By Clinley
October 3, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this
“Drumline”, but as a former Morris Brown College Marching Wolverine, I’m biased. The band looked good, as usual, but the J. Anthony Brown character was no where near the type band director we had. The Orlando Jones character was closer to Professor Johnson and Dr. Ellis, the actual band directors.
By Eric
October 3, 2007 9:13 AM | Link to this
Everyone is forgetting that cinema classic, FLED, starring one of the Baldwin brothers. Also, there was THE WAR with Kevin Costner and Frodo; FLUKE about a man who comes back to life as a dog; and KALIFORNIA starring Brad Pitt.
By Griffin Girl
October 3, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this
When I was in high school in the 80s, they filmed “Murder in Coweta County almost entirely here in Griffin. It was fun to see familiar locales and faces in the movie. It was pretty good as far as TV movies go- Andy Griffith was absolutely chilling as one of the most evil real-life dudes in Georgia history, and Johnny Cash was pretty good as heroic sheriff Lamar Potts who got him convicted. June Carter Cash even played a small but quirky role. If you can find it, see it!
By Mimi
October 3, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this
What about Buster and Billy? 1969? Now and Then? Forces of Nature? Not that all of them are the “greatest”, but filmed in Savannah and Statesboro!
By Paul
October 3, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this
Fried Green Tomatoes. A large portion of this movie was filmed in Senoia GA, along with many other movies. There is actually a movie studio in Senoia named Riverwood Studios that is responsible for alot of movies that have been filmed in GA.
By chris
October 3, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this
i forgort about Bingo Long Traveling AllStars and Motor Kings. My Grandfather had a antique car that made a cameo in the movie, as well as, other friends with cars in the movie.
By Extra
October 3, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this
“Hopscotch” w/ Ned Beatty, Sam Waterson and the wonderful, Walter Matthau
By Goldrush
October 3, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this
Wise Blood (1980), a late John Huston film from Flannery O’Connor’s novel, was filmed in and around Macon, It featured the sheriff of Bibb County, the old Capitol Theatre facade and the neon Jesus Cares sign at the foot of Poplar Street. Talk about local color.
By JudyT
October 3, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this
Two Columbus-made films not mentioned yet was one made years ago with John Wayne - The Green Berets - and one a couple of years ago that was about a con man (Cuba Gooding) who got hooked into leading a church choir, and the choir went to a competition — the contest scenes were filmed at the beautiful RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. Someone already mentioned “We Were Soldier”. These are not my favorites — just Columbus-made.
By Extra
October 3, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this
Did anyone mention “Dog Day Afternoon” w/ Dianne Carrol, Bill Cosby?
By tulsabravo
October 3, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this
Mr. Smithee, Two words, “Gator.”
By cabbagehead
October 3, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this
Trespass with Ice-T, Ice Cube and Bill Paxton was partially filmed in the Fulton Bag Mill in Cabbagetown.
By Edward
October 3, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this
Without a doubt, “Driving Miss Daisy” is not only the best movie made in Georgia but the best movie ever!
By Scoots McKenzie
October 3, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this
“Polk County Pot Plane” (a.k.a. “In Hot Pursuit”) It’s Cheech and Chong meets Smokey And The Bandit, as hillbilly hippies smuggle pot. This shot-in-Georgie rarity (supposedly based on a true story) contains bad editing (some scenes look like director West didn’t have enough time or money for a second take), terrible acting by a cast of non-pros, banjo music, no sense of justice and, as the closing credits prodly proclaims, “No stunt men were used in this film” (it’s obvious that it is indeed the Watson brothers hanging off the helicopter as they are making their escape from the prison). A true product of the 70’s.
By mall rat
October 3, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this
I can’t believe none of you remembered Chuck Norris and “Invasion USA”. They had a car chase through Avondale Mall.
By eric
October 3, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this
How about Forrest Gump!!
By ScottM
October 3, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this
Depends on your definition of “made in GA”, but mine is “Gone With the Wind”.
By Ginny
October 3, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this
Did anyone mention Pet Cemetary? Filmed on arabia mountain/Klondike Road in Lithonia.
By Hunky Funky
October 3, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this
Didn’t Joe Namath star in a film in the 70’s that was filmed around Underground Atlanta? And don’t forget “JC” and that movie “Heavenly Kid”
By RCT
October 3, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this
The best movie ever made in Georgia is Forrest Gump.
By Trayjl
October 3, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this
I’d have to say ‘Glory’ and ‘Remember the Titans’. Great movies from the past and you can still catch them on TV on any given weekend and you’ll still look at them and I bet you know the lines.
By Miss Dee
October 3, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this
KEITH —- Nice try, I hope everyone else is wise enough not to fall prey to your ignorant little comment made simply to create drama.
By Derek
October 3, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this
“Greased Lightning” 1977 staring Richard Pryor and Beau Bridges. Filmed in VA and GA. Story of the first black stock car champion. Many of the racing scenes were shot in Athens, and at the Winder Speedway in Winder, GA
By crystal
October 3, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this
DONT FORGET ABOUT THE MOVIE ATL/T.I.
By crystal
October 3, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this
DONT FORGET ABOUT THE MOVIE ATL/T.I.
By Sometime watcher
October 3, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this
Crappy movie, but I’ll never forget laughing like hell in “Free Jack” when they went zooming underneath the old Omni and came out next to a big RIVER!!!
By None are any good after 1967
October 3, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this
To Sonny:
“I’d Climb the Highest Mountain”, starred SUSAN HAYWARD, not Rita Hayworth…sheesh…
Susan is buried in Carrollton…she was an Oscar winner, a true lady, and my godmother.
By L
October 3, 2007 3:19 PM | Link to this
One of the funniest was Halle Berry’s B.A.P.S. with Decatur as the backdrop!
By Roger
October 3, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this
Remember The Titans - my daughter was a cheerleader for the Titans and had the opportunity to meet all the actors, including having her picture taken with Denzel. She also met the Mr. Boone and several of the original cheerleaders and along with the other team members, were the only cheerleaders listed by name in the closing credits. Finally, it was a very good movie!!!
By Griffin Girl
October 3, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this
Miss Dee,
Don’t worry. Keith posts the same exact stupid thing to pretty much every AJC blog. Everybody just ignores him.
By mark
October 3, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this
I worked third shift at C&S bank (remember them?) on Mitchell St. Got to work one night and they were filming Robocop 3 out in front of the old Scoville Inn. It was pretty cool to watch.
By Sidney
October 3, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this
Beauty Shop with Queen Latifah was good. It was filmed downtown Atlanta near GA State Univ.
By Sidney
October 3, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this
Beauty Shop with Queen Latifah was good. It was filmed downtown Atlanta near GA State Univ.
By Sidney
October 3, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this
Beauty Shop with Queen Latifah was good. It was filmed downtown Atlanta near GA State Univ.
By The Duke
October 3, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this
How can everyone forget “The Green Berets” filmed in Columbus? The movie also premeired at the Fox!
By The Duke
October 3, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this
You can’t forget “The Green Berets” starring John Wayne, Aldo Ray and David Jansen that was filmed in Columbus and Fort Benning. It also premiered and the Fabulous Fox!
By The Duke
October 3, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this
You can’t forget “The Green Berets” starring John Wayne, Aldo Ray and David Jansen that was filmed in Columbus and Fort Benning. It also premiered at the Fabulous Fox!
By Bud
October 3, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this
Wow — how soon we forget Scream 2 w/ Courtney Cox? Or, Basket Case 3, or, Polk County Pot Plane? Or Piano Red, at old underground w/ Tony Franciosa in Fame Is the Name of The Game? Or “dead” Kevin Costner in The Big Chill? But my fave has to be Atlanta’s own stage “Miss Daisy” Mary Nell Santacriox in John Houston’s Wiseblood with Ned Beatty, Dan Shor, William Hickey, Brad Dorif and even Willie B in a scene at the pitiful old Zoo.
By JDNole
October 3, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this
Give them Something to Talk About featuring Julia Roberts was filmed in Perry,GA and Savannah.
By Andrea
October 3, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this
You forgot one more gem - Richard Pryor’s ‘Greased Lightning’. Also, one of the Jason slasher movies was filmed here. The state park in Rutledge, GA was the setting for the camp. My favorite would have to be Forest Gump.
By cp
October 3, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this
Don’t forget the classic…..Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars. Filmed in Macon
By JR
October 3, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this
Not one of the best, but being a native Savannahian worth a mention, some scenes in the beginning of the original “Cape Fear” were shot in Savannah.
My favorite is “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”. Lovingly called in Savannah, “The Movie” made from “The Book”.
By Ralph
October 3, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this
Kalifornia, starring Brad Pitt, David Duchovney, and Juliette Lewis. Parts of it were filmed downtown and I was working as a cop doing security for set, Got to meet Brad Pitt, pretty cool guy then. There was one strange scene filmed at the old blue bird service station at Pryor and Memorial Drive, and some at GSU Sparks Hall
By Josh
October 3, 2007 5:09 PM | Link to this
What about Forest Gump?
By Sam Snelling
October 4, 2007 8:21 AM | Link to this
Many of you are probably too young to remember the movie “Swamp Water”. It came out in 1941 and was filmed mostly on location in the Okefenokee. Swamp Water starred Dana Andrews, Walter Brennan and Anne Baxter. A native Georgian, Vereen Bell, wrote the story that originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
By Josh Massey
October 4, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this
The best movie filmed in Atlanta, hands down, was Hulk Hogan’s “No Holds Barred.” And no, not just because I was in it.
Ok, yes, just because I was in it.
By Kiab66
October 4, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this
I like most of the ones mentioned, however, I must vote for Conrak. Being a Brunswick native, I remember when it was filmed. WOOHOO coastal Georgia!
By Jack Bear
October 4, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this
Given that so many more movies were left off the list. I would think that a complete list should be provided. Then do a vote.
Jack
By Hunky Funky
October 4, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this
Has anyone seen “The Visitor” with Glenn Ford, Shelly Winters and John Huston (All Oscar winners) available on VHS or DVD???? Filmed around Underground before revitalization. REALLY a scary movie as was the one filmed in downtown Norcross and starred Bo Hopkins, but can’t remember the name of it (The Zombies?)
By cdavids3
October 4, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this
I was glad to see some mention “Facing the Giants”. It was awesome in that it starred actual home folks. I also loved “Driving Miss Daisy”
By TC
October 4, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this
Y’all forgot the pinnacle of cinema - “Cannonball Run.”
And one of the best casts ever.
Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farah Fawcett, Adrienne Barbeau, Joe Klecko, Terry Bradshaw, Mel Tillis, Roger Moore, Jamie Farr, Jackie Chan, Jack Elam, Peter Fonda, Jimmy the Greek and a bunch of others I’m forgetting right now.
By billibob
October 4, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this
Dennis Hopper in HBO special”Paris Trout”? Some of this is shot in McDonough and few other GA spots.
By billibob
October 4, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this
Dennis Hopper in HBO movie special”Paris Trout”? Some of this is shot in McDonough and few other GA spots.
By mb
October 4, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this
Breaking Away was likely the best although Deliverence is probably my favorite because of the scenery.
By Buck from Tucker
October 4, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this
ROBOCOP II was so killer, man. When that dummy waloks into the dunk n’ dine and tries to rob the place while there is like full of po-po. I about shot a dingleberry across the room I was laughin so hard.
FREEJACK I ain’t no big fan of jaggar cause he kind of looks like them women of ill repute hangin around the VFW on Friday nights, but he was killer in that movie with Emilio Estevez.
COPS It ain’t a movie but I like when they film here and I’m sittin on my couch scratchin my head wonderin where in the heck they are at. Sometimes I wish I could be one of them feller filmin the show so I could see all of the stuf they blur out on television.
Song of the South I don’t know if any of that movie was based on fact or not, but it is nice to hear a feller singing songs I understand and he’s a downright cute old feller at that! I ain’t never seen a tar baby, but I see a lot of foreigner folks with Carolina Tar Heel stickers on their cars. I betcha if Uncle Remus were alive today he’d be a Bulldog fan fer sure.
By Nikki
October 4, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this
Remember the Titans was a really good movie. I like what it stands for. UNITY….
By warren
October 4, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this
I meet John Wayne on the set of “Green Beret” filmed in Columbus and Ft. Benning.
By Regina
October 4, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this
Without a doubt, Diary of a Mad Black Woman. The movie was my awakening, I was going through a divorce at the time the movie was released. Because of the movie I laughed and I cried. I forgave my ex-husband and I believe we have learned to respect each again. My ex comes to cook dinner for the girls and I once a week to laugh, talk and have fun.
We are a new type of family but none the less a family.
Thank you, Tyler Perry
By GaSportbiker
October 4, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this
A sweet little movie filmed in Washington, Ga….”Homefires Burning” starring Neil Patrick Harris. Also Coward of the County with Kenny Rogers filmed in Crawfordville.
By JAW JACK BIRD
October 4, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
Bad & cheesy ROBO COP. Here is another Livin Large. I think MEATBALLS or was it Poison Ivy that was filmed in GA too. Can someone confirm which one?
By Hunky funky
October 4, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this
Yea, Livin Large is 9 1/2 on a scale of 1-10. Also enjoyed Six Pack with Kenny Rogers AND a young Diane Lane!! I think most of Cannon Ball and some of Cannon Ball II were filmed in the Atlanta area as well!
By Hotlanta
October 4, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this
Gone With the Wind is the best movie ever made. The way that Vivian Leigh slaps the life outta Butterfly McQueen and came out without a scratch from Ms. McQueen is pure classic.
By Seth
October 4, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this
My cousin Vinny, the sac o’ suds was a staple of my youth(or yutes) as I grew up on Lake Jackson.
By Joel
October 4, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this
KEITH: Not helping the curve one bit are ya.
By Hunky funky
October 4, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this
No one has mentioned “We Are Marshal” yet. Has anyone seen it and is it worth renting?
By Napolean Bundy
October 4, 2007 3:31 PM | Link to this
That golf movie about Bobby Jones was filmed in the metro Atlanta area as well! Jim Caveziel did an admirable job but was still no Bobby Jones!!
By Remus Dawson
October 4, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this
Good - “Wise Blood”, a Flannery O’Conner story filmed by John Huston in Macon.
Bad - “Love Potion #9” and “Fled”. Just awful movies.
Ugly - “Robocop III” made Atlanta look like the hellhole it has become.
By Dianna
October 4, 2007 4:32 PM | Link to this
Never saw the movie, don’t know whether it was good or not, but when Chuck Norris was filming “Invasion USA” I was working in the Trust Company building downtown. I looked out the window from the lunch room and saw guns and barbed wire and sand bags and stuff on the top of Knickerbockers and thought for a second we really had been invaded.
By dicey
October 5, 2007 9:48 PM | Link to this
“I’d Climb the Highest Mountain was a great movie and it starred Susan Hayward. She later married a man from Eatonton.