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ALABAMA
  • 1932 - To Kill A Mockingbird. (129 minutes) Director: Robert Mulligan. Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford. Summary: A small-town southern lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama, defends a black man accused of rape. [based on a Harper Lee novel] [ALABAMA]
  • 1962 - Miracle Worker. (107 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke. Summary: The Keller family hires Annie Sullivan, a strong-willed but compassionate Boston teacher, to communicate with their untamed, deaf, blind, and mute daughter, Helen.
  • 1964 - Nothing But A Man. (92 minutes) Director: Michael Roemer. Cast: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Gloria Foster, Yaphet Kotto. Summary: Amidst the racial pressures of 1964 Alabama, a black section hand on the railroad falls in love with a black preacher's daughter who is a teacher but whose family looks down on his class.
  • 1981 - Back Roads. (94 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon. Summary: Hitchhikers drift west to California from Mobile, Alabama. [ALABAMA/CALIFORNIA]
  • 1984 - The Bear. (112 minutes) Director: Richard C. Sarafian. Cast: Gary Busey, Jon-Erik Hexum, Eric Hipple, Harry Dean Stanton. Summary: Biography of Paul "Bear" Bryant, University of Alabama football coach who coached for Kentucky, Texas, and Alabama.
  • 1988 - Two Moon Junction. (105 minutes) Director: Zalman King. Cast: Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, Kristy McNichol. Summary: The eldest daughter of a well-bred Alabama family is scheduled to marry a blueblood until her life changes after visiting a carnival. [ALABAMA]
  • 1991 - The Long Walk Home. (98 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Schultz. Summary: The 1956 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott.
  • 1992 - My Cousin Vinny. (120 minutes) Director: Jonathan Lynn. Cast: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne, Lane Smith. Summary: A novice Brooklyn lawyer is called upon to represent his cousin and cousins's friend who erroneously pocketed a can of tuna fish as they checked out of a general store and were later arrested and charged with murder in Wahzoo City, Alabama after the store clerk was found murdered. [ALABAMA; NEW YORK]
  • 1995 - Boycott. (113 minutes) Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard. Summary: The 1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott related to Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat in a "white's only" section of a public bus. [Historical Drama]
  • 1995 - Tuskegee Airmen. Director: Robert Markowitz. Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding, Jr. Theme: World War II [Historical Drama]
  • 1996 - Booker. (58 minutes) Cast: Shelley Duvall, LeVar Burton, C. C. H. Pounder, Shavar Ross.
  • 1996- Miss Evers' Boys. Director: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Ossie Davis. Theme: 1932 "Tuskegee study" [Historical Drama]
  • 1998 - 4 Little Girls. (102 minutes) Director: Spike Lee. Theme: Explosion of the 16th St. Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963 by dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan and the bodies of four girls found in the debris.
  • 1999 - Crazy in Alabama. (104 minutes) Director: Antonio Bandera. Cast: Melanie Griffith, Lucas Black, David Morse, Paul Mazursky, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner. Summary: Contrast between the experiences of an Alabama woman heading to California in 1965 after being abused and beheading her husband and her nephew back in Alabama in trouble for speaking up to a racist sheriff who accidently killed a black boy trying to integrate a pool.
  • 2000 - The Gift. (111 minutes) Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi. Summary: A recently widowed psychic of three sons in the South uses her visions to convict the wrong killer. [ALABAMA or GEORGIA]
  • 2000 - Selma, Lord, Selma. (88 minutes) Cast: Mackenzie Astin, Jurnee Smollett, Clifton Powell. Summary: The 1965 Alabama violent civil rights recollections of two young black girls highlighting the involvement of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 2002 - Sins of the Father. Cast: Tom Sizemore, Richard Jenkins, Ving Rhames.
  • 2002 - Sweet Home Alabama. (108 minutes) Director: Andy Tennant. Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place. Summary: In Pigeon Creek, Alabama, a woman returns from the North where she became an in-vogue fashion designer and married the son of the New York mayor neglecting to divorce her childhood love and attempting to do that now. [ALABAMA]

ALASKA

ARIZONA

ARKANSAS
  • 1944 - The Story of Dr. Wassell. (137 minutes) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Richard Loo, Dennis O'Keefe. Summary: Based on a true story, a physician from Arkansas risks his life to evacuate wounded American sailors from Java. [JAVA]
  • 1945 - Murder, He Says. (125 minutes) Director: George Marshall. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main. Summary: A poll taker appears in the Ozark town of Plainville looking for a colleague who has never finished his poll of the area, becomes involved with the Fleagle family's attempts to claim $70,000 of stolen money. [OZARKS . . MISSOURI; ARKANSAS] (Similarities to "Arsenic and Old Lace")
  • 1953 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. (97 minutes) Director: Howard Hawkes. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn.
  • 1968 - Will Penny. (108 minutes) Director: Tom Gries. Cast: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe, Clifton James, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens. Summary: Follows the life of an illiterate cowboy working in the west in Texas, with friends visiting Kansas City, and a woman and her son attempting to reach her husband in California. [TEXAS; OREGON; KANSAS; MISSOURI; OHIO]
  • 1970 - Bloody Mama. (90 minutes) Director: Roger Corman. Cast: Shelley Winters, Don Stroud, Pat Hingle, Bruce Dern, Robert De Niro.
  • 1979 - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. (96 minutes) Director: Fielder Cook. Cast: Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Esther Rolle. Theme: The life experiences of Maya Angelou living in the Depression years in Arkansas.
  • 1980 - Crisis at Central High. (125 minutes) Director: Lamont Johnson. Cast: Joanne Woodward, Charles Durning. Theme: 1957 integration in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • 1987 - Hunter's Blood. (101 minutes) Director: Robert C. Hughes. Cast: Samuel Bottoms, Kirn Delaney, Clu Gulager. Summary: A father and son hunting guide team takes a group of city folk into the Arkansas backwoods where they encounter a family of hostile killers and become hunted by them.
  • 1988 - Man Outside. (109 minutes) Director: Mark Stouffer. Cast: Bradford Dillman, Robert Logan, Kathleen Quinlan, Levon Helm. Summary: A grieving attorney widower moves to Arkansas and lives in the backwoods off nature, begins a relationship with a local anthropology professor, but is framed for the kidnapping of a young boy.
  • 1991 - One False Move. (105 minutes) Director: Billy Bob Thornton. Cast: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams. Summary: A Los Angeles detective follows three criminals from Los Angeles to Arkansas.
  • 1991 - Thelma and Louise. (128 minutes) Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Brad Pitt. Summary: Two women set off on a vacation, one almost gets raped, the other shoots her attacker. They leave Arkansas, plan to pick up some wired money in Oklahoma City, and attempt to reach Mexico. [ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA]
  • 1996 - A Family Thing. (109 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach, Irma P. Hall, David Keith. Summary: An Arkansas redneck learns in a sealed letter from a deceased parent of his relationship to black, urban, Chicago cop.
  • 2003 - A Painted House. (98 minutes) Director: Alfonso Arau. Cast: Scott Glenn, Arija Bareikis, Robert Sean Leonard, Melinda Dillon, and Logan Lerman. Summary: This John Grisham book adapted to film is told through the voice of 10-year-old Arkansan Luke Chandler about the summer of 1952 when two groups of migrant works, the Mexicans and the hillbillies, come looking for work on the Chandler's cotton farm. Two dangerous men meet. A murder occurs in town. A fatherless baby is born. Someone is secretly painting the Chandler farmhouse. [ARKANSAS; MICHIGAN]
CALIFORNIA
  • 1924 - The Iron Horse. (119 minutes) [silent film in black and white] Director: John Ford. Cast: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Cyril Chadwick, Fred Kohler, Gladys Hulette, James Marcus. Summary: Story of the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad eastward from Sacramento, California and westward from Omaha, Nebraska, following the life of Davy Brandon who had seen his father murdered by a man with three fingers on one hand only to meet that man later in life when a shortcut route for the railroad would pass through the site Davy's father envisioned years previously. A corrupt railroad surveyor and the local property owner who would benefit from a profitable route set up a showdown. Of course, Davy finds his girlfriend from his youth along the route too. [CALIFORNIA, ILLINOIS, NEBRASKA, UTAH]
  • 1931 - A Free Soul. (91 minutes) Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason. Summary: An agreement between a father and daughter where he will give up alcohol if she gives up her gangster boyfriend. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1931 - Min and Bill. (70 minutes) Director: George Hill. Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau. Summary: A feisty owner of a California waterfront hotel raises the abandoned daughter of a disreputable mother and is threatened with losing the child so she lets a married couple continue her upbringing which included sending her away to school, letting her develop into a lady who comes back to the waterfront 4 years later to marry the son of a wealthy San Pedro businessman. Will murder and capture be the only way to prevent the child's biological mother from interfering? [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1934 - Our Daily Bread. (84 minutes) Director: King Vidor: Cast: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen. Summary: Set in a fictitious Centre County in Ottaway Township, this social drama independently produced and directed by King Vidor focuses on a young couple during the Depression attempting to make a go of a communal farm society with city folk sharing their skills, trades, and ingenuity to survive from the land. [IOWA; MINNESOTA, OREGON, CALIFORNIA mentioned in the dialogue]
  • 1936 - After the Thin Man. (113 minutes) Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
  • 1936 - The Ex-Mrs. Bradford. (80 minutes) Director: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason. Summary: A California surgeon and his former mystery-story writing wife begin "keeping company" as they become involved helping the police to solve a murder of a jockey at the local race track. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1940 - The Grapes of Wrath. (129 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson, Charley Grapewin, John Qualen. Summary: Farmers from Oklahoma fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Depression confront prejudice in California.
  • 1941 - The Bride Came C.O.D.. (93 minutes) Director: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson, George Tobias, Harry Davenport. Summary: Based on the Kenneth Earl and M. M. Musselman story of a Texas oil heiress and a Hollywood bandleader whose elopement is thwarted by a charter plane pilot about to lose his business who arranges with the heiress' father to kidnap his daughter and bring her to Texas rather than to Las Vegas, Nevada for her marriage. (Music: Max Steiner) [CALIFORNIA; TEXAS]
  • 1941 - They Knew What They Wanted. (90 minutes) Director: Garson Kanin. Cast: Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton. Summary: A grape grower in California's Napa Valley wants a wife and family, meets a lonely waitress while eating there, has his womanizer friend correspond with her for him by mail, proposes by mail, gets her to come to California to marry him until the womanizer friend gets in the way of their life together. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1941 - The Maltese Falcon. (100 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet. Summary: In San Francisco, a woman hires two private detectives to follow a man who has allegedly run off with her younger sister and one of the detectives turns up dead. After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into looking for a valuable black falcon statuette. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1941 - Sullivan's Travels. (90 minutes) Director: Preston Sturges. Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Eric Blore, Jimmy Conlin. Summary: Spoof of Hollywood when a film director tries to experiment finding out what life outside Tinseltown is really like as he lives as a tramp, gets mugged, turns up dead, and gets sent to hard labor for 6 years. He realizes that laughter, not deep thoughts are what the people of the time need. [CALIFORNIA; LAS VEGAS, NEVADA; KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI]
  • 1942 - In Old California. (88 minutes) Director: William McGann. Cast: John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Helen Parish, Patsy Kelly, Edgar Kennedy. Summary: When young pharmacist in California leads the ranchers against a Sacramento politician who has forced money from them, the politician taints a tonic prescribed for a patient who dies causing the pharamacist to be put on trial. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1942 - The Saboteur. (108 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger. Summary: Political views of wealthy U. S. citizens during World War II on the homefront transfer to the sabotage of an aircraft factory, the Hoover Dam, and a new ship being christened at Brooklyn, New York navy yard. You have the plot for an aircraft worker in California who becomes a fugitive when he is gathered up in the whirlwind of emotional terror and charged with the sabotage of the factory where he worked and the death of his best friend during a fire. Finding the real saboteur and clearing himself bring him from California to New York City. [CALIFORNIA; NEW YORK]
  • 1943 - Shadow of a Doubt. (108 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Hume Cronyn. Summary: In Santa Rosa, California, is Uncle Charlie a murderer?
  • 1944 - Double Indemnity. (106 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather. Summary: A California insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death and then push him from a train. It's an almost perfect crime. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1945 - Fallen Angel. (98 minutes) Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere. Summary: A down-and-out stranger thrown off a San Francisco-bound bus for not having the fare, finds himself in a small Northern California coastal town. Murder and intrigue follow a scam in which he is involved. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1946 - Adventure. (125 minutes) Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Thomas Mitchell, Tom Tully, John Qualen, Lina Romay, Harry Davenport. Summary: The life of a rough merchant sailor who does not take responsibility and life seriously, but during one shore leave in San Francisco becomes involved romantically with a staid librarian for a lark, takes her to Reno, Nevada, marries her, goes to sea, is divorced by her and fathers her son. [CALIFORNIA; NEVADA]
  • 1946 - The Postman Always Rings Twice. (113 minutes) Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames. Summary: Based on the James Cain novel, this follows the life of a hitchhiker who stops at a roadside cafe in a small California coastal town, falls in love with the beautiful and married restaurant's elderly owner, works there, and falls in love with her, and plans her husband's death. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1947 - Dark Passage. (106 minutes) Director: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead. Summary: Vincent Parry, an escaped San Quentin convict falsely accused of having murdered his wife, hides at the apartment of an artist while recovering from facial plastic surgery, falls in love with her, and following a circuitous escape route from California, meets her in Peru to continue their lives. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1947 - Out of the Past. (97 minutes) Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb. Summary: A private eye allows himself to be duped by the two-faced mistress of a big-time gangster. [CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, NEVADA, MEXICO]
  • 1948 - I Remember Mama. (135 minutes) Director: George Stevens. Cast: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Philip Dorn, Ellen Corby. Summary: The daily life of a Norwegian family in 1900s San Francisco. [based on a John Van Druten play]
  • 1948 - The Red Pony. (89 minutes) Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Peter Miles, Margaret Hamilton. Summary: When a North California boy's horse gets loose and then gets ill, there is a conflict between the boy's father and a ranch hand. [based on a John Steinbeck work]
  • 1950 - Key to the City. (101 minutes) Director: George Sidney. Cast: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Morgan, Raymond Burr, James Gleason, Pamela Britton. Summary: A man and a woman meet in San Francisco at a mayor's convention and fall in love.
  • 1950 - The Jackie Robinson Story. (76 minutes) Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers. Summary: Autobiography of Georgia-born and California-raised Jack Roosevelt Robinson who broke the color barrier in baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 under the mentorship of Branch Rickey prior to their move as the Los Angeles Dodgers. [CALIFORNIA/GEORGIA]
  • 1950 - Sunset Boulevard. (110 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark. Summary: Told in flashback, a down-and-out scriptwriter meets a reclusive silent screen queen in Hollywood when he hides his car in her garage away from repossession agents. The egomaniacal, Norma Desmond, delusional about making a movie comeback, puts him up as her house guest and then pays him back as her lover. Her valet, a former director and her first husband, cares for her until the scriptwriter turns up floating in the pool. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1952 - Phone Call From A Stranger. (96 minutes) Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Shelley Winters, Bette Davis, Keenan Wynn, Gary Merrill, Evelyn Varden, Craig Stevens, Michael Rennie, Hugh Beaumont. Summary: While traveling from Iowa to California, an attorney leaving his family becomes involved with the families of three other air passengers of a plane crash. [CALIFORNIA; IOWA]
  • 1952 - The Star. (91 minutes) Director: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson. Summary: With her Oscar statuette to inspire her, a Hollywood film diva struggles with the aging process and her image of remaining a star rather than being a woman. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1952 - Sudden Fear. (110 minutes) Director: David Miller. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston. Summary: A wealthy lady playwright from California travels to New York City to audition actors for her new Broadway play. She meets one of the actors she rejected on the train returning to San Francisco, falls in love with him, and hastily marries him. Later she hears a tape recording of his plans to kill her, inherit her money, and marry his woman friend. Suspense and melodrama as attempts are made to kill him and the plot turns. [NEW YORK; CALIFORNIA]
  • 1953 - The Bigamist. (80 minutes) Director: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Jane Darwell. Summary: A San Francisco/Los Angeles married, traveling salesman in a time of loneliness becomes a bigamist, is found out, and is brought to court to pay for his mistake. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1954 - Drum Beat. (111 minutes) Director: Delmar Daves. Cast: Alan Ladd, Charles Bronson, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan, Robert Keith, Elisha Cook, Jr. Summary: 1870s retaliation against the Modocs in California. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1954 - A Star Is Born. (176 minutes) Director: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickfor, Tommy Noonan. Summary: Romancy between a declining star and his wife, an up-and-coming star. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1955 - East of Eden. (115 minutes) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: James Dean, Jo VanFleet. Summary: In Salinas and Monterrey, California, their is miscommunication between a father and his son. [based on a John Steinbeck novel]
  • 1957 - Crime of Passion. (85 minutes) Director: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Stuart Whitman. Summary: A tough newspaperwoman will do anything to hold on to her man.
  • 1957 - No Down Payment. Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Barbara Rush, Pat Hingle, Jeffrey Hunter. Summary: Los Angeles.
  • 1957 - Pal Joey. (111 minutes) Director: George Sidney. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood. Summary: A heel, tossed out of a Northern California city for playing around with the mayor's daughter, arrives in San Francisco, broke and unemployed. When a bandleader friend gives him a gig as singer/master of ceremonies at a small club, all the girls fall for him, but for one. He pursues her and a former stripper friend who is now a socialite. Decision - - the club or the girl? [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1958 - I Want to Live. (120 minutes) Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel. Summary: Tells of the life of Barbara Graham, involved in a robbery and murder that caused her to be indicted, convicted, and executed in 1955 at San Quentin Prison.
  • 1958 - Vertigo. (128 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Summary: A San Francisco detective who is afraid of heights is hired to tail a friend's wife.
  • 1959 - Gidget. (95 minutes) Director: Paul Wendkos. Cast: Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell, Tom Laughlin. Summary: A 16-year old from Malibu wins the attention of a surfer and a former Air Force pilot turned beach bum. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1961 - Parent Trap. (124 minutes) Director: David Swift. Cast: Hayley Mills, Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara, Joanna Barnes. Summary: Twin sisters separated as toddlers when their parents divorced with one sister growing up in California with her father and the other growing up in Boston with her mother, meet at summer camp, realize they are sisters, switch places to meet the other parent, and try to get their parents to reunite. [see: 1998 version]
  • 1961 - The Pleasure of His Company. (115 minutes) Director: George Seaton. Cast: Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Lilli Palmer, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill. Summary: A globe-trotting father returns to San Francisco after a fifteen-year absence when he learns that his daughter is planning to marry. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1962 - Birdman of Alcatraz. (147 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter. [Story of Robert Stroud, the world-renowned authority on birds]
  • 1962 - Days of Wine and Roses. (117 minutes) Director: Blake Edwards. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt. Summary: Story of an alcoholic San Francisco public relations man who addicts his recent non-drinking bridge to alcohol. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1962 - Flower Drum Song. (131 minutes) Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Jack Soo, Nancy Kwan, Benson Fong, Miyoshi Umeki, Juanita Hall, James Shigeta. [SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA]
  • 1962 - Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation. (116 minutes) Director: Henry Koster. Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Marie Wilson, Fabian, John Saxon. Summary: A Missouri banker bonds with his children and grandchildren during a week long family vacation at a beach house near San Francisco when his two married daughters, their husbands and children along his wife and two teenage children who live at home meet the challenges of living together in a house with poor plumbing. [CALIFORNIA; MISSOURI]
  • 1962 - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?. (132 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono. Summary: In Los Angeles, an aging child star living with her sister tortures her.
  • 1963 - Beach Party. (104 minutes) Director: William Asher. Cast: Bob Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Harvey Lembeck. Summary: Summer along the Malibu shoreline finds an anthropologist observing the quaint social rituals of a group of teenagers and the local motorcycle gang. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1963 - The Birds. (120 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright. Summary: Why are more and more birds gathering and attacking people? [based on a Daphne du Maurier story]
  • 1963 - How the West Was Won. (155 minutes) Filmed in Cinerama with segments directed by Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, John Ford. Cast: Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Robert Preston, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones, Carroll Baker. Summary: Civilization moves westward along the Erie Canal; across the plains; building the railroads; creating settlements in the West under law and order. [NEW YORK, TEXAS, MISSOURI, CALIFORNIA, , ARIZONA, OHIO]
  • 1964 - Island of the Blue Dolphins. (93 minutes) Director: James B. Clark. Cast: Celia Kaye, George Kennedy, Larry Domasin. Summary: A girl and her brother struggle to survive on an island off California facing wild dogs and befriending one of them.
  • 1964 - Where Love Has Gone. (114 minutes) Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Michael Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer. Summary: Based on Harold Robbins' novel of a California sculptress, Valeria Hayden, whose life has been formed by her domineering, wealthy mother leaving her love-starved daughter accused of murdering her gigolo lover. Danny's biological architect father comes to the aid of this dysfunctional family. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1965 - The Graduate. (105 minutes) Director: Mike Nichols. Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross. Summary: A young college-aged man, uncertain of his future, is seduced by the mother of a woman he falls in love with.
  • 1965 - Nevada Smith. (135 minutes) Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Martin Landau. [based on Harold Robbins' "The Carpetbaggers"]
  • 1965 - The Sandpiper. (116 minutes) Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: A free-spirited artist, unmarried and raising her son alone in an ocean-view cabin in Monterey, California, becomes involved with a minister, headmaster of a private school. Both are irresistibly drawn to each other, but the affair could cost him his career and his loyal wife. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1967 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. (108 minutes) Director: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway. Summary: Love story between a 37-year old, bright, dedicated research scientist and humanitarian, who happens to be black, and the San Francisco daughter of a well-established, idealistic, progressive parents. The prospective groom informs her parents that he will not marry their daughter without their approval. The groom's parents arrive from Los Angeles and are split on their opinion of whether their son should marry his new girlfriend.
  • 1968 - Shampoo. (112 minutes) Director: Hal Ashby. Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Goldie Hawn, Carrie Fisher. Summary: A Beverly Hills hairdresser enjoys relationships with women.
  • 1968 - . (108 minutes) Director: Tom Gries. Cast: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe, Clifton James, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens. Summary: Follows the life of an illiterate cowboy working in the west in Texas, with friends visiting Kansas City, and a woman and her son attempting to reach her husband in California. [TEXAS; OREGON; KANSAS; MISSOURI; OHIO]
  • 1968 - Yours, Mine and Ours. (111 minutes) Director: Melville Shavelson. Cast: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley. Summary: In San Francisco, a Navy widow nurse with eight children falls in love with and marries a Navy widower with ten children and attempt to create one family.
  • 1969 - Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here. (96 minutes) Director: Abraham Polonsky. Cast: Robert Redford, Robert Blake, Katharine Ross, Susan Clark. Summary: Story from a renegade Pauite Indian's point of view, of a sheriff pursuing him as he flees from arrest in 1909 California.
  • 1971 - Dirty Harry. (102 minutes) Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino. Summary: A San Francisco detective metes out justice his own way.
  • 1971 - Lawman. (98 minutes) Director: Michael Winner. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, Sheree North, Richard Jordan. Summary: U. S. Marshal pursues criminals tracking them down to a California town where nobody helps the marshal. Shows the danger and isolation facing 19th century U. S. marshals. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1972 - Fat City. (96 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell. Summary: Two men live off performing boxing matches in California's Central Valley.
  • 1972 - What's Up, Doc?. (94 minutes) Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal. Summary: Three plaid travelling bags of three different people get mixed up in San Francisco.
  • 1973 - American Graffiti. (110 minutes) Director: George Lucas. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard. Summary: Chronicles the 1962 evening before the morning when two high school graduates are to leave Modesto, California to attend college in the East. Highlights the music of Wolfman Jack, Mel's Drive-In, and the activities of the high school crowd throughout the night. Spawned "Happy Days" on television. [northern California]
  • 1973 - The Way We Were. (118 minutes) Director: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal. Summary: A couple from different backgrounds meet in New York City on a college campus in the 1930s: she, a vocal, Jewish radical with a very ethnic look; he the ultimate handsome genteel WASP. They reunite during World War II when she works in radio and he is a serviceman. Meeting later in life, they marry and move to Hollywood so he can adapt his book to the screen. The Red Scare of the 1940s divides them. Many years later, when they meet again, each having moved on with their lives, they realize they still love each other but their beliefs and lifestyles are very different. [NEW YORK; CALIFORNIA]
  • 1974 - Chinatown. (131 minutes) Director: Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston. Summary: A private investigator starts out investigating spousal infidelity, then mistaken identity and investment schemes, and murder.
  • 1975 - Night Moves. (95 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith. Summary: A Los Angeles private detective must solve a tough mystery.
  • 1976 - Mother, Jugs, and Speed. (95 minutes) Director: Peter Yates. Cast: Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Larry Hagman, Harvey Keitel. Summary: A rundown ambulance service in California is more concerned with volume than care.
  • 1976 - Silver Streak. (113 minutes) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ray Walston, Ned Beatty, Scatman Crothers. Summary: On the Silver Streak train from Los Angeles to Chicago, toss in a male book editor, a female secretary to an art historian, a thief, a few gangsters, and some FBI agents for some romance and murder.
  • 1977 - Same Time Next Year. (117 minutes) Director: Robert Mulligan. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda. Summary: In 1951, a married accountant from New Jersey and a married housewife from California meet at a rural California inn and meet annually every five years until 1977.
  • 1978 - Candleshoe. (101 minutes) Director: Norman Tokar. Cast: Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, David Niven. A street kid from Los Angeles poses as the heir granddaughter of a wealthy woman.
  • 1978 - Coming Home. (127 minutes) Director: Hal Ashby. Cast: Jon Voight, Jane Fonda. Summary: Chronicles the effect of the Vietnam War on a paraplegic veteran, the wife of a gung-ho officer who volunteers as an aide at a verteran's hospital and her gung-ho officer husband.
  • 1978 - Grease. (110 minutes) Director: Randal Kleiser. Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conway, Didi Conn. Summary: A high school senior in 1950s California during the age of rock 'n' roll makes a bet with friends that he will win the heart of a new student whom he met during the summer. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1978 - Hooper. (99 minutes) Director: Hal Needham. Cast: Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Brian Keith, Jan Michael Vincent. Summary: Story about Hollywood stuntmen.
  • 1978 - Moment by Moment. Director: Jane Wagner. Cast: Lily Tomlin, John Travolta, Andra Akers. Summary: A wealthy California woman has an affair with a drifter.
  • 1979 - Escape from Alcatraz. (112 minutes) Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward. Summary: The 1962 break-out from the supposedly perfect California prison.
  • 1979 - The Frisco Kid. (122 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, William Smith, Ramon Bieri, Penny Peyser. Summary: A Polish rabbi assigned a congregation in San Francisco, California, travels through Pennsylvania and across country to California with the help of an outlaw whom he met along the way. [CALIFORNIA/PENNSYLVANIA]
  • 1979 - The Jericho Mile. (104 minutes) Director: Michael Mann. Cast: Peter Strauss, Roger E. Mosley, Richard Lawson, Miguel Pinero. Summary: A prisoner at Folsom Prison in California spends all his time training to be an Olympic runner.
  • 1979 - Kid From Left Field. (100 minutes) Director: Adell Aldrich. Cast: Gary Coleman, Tab Hunter. Summary: A batboy leads the San Diego Padres to victory following the advice of his father, a former baseball great.
  • 1980 - American Gigolo. (117 minutes) Director: Paul Schrader. Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, Bill Duke. Summary: A Los Angeles, well-groomed gigolo falls in love with a politician's wife, is set up as the fall guy in a homicide, is framed for a murder, and has an alibi that doesn't check out. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1980 - The Blue Lagoon. (104 minutes) Director: Randal Kleiser. Cast: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Eva Josephson, Glenn Kohan. Summary: A schooner en route to San Francisco during Victorian times catches fire leaving two young children and the ship's cook adrift in a lifeboat. Reaching shore, they learn to survive against Mother Nature and the natives with the help of the cook who later dies. Years pass and the now grown children are teenagers in love, become parents, and awaiting rescue. [CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC ISLAND]
  • 1981 - Back Roads. (94 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon. Summary: Hitchhikers drift west to California from Mobile, Alabama through Texas. [ALABAMA/CALIFORNIA]
  • 1982 - Cannery Row. (120 minutes) Director: David S. Ward. Cast: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger. [fishing village]
  • 1982 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High. (92 minutes) Director: Amy Heckerling. Cast: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Phoebe Cates. Summary: The loves and lives of students from Southern California's Ridgemont High, most of whom have jobs at the local mall. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1982 - Frances. (140 minutes) Director: Graeme Clifford. Cast: Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Jeffrey DeMunn, Christopher Pennock, Sam Shepard. Summary: Story of Hollywood actress, Frances Farmer.
  • 1984 - Tango and Cash. (104 minutes) Director: Andrei Konchalovsky. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance. Summary: Two rival Los Angeles policemen pursue an international crimelord who has set them up.
  • 1985 - Vertigo. (128 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Summary: A San Francisco detective who has a fear of heights is hired to shadow an old friend's wife with whom he falls in love.
  • 1987 - Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart. (88 minutes) Director: Wayne Wang. Cast: Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Victor Wong. Summary: Tension and affection between a Chinese mother and daughter living in San Francisco's Chinatown.
  • 1987 - Time After Time. (112 minutes) Director: Nicholas Meyer. Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen. Summary: Jack the Ripper is pursued by a time machine into modern-day San Francisco.
  • 1988 - Bagdad Cafe. (91 minutes) Director: Percy Adlon. Cast: Marianne Sagebrecht, C. C. H. Pounder, Jack Palance. Summary: A German businesswoman living in Bagdad, California and the owner of the town's only diner-hotel have a personality and culture clash.
  • 1988 - Grey Fox. (92 minutes) Director: Phillip Borsos. Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Timothy Webber. [Gentleman bandit, Bill Miner, is released from San Quentin Prison after thirty-three years. Knowing only how to rob stagecoaches, he tries to go straight and then recycles his skills to train robbery.
  • 1988 - Little Nikita. (98 minutes) Director: Richard Benjamin. Cast: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava, Richard Bradford. Summary: "Sleeper" Russian agents placed in San Diego twenty years earlier, are activated and tracked down by an FBI agent.
  • 1988 - The Presidio. (97 minutes) Director: Peter Hyams. Cast: Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden. Summary: A police detective bears a grudge against a person he once served under and is assigned to that man, now a military provost marshal at San Francisco's Presidio.
  • 1990 - Come See the Paradise. (135 minutes) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita. Summary: In 1936, Jack McGurn, a hot-blooded Irish-American who has become involved in the fight for unions leaves New York and appears in California. Getting a job as a projectionist in Little Tokyo, he meets, falls in love with, and marries a Japanese-American (Nisei) at the time when World War II began and the Japanese-Americans were sent to the internment camps. [CALIFORNIA/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON]
  • 1990 - Internal Affairs. (115 minutes) Director: Mike Figgis. Cast: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, Richard Bradford. Summary: Dennis Peck knows how to get around the law, because he is a cop. Raymond Avilla is the investigator who is determined to bring Peck to justice, even as Peck threatens Avilla's career, marriage, and sanity. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1990 - Pretty Woman. (117 minutes) Director: Garry Marshall. Cast: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo, Hector Elizondo. Summary: When successful multimillionaire corporate raider from the East coast, Edward Lewis, meets Vivian Ward, a Hollywood Boulevard hooker, they find their two lives are worlds apart. But the time spent in his Beverly Hills penthouse allows Vivien's energetic spirit to challenge Edward's no-nonsense, business-minded approach to life. It sparks an immediate attraction. He teaches her the finer things of life. She teaches him that love could be the best investment he ever made. Is he her Prince Charming? [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1991 - Barton Fink. Cast: John Turturro. Summary: A playwright's misadventures in 1940s Hollywood.
  • 1991 - Biography: Jackie Robinson. (50 minutes) Director: Maurice Paleau. Documentary: Features the memories of Rachel Imus Robinson of her life with Georgia-born and California-raised Jack Roosevelt Robinson who broke the color barrier in baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 under the mentorship of Branch Rickey prior to their move and becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers. [CALIFORNIA/GEORGIA]
  • 1991 - Defending Your Life. (100 minutes) Director: Albert Brooks. Cast: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry. Summary: A Los Angeles advertising executive dies in an automobile accident and finds himself in Judgment City where he must defend his life on Earth.
  • 1991 - Dying Young. (106 minutes) Director: Joel Schumacher. Cast: Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott. Summary: An outgoing young woman with little money goes answers an ad for a caregiver in a San Francisco newspaper. She goes to work for a wealthy, educated man trapped into sickness and isolation by cancer and gives him something to live for.
  • 1991 - Shattered. (106 minutes) Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Cast: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi. Summary: A man wakes up in a hospital remembering nothing of his past. Even though his wife has pictures of them together, something does not feel right. [based on Richard Neely's novel]
  • 1991 - Talent for the Game. (91 minutes) Director: Robert M. Young. Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Jamey Sheridan, Terry Kinney, Jeff Corbett. Summary: When the California Angels baseball team comes under new ownership, one of its scouts is threatened by a job loss when the scouting program is cut . . . unless he finds "a phenom" for his struggling team. Will the pitcher from Idaho fit this bill?
  • 1992 - Basic Instinct. (128 minutes) Director: Paul Verhoeven. Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt. Summary: A San Francisco police officer is seduced by a bisexual heiress suspected of having committed a brutal ice-pick murder. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1992 - Last of His Tribe. (90 minutes) Director: Harry Hook. Cast: Jon Voight, Graham Greene, David Ogden Stiers, Jack Blessing, Anne Archer. Summary: Account of the discovery of Ishi, the Yahi Indian found in 1911 living alone and following his culture who was brought to San Francisco for study by Professor Albert Kroeber.
  • 1992 - Night On Earth. (128 minutes) Director: Jim Jarmusch. Cast: Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Roberto Benigni. Summary: Four episodes about four taxi drivers in four different places (Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Helsinki) at the same time with different passengers.
  • 1992 - Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. (87 minutes) Director: Roger Spottiswoode. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams. Summary: A police officer attempts to survive the visit of his overbearing mother.
  • 1994 - When a Man Loves a Woman. (125 minutes) Director: Luis Mandoki. Cast: Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Ellen Burstyn, Tina Majorino, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Summary: A San Francisco couple's marriage falls apart as the guidance counselor wife relies too much on alcohol leaving her airline pilot husband to run the home. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1995 - Dogfight. (95 minutes) Director: Nancy Savoca. Cast: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, Anthony Clark, Mitchell Whitfield, Holly Near. Summary: A group of marines run an "ugly date" contest the night before they leave for Vietnam.
  • 1995 - Muholland Falls. (107 minutes) Director: Lee Tamahori. Cast: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palmintari, Christopher Penn. Summary: The Hat Squad, a group of 4 Los Angeles detectives, rid the city of mobsters.
  • 1996 - Dear God. (112 minutes) Director: Garry Marshall. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Laura Metcalf, Maira, Pitillo, Tim Conway, Hector Elizondo, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jon Seda. Summary: When a California con-artist is givin the opportunity by the criminal justice system to get a job for one year or go to jail, he gets a job with the postal service and gets involved with helping others by answering "Dear God" letters.
  • 1996 - The Fan. (120 minutes) Director: Tony Scott. Cast: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Benicio Del Toro. Summary: A traveling knife salesman is affected when his favorite baseball player goes into a slump.
  • 1996 - Get on the Bus. (121 minutes) Director: Spike Lee. Cast: Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher, Isaiah Washington, Ossie Davis. Summary: A varied group of black men from Los Angeles travel by bus to Washington, D. C. to attend the Million Louis Farrakhan's Man March. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1996 - The Rock. (125 minutes) Director: Michael Bay. Cast: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe, John Spencer. Summary: Incidents at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco
  • 1998 - Hump-Free, the Wrong Way Whale. (15 minutes) [1985 journey to San Francisco up the Sacramento River]
  • 1998 - Parent Trap. (124 minutes) Director: Nancy Meyers. Cast: Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Lindsay Lohan, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter, Simon Kunz. Summary: Twin sisters separated as toddlers when their parents divorced with one sister growing up in England with her mother and the other growing up in California with her father meet at summer camp, realize they are sisters, switch places to meet the other parent, and try to get their parents to reunite. [see: 1961 version]
  • 1999 - Anywhere But Here. (114 minutes) Director: Wayne Wang. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman. Summary: A mother moves her daughter to Los Angeles where their personalities seem opposite, but deep down they are two of a kind. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 1999 - The Mod Squad. (94 minutes) Director: Scott Silver. Cast: Claire Danes, Omar Epps, Giovanni Ribisi. Summary: Three Los Angeles problem teens on their way to jail for crimes are recruited by a captain to do undercover police work for him. [LOS ANGELES]
  • 2000 - What's Cooking?. (106 minutes) Director: Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Dennis Haysbert, Alfre Woodard, Joan Chen, Mercedes Ruehl, Lainie Kazan, Maury Chaykin, Kyra Sedgwick, Julianna Margulies. Summary: Four extended Los Angeles families living in a city block and representing African American, Jewish, Latino, and Vietnamese cultures meet for Thanksgiving. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 2001 - Crazy/Beautiful. (99 minutes) Director: John Stockwell. Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Lucinda Jenney, Taryn Manning, Bruce Davison. Summary: An Hispanic American man from East Los Angeles, intent on attending the Naval Academy, is a high-achieving, grade A pupil who is involved with a confused Caucasian girl whose father happens to be the congressman from whom he needs sponsorship for the Academy. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 2001 - The Deep End. (101 minutes) Director: Scott McGehee and David Siegel. Cast: Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Raymond Barr, Josh Lucas. Summary: Suspense story of a mother attempting to protect her son from his lover. [based on the 1940s novel by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding] [CALIFORNIA]
  • 2001 - Follow the Stars Home. (95 minutes) Director: Dick Lowry. Cast: Kimberly Williams, Blair Brown, Campbell Scott, Eric Close. Summary: A birth impairment to the daughter of a California woman causes the break-up of her marriage and the determination to give her daughter quality parenting. [based on a novel by Luanne Rice] [CALIFORNIA]
  • 2001 - Life As A House. (124 minutes) Director: Irwin Winkler. Cast: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Jena Malone, Mary Steenburgen. Summary: A divorced California architect who lives in a rundown house inherited from his father faces life changes when he loses his job and fights cancer while trying tearing down that house and building his dream house with neighbors and family.
  • 2001 - Legally Blonde. (96 minutes) Director: Robert Luketic. Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Matthew Davis, Selma Blair. Summary: To prove herself "worthy" of her boyfriend's family, a Malibu sorority/fashion degree girl studies for and passes the LSAT, is accepted to Harvard Law School, and, with her Chihuahua, develops friendships, sticks to her ethics of loyalty and compassion, and follows her path to a law degree. [CALIFORNIA; MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 2001 - The Majestic. (153 minutes) Director: Frank Darabout. Cast: Jim Carrey.
  • 2002 - By Dawn's Early Light. (104 minutes) Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman. Cast: Richard Crenna, David Carradine, Chris Olivero. Summary: A Los Angeles teenager is forced to spend a portion of his summer vacation with the Colorado cattleman maternal grandfather whom he has not seen for many years when his wealthy parents go on a cruise. Having nothing in common with his grandson who is moody, unliked by all, and wants to go home to California, the grandfather goes with him on an 800 mile journey across the Colorado Mountains to the Pacific Ocean on horseback broadening his grandson's self-centered, materialistic, physical, emotional, and civic behaviors. [COLORADO; CALIFORNIA]
  • 2002 - 40 Days and 40 Nights. (95 minutes) Director: Michael Lehmann. Cast: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Vinessa Shaw, Paulo Costanzo, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Summary: A San Francisco website designer, after being dumped by his girlfriend, gives up sex for Lent, meets a woman in the laundromat and pursues a platonic relationship because he does not tell her of his vow of abstinence. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 2002 - Hard Lessons. (94 minutes) Cast: Denzell Washington, Lynn Whitfield.
  • The Other Sister. (130 minutes) Director: Garry Marshall. Cast: Juliette Lewis, Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt, Giovanni Ribisi. Summary: In San Francisco, a young woman attempts to experience social growth, independent living, and maturity in the real world in the framework of her nurturing and protective family.
  • 2002 - Tortilla Soup. (104 minutes) Director: Maria Ripoli. Cast: Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Paul Rodriguez, Constance Marie, Joel Joan, Nikolai Kinski, Rachel Welch. Summary: A light comedy centered about the senses of food and family. Martin, a culinary genius, raised three adult daughters and prefers to guide their lives. Each daughter seeks her independence and the father grows along with his daughters. [California}
  • 2003 - Gigli. (121 minutes) Director: Martin Brest. Cast: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha. Summary: A hoodlum who hires a small-time California hood known for incompetence to kidnap the mentally-challenged brother of a Federal prosecutor partners him with a tough lesbian hit person to focus him. [CALIFORNIA]
  • 2003 - Mona Lisa Smile. ( minutes) Director: Mike Newell. Cast: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Summary: In 1953, a California university college professor accepts a position as art history professor at Wellesley College, a woman's college in Massachusetts, attempting to bring her brand of interpreting life to the women who were preparing for the life of wife, mother, and business supporters to their prospective husbands. Learning about life and romance surface for all. [MASSACHUSETTS; CALIFORNIA]
  • 2003 - Under the Tuscan Sun. (113 minutes) Director: Audrey Wells. Cast: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Vincent Riotta, Mario Monicelli. Summary: Frances Mayes, a San Francisco just-divorced writer, on a whim, buys and restores a villa in Tuscany, Italy while on a trip hoping to give her life a second chance. [CALIFORNIA; ITALY]
  • 2005 - Coach Carter. (136 minutes) Director: Thomas Carter. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ri'chard, Rob Brown, Ashanti, Debbi Morgan. Summary: Based on the true story of California high school basketball coach, Ken Carter, who turned his team around by stressing studying and athleticism. [California]
COLORADO
  • 1940 - The Return of Frank James. (92 minutes) Director: Fritz Lang. Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Donald Meek, John Carradine, Jackie Cooper, J. Edward Bromberg, Henry Hull. Summary: Frank James avenges the death of his brother Jesse. [COLORADO]
  • 1950 - Winchester '73. (82 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Will Geer, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, John McIntire. Summary: A cowboy gets a new Winchester '73 from the East, loses it to a thief and tracks it down from owner to owner. [COLORADO]
  • 1964 - The Unsinkable Molly Brown. (135 minutes) Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell.
  • 1965 - The Hallelujah Trail. (167 minutes) Director: John Sturges. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jim Hutton, Lee Remick, Martin Landau.
  • 1972 - Buck and the Preacher. (102 minutes) Director: Sidney Poitier. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell. Summary: After the Civil War, freed slaves sought new lives out West but others tried to get them to return to Louisiana. An ex-Union Army Calvary sergeant leads freed slaves to the Colorado territory and meets a lack preacher. [LOUISIANA/COLORADO]
  • 1980 - The Shining. (179 minutes) Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers. Summary: A struggling writer takes a job as caretaker at a summer resort hotel during the winter season.
  • 1988 - Vanishing Point. (107 minutes) Director: Richard Sarafian. Cast: Barry Newman, Dean Jogger, Cleavon Little. Summary: Focuses on a wager to get from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours
  • 1989 - Wait Until Spring, Bandini. (102 minutes) Director: Dominque Deruddere. Cast: Joe Mantegna, Ornella Muti, Faye Dunaway, Burt Young, Daniel Wilson. Summary: An immigrant family in the 1920s tries to beat the odds in Colorado. [based on a John Fante novel]
  • 1993 - Cliffhanger. (113 minutes) Director: Renny Harlen. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Janine Turner, Ralph Waite. Summary: In the Rocky Mountains, a mountain climber goes after his girlfriend who is captured by criminals who are seeking the money they lost in the Rockies.
  • 1997 - Centennial. (2 hours 58 minutes) [Based on James Michener's novel]
  • 2002 - By Dawn's Early Light. (104 minutes) Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman. Cast: Richard Crenna, David Carradine, Chris Olivero. Summary: A Los Angeles teenager spends a portion of his summer vacation with his Colorado cattleman grandfather whom he has not seen for many years when his wealthy parents go on a cruise. Having nothing in common with his grandson who wants to go home to California, the grandfather goes on an 800 mile journey across the Colorado Mountains to the Pacific Ocean on horseback broadening his self-centered and materialistic grandson's physical, emotional, and civic behaviors. [COLORADO; CALIFORNIA]
CONNECTICUT
  • - Murder in a Small Town. (100 minutes) Director: Joyce Chopra. Cast: Gene Wilder, Mike Starr, Cherry Jones, Frances Conroy.

  • 1931 - Connecticut Yankee. (96 minutes) Director: David Butler. Cast: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Myrna Loy. Summary: Based on Mark Twain's 1889 fantasy of a man transported to the times of King Arthur.
  • 1933 - Dr. Bull. Director: John Ford. Cast: Will Rogers, Vera Allen. Summary: New Winton, Connecticut.
  • 1936 - Theodora Goes Wild. (94 minutes) Director: Richard Boleslawski. Cast: Irene Dunne, Thomas Mitchell, Melvyn Doublas. Summary: In Lynnfield, CT. [based on a Mary McCarthy short story]
  • 1938 - Bringing Up Baby. (102 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Ruggles, May Robson. Summary: An absent-minded museum professor, about to be married, hopes to received one million dollars from a philanthropist. While he awaits the arrival of a missing dinosaur bone from an archaeological dig, he meets a rich girl with a leopard who gets both of them into comical situations. [NEW YORK/CONNECTICUT]
  • 1945 - Christmas in Connecticut. (101 minutes) Director: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Reginald Gardiner, Sydney Greenstreet. Summary: For publicity, a family-advice columnist arranges a phony family for herself.
  • 1946 - The Stranger. (95 minutes) Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles, Konstantin Shayne, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Philip Merivale, Byran Keith, Billy House. Summary: After World War II, a Nazi war criminal settles in the college town of Harper, Connecticut, assumes a new identity, and when the film begins, marries. Another war criminal tracks him down and suffers at his hand. Covering up his deeds becomes necessary when a government agent tracks him down.
  • 1948 - Winter Meeting. (115 minutes) Director: Bretaigne Windust. Cast: Bette Davis, Jim Davis, Janis Paige, John Hoyt, Florence Bates. Music: Max Steiner Summary: A spinsterish writer falls in love with a World War II hero who reciprocates but reveals that he desires to become a priest. [NEW YORK; CONNECTICUT]
  • 1949 - Come to the Stable. Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez. Summary: Two sisters come to Connecticut with the dreams of building a children's hospital to fulfill a promise made to God for saving a hospital from being destroyed during World War II. [CONNECTICUT]
  • 1955 - All That Heaven Allows. (89 minutes) Director: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Morehead. Summary: A suburban widow is courted by a young gardener.
  • 1968 - Rachel, Rachel. (101 minutes) Director: Paul Newman. Cast: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons.
  • 1988 - Beetlejuice. (93 minutes) Director: Tim Burton. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Jeffrey Jones, Chatherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder. Summary: A family moves into the Connecticut farmhouse of a couple who accidently drowned but returned to their farmhouse as novice ghosts and upon aesthetically destroying the house force the ghosts to call upon the evil Betelgeuse for help.
  • 1988 - Courage of Sarah Noble. (49 minutes) [Alice Dalgliesh book]
  • 1988 - Mystic Pizza. (101 minutes) Director: Donald Petrie. Cast: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, William R. Moses. Summary: Coming-of-age picture focusing on three women, two sisters and a friend, who work at a pizza parlour in the resort town of Mystic, Connecticut.
  • 1989 - Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (95 minutes) Cast: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Jean Marsh, Emma Samms. Summary: Based on Mark Twain's 1889 fantasy of a man transported to the times of King Arthur.
  • 1989 - Jacknife. (102 minutes) Director: David Jones. Cast: Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, Kathy Baker. Summary: A veteran living with his biology-teacher sister in Connecticut suffers from post-Vietnam stress syndrome and is helped by a Vietnam buddy to face his war experiences and the death of a buddy.
  • 1992 - Christmas in Connecticut. (93 minutes) Director: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cast: Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson, Tony Curtis, Richard Roundtree. Summary: For publicity, a family-advice columnist arranges a phony family for herself.
  • 1996 - Homecoming. (105 minutes) Director: Mark Jean. Cast: Anne Bancroft, Kimberlee Peterson, Trever O'Brien, Hanna Hall, William Greenblatt, Bonnie Bedelia.
  • 1996 - White Squall. (127 minutes) Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, Scott Wolf, John Savage, Balthazar Getty. Summary: Told from the point of view of a Connecticut senior who along with twelve other high school students, has elected to spend the 1960-61 academic year on board the American schoolship Albatross sailing around the world as they learned about sailing and unity from their captain. They mature personally and test their courage and survival skills when they unexpectedly meet a white squall, a sudden, violent, wind-and-lightning storm. [CONNECTICUT]
  • 1999 - Amistad. (152 minutes) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Stellan Skarsgard, Matthew McConaughey, Anna Paquin, David Paymer. Summary: Cinque and other recent African Bozal captives aboard the Amistad, traveling from one side of Cuba to the other, mutiny, kill the captain, and attempt to sail back to Africa, but end up washing ashore in Connecticut and later being on trial represented by John Quincy Adams. Were they slaves or not? Are they murderers or merely defending themselves?
  • 1999 - Outside Providence. Cast: Shawn Hatosy. Summary: A blue-collar teenage boy is sent to a prep school in Connecticut and struggles to fit in after a run-in with the local police sent him there.
DELAWARE
  • 1999 - The Crossing. (100 minutes) Cast: Jeff Daniels. Focuses on Washington's crossing of the Delaware River in December, 1776. [based on a Howard Fast novel]
FLORIDA
  • 1934 - It Happened One Night. (105 minutes) Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Ward Bond. Summary: A reporter follows a runaway heiress to Florida from New York and falls in love with her.
  • 1946 - The Yearling. (134 minutes) Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman. Summary: A young boy loves a pet fawn that his father must kill. [based on the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel]
  • 1948 - Key Largo. (101 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore. Summary: Hoodlums running from the law hold hostages with a variety of experiences in a run-down hotel in the Florida Keys.
  • 1960 - Where the Boys Are. (99 minutes) Director: Henry Levin. Cast: Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Jim Hutton, Yvette Mimieux, Connie Francis. Summary: The college students' annual spring break/Easter pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale, Florida seeking instant gratification through sex and fun. [FLORIDA]
  • 1974 - The Longest Yard. ("The Mean Machine") (122 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad. Summary: A warden wants his prison guard semi-pro football team to play against a prisoner team and asks a former quarterback prisoner to set up and coach the prisoner team.
  • 1977 - Black Sunday. (minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer: Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern. Summary: An Arabic terrorist group plans to kill the President of the United States and spectators at a Super Bowl game at Miami's Orange Bowl.
  • 1981 - Body Heat. (113 minutes) Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, Mickey Rourke. Summary: A Florida attorney is maneuvered by the wife of a wealthy and dishonest businessman with whom he is having an affair to kill her husband. [FLORIDA]
  • 1983 - Cross Creek. (122 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard, Peter Coyote. Summary: Focuses on the life of author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • 1984 - Flash of Green. (118 minutes) Director: Victor Nunez. Cast: Ed Harris. Summary: A bored Florida reporter helps a county official get approved for a housing project. [based on a John D. MacDonald novel]
  • 1985 - Stick. (109 minutes) Director: Burt Reynolds. Cast: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, George Segal, Candice Bergen. Summary: An ex-convict seeks revenge against the drug underworld in South Florida.
  • 1988 - Running on Empty. (116 minutes) Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton. Summary: Picks up with the life fourteen years later in Florida and then New Jersey of a married couple who wanted to make a difference by being involved in a 1970s bombing of a napalm lab at the University of Massachusetts, who had to go undercover moving from state to state but were being pursued by the FBI, and shows the effects of not planting roots in the lives of their two sons from constant moving, change of identities, lack of extended family. Acceptance of one son to Juilliard School of Music changes their lives.
  • 1992 - Cocoon. (117 minutes) Director: Ron Howard. Cast: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon. [senior citizens in a Florida old age home get a chance to be forever young]
  • 1992 - Crisscross. (100 minutes) Director: Chris Menges. Cast: Goldie Hawn, David Arnott, Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine. Summary: A 12-year old boy in 1969 Florida finds out the secret about his mother's nighttime job.
  • 1994 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. (85 minutes) Director: Tom Shadyac. Cast: Jim Carrey, Sean Young, Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Dan Marino. Summary: A Florida detective cracks missing animal cases and focuses on the missing mascot for the Miami Dolphins and their quarterback prior to the Super Bowl.
  • 1994 - The Yearling. Cast: Peter Strauss, Jean Smart. Summary: A young boy loves a pet fawn that his father must kill. [based on the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel]
  • 1996 - The Birdcage. (La Cage aux Folles) (118 minutes) Director: Mike Nichols. Cast: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Christine Baranski. Summary: A straight son plans to marry a senator's daughter and brings her and his future in-laws for a visit to gay parents who pretend to be straight to fool the senator.
  • 1996 - Rosewood. (140 minutes) Director: John Singleton. Cast: Jon Voight, Esther Rolle. Summary: In 1923, when a white woman in Sumner, Florida claims to have been beaten by a black man, the community organizes a lynching party against the residents of Rosewood, Florida, a black community.
  • 1996 - Up Close & Personal. (124 minutes) Director: Jon Avnet. Cast: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan, Glenn Plummer. Summary: Based on the life of newsperson Jessica Savitch's rise in television from Miami, Florida to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her mentor/husband. [FLORIDA/PENNSYLVANIA]
  • 1997 - Chessie, the Travelin' Man. (25 minutes)
  • 1997 - Gone Fishin'. (94 minutes) Director: Christopher Cain. Cast: Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield. Summary: Two Newark close friends-from-childhood experience adventures that could rarely happen to anybody else on their annual fishing trip prior to Thanksgiving . . this year in Florida. [FLORIDA/NEW JERSEY]
  • 1997 - Ulee's Gold. (113 minutes) Director: Victor Nunez. Cast: Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson. Summary: When his family needs his help, an aging Florida beekeeper comes out of his emotional shell.
  • 1999 - Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story. (93 minutes) Director: John Korty. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ed Marinaro, John Bourgeois, Dan MacDonald, Elden Henson. Summary: True story of a 17-year-old prospective high school football player who must decide whether his ailing grandmother will receive one of his kidneys.
  • 2000 - Snow Dogs. (99 minutes) Director: Brian Levant. Cast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., James Coburn, Joanna Bacalso, Nichelle Nichols, M. Emmet Walsh. Summary: When a Miami dentist inherits an Alaskan sled dog team, he goes to Alaska, finds friction with a local man who wants that team, and participates in a sled dog race. [ALASKA/FLORIDA]
  • 2006 - In Her Shoes. (130 minutes) Director: Curtis Hanson. Cast: Cameron Diaz, Anson Mount, Toni Collette, Richard Burgi, Candice Azzara, Brooke Smith, John Mastrangelo, Sr., Emilio Mignucci, Mark Feuerstein. Summary: Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends up betraying Rose's trust. Maggie sets off for Florida to find the grandmother. A failed workplace romance forces Rose to rethink her career, a career that has been the center of her life. As Rose tentatively begins a new relationship and Maggie gets to know her grandmother, the two learn a dark family secret that helps smooth the path toward reconciliation.
GEORGIA
  • 1933 - Emperor Jones. (73 minutes) Director: Dudley Murphy. Cast: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson, Fredi Washington. Summary: A Georgia Pullman porter kills a man, is sent to a chain gang, escapes to a Caribbean island on a ship, and becomes emperor of the island only to be deposed and killed. [GEORGIA]
  • 1939 - Gone With the Wind. (222 minutes) Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Clark Cable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Haviland, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel. Summary: The life and loves of Scarlett O'Hara beginning on her family's plantation in Georgia, Tara, in antebellum days, through the Civil War, and Reconstruction. [based on the Margaret Mitchell novel] [GEORGIA]
  • 1950 - The Jackie Robinson Story. (76 minutes) Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers. Summary: Autobiography of Georgia-born and California-raised Jack Roosevelt Robinson who broke the color barrier in baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 under the mentorship of Branch Rickey. [CALIFORNIA/GEORGIA]
  • 1953 - Member of the Wedding. (91 minutes) Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Julie Harris, Ethel Waters, Brandon de Wilde. Summary: A 12-year old Georgian girl accompanies her brother and sister-in-law on their honeymoon. [GEORGIA]
  • 1955 - Queen Bee. (95 minutes) Director: Ranald MacDougall. Cast: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow. Summary: A woman arrives in Atlanta to visit her female cousin. Her cousin's brother is married to an overly charming, controlling woman. Conflict arises. [GEORGIA]
  • 1958 - Gold's Little Acre. (110 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise, Jack Lord, Fay Spain, Buddy Hackett, Michael Landon. Summary: Focuses on the experiences of an itinerant poor Georgian farmer. [based on an Erskine Caldwell novel] [GEORGIA]
  • 1970 - The Andersonville Trial. (150 minutes) Director: George C. Scott. Cast: Martin Sheen, William Shatner, Buddy Ebsen, Richard Basehart, Cameron Mitchell, Jack Cassidy. Summary: What really went on at the Confederate Andersonville prison during the Civil War? [GEORGIA]
  • 1972 - Deliverance. (109 minutes) Director: John Boorman. Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, James Dickey. Summary: In Georgia, a weekend canoe trip of men friends down a dangerous river that begins as a holiday, turns into a horrific experience. [GEORGIA]
  • 1976 - Displaced Person. (58 minutes) Director: Glenn Jordan. Cast: John Houseman, Irene Worth, Shirley Stoler. Summary: A 1940s Polish refugee and his family try to fit onto a Georgia farm. [GEORGIA]
  • 1985 - Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom. Cast: Melba Moore, Ned Beatty. [GEORGIA]
  • 1985 - The Color Purple. (130 minutes) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey. Summary: The growth of a mistreated black woman from 1909 - 1947. [based on the Alice Walker novel] [GEORGIA]
  • 1985 - The Slugger's Wife. (105 minutes) Director: Hal Ashby. Cast: Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca DeMornay, Martin Ritt, Randy Quaid, Cleavant Derricks. Summary: An Atlanta Braves baseball player pursues and marries an up-and-coming rock star and does not give her any space to be herself causing her to follow her career. [GEORGIA]
  • 1986 - As Summers Die. (87 minutes) Director: Jean-Claude Tramont. Cast: Scott Glenn, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, Beah Richards. Summary: In 1959, Georgia, an oil land dispute surfaces with a black woman. [GEORGIA]
  • 1990 - Sudie and Simpson. (95 minutes) Director: Joan Tewkesbury. Cast: Lou Gossett, Jr., Sara Gilbert, Frances Fisher, John Jackson. Summary: A lesson in understanding and prejudice in a 1940s Georgia town as we follow the lives of Simpson and Sudie. [GEORGIA]
  • 1991 - Decoration Day. (81 minutes) Director: Robert Markowitz. Cast: James Garner, Judith Ivey, Bill Cobbs, Ruby Dee, Laurence Fishburne. Summary: A recently widowed and retired Georgian judge gets involved in the lives of the son of his boyhood friend and his boyhood friend who refuses to accept the Congressional Medal of Honor for WWII bravery after 30 years. [based on a John William Corrington novel] [GEORGIA]
  • 1991 - Biography: Jackie Robinson. (50 minutes) Director: Maurice Paleau. Documentary: Features the memories of Rachel Imus Robinson of her life with Georgia-born and California-raised Jack Roosevelt Robinson who broke the color barrier in baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 under the mentorship of Branch Rickey. [CALIFORNIA/GEORGIA]
  • 1992 - Daughters of the Dust. (113 minutes) Director: Julie Dash. Cast: Adisa Anderson, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Cora Lee Day. Summary: In 1902 on one of the sea islands off Georgia and North Carolina, a ceremony is taking place before an African-American family moves North. [GEORGIA]
  • 1992 - A League of Their Own. (118 minutes) Director: Penny Marshall. Cast: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, Jon Lovitz, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, Rosie O'Donnell, Tracy Reiner, Bill Pullman. Summary: The first women's professional baseball league during World War II with a focus on two sisters on the same team. [GEORGIA]
  • 1994 - Justice in a Small Town. Cast: Kate Jackson, John Shea. Summary: True story of two civil servants who reveal corruption in the Georgia Department of Labor. [GEORGIA]
  • 1996 - Andersonville. (168 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Jarrod Emrick, Frederic Forrest, William H. Macy, Jan Triska, Ted Marcoux. Summary: A focus on August, 1864 in Andersonville, Georgia. [GEORGIA]
  • 1997 - What the Deaf Man Heard. (98 minutes) Director: John Kent Harrison. Cast: Matthew Modine, James Earl Jones, Bernadette Peters, Tom Skerrit, Judith Ivey. Summary: A young boy traveling with his single-parent mother is abandoned on a bus bound for a Georgia town when his mother is abducted and killed at a bus rest stop. He reaches Barrington, at the end of the line, and blocks himself off from the world by feigning deafness and speach for twenty years until something he hears forces him to speak. [GEORGIA]
  • 2000 - The Gift. (111 minutes) Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi. Summary: A recently widowed psychic of three sons in the South uses her visions to convict the wrong killer. [ALABAMA or GEORGIA]
  • 2000 - The Runaway. (98 minutes) Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman. Cast: Dean Cain, Duane McLachlin, Cody Newton, Maya Angelou. Summary: A conjure woman predicts that two boys - - one white and one black - - will bring "change" in rural Georgia during the 1940s.
  • 2001 - The Wishing Tree. (102 minutes) Director: Ivan Passer. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Helen Shaver, Mary Alice, Blair Underwood. Summary: A business-oriented Atlanta attorney returns home to Savannah to attend her mother's funeral and is taken in by the storytelling heritage of her roots. [GEORGIA]
HAWAII
  • 1940 - It's A Date. (103 minutes) Director: William A. Seiter. Cast: Deanna Durbin, Walter Pidgeon, Kay Francis, Eugene Pallette. Summary: A teenage woman competes for the love of a man against her mother. [HAWAII]
  • 1942 - Song of the Islands. (75 minutes) Director: Walter Lang. Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell, Hilo Hattie. Summary: The daughter of an Irish beachcomber living on a tiny Hawaiian island returns after three years at school, performs for guests at a celebratory luau. A handsome playboy whose father owns a cattle ranch on the island falls in love with her, thinking she is a native girl. Wanting to own the property of the beachcomber brings conflict to the cattle rancher. [HAWAII]
  • 1953 - From Here to Eternity. (118 minutes) Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine. Summary: The demands of military life just prior to entrance of the United States into World War II. [HAWAII]
  • 1960 - Strangers When We Meet. (117 minutes) Director: Richard Quine. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Barbara Rush, Ernie Kovacs. Summary: Unhappily married Larry Coe, a gifted architect, falls in love with his beautiful neighbor Maggie, whose marriage is also on the rocks. Will their passion end when Coe moves his family to Hawaii, working for a building commission? [HAWAII]
  • 1963 - Diamond Head. (107 minutes) Director: Guy Green Cast: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen, James Darren. Summary: A Hawaiian plantation boss almost ruins his family as we study a mixed-blood romance between a Caucasian and a Hawaiian. [HAWAII]
  • 1965 - In Harm's Way. (167 minutes) Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Paula Prentiss, Henry Fonda, Tom Tryon, Brandon de Wilde, Dana Andrews. Summary: The United States Navy combats the Japanese during World War II. [HAWAII]
  • 1966 - Hawaii. Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Julie Andrews, Max Von Sydow, Richard Harris. Summary: Contact of the natives of 1820s Hawaii with Christian westerners and their cultures. [HAWAII]
  • 1970 - Tora! Tora! Tora!. (144 minutes) Director: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore, Jason Robards. Summary: A collaborative effort of the U.S. and Japan to explain the events up to and including the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. [HAWAII]
  • 1987 - Blue Hawaii. (101 minutes) Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury, Iris Adrian. Summary: A returning U. S. soldier works with tourists in Hawaii. [HAWAII]
  • 1991 - December 7th: The Movie. (82 minutes) Director: John Ford, Greg Toland. Cast: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport. Summary: An Oscar documentary using actual spliced footage of the events of December 7, 1941. [HAWAII]
  • 1998 - Hump-Free, the Wrong Way Whale. (15 minutes) Summary: Tells of the 1985 journey to San Francisco up the Sacramento River of a whale that was off course. [HAWAII]
  • 1999 - Johnny Tsunami. Cast: Brandon Baker, Lee Thompson Young. Summary: The family of a 13-year old Hawaiian surfer moves to a ski resort and college town in Vermont where the father will work at a private school. [VERMONT/HAWAII]
  • 2002 - Lilo and Stitch. (85 minutes) Voices: Angela Lansbury. [HAWAII]
IDAHO
  • 1998 - Smoke Signals. (89 minutes) Director: Chris Eyre. Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Tantoo Cardinal, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer. Summary: Two young men leave the Coeur D'Alene Reservation in Idaho traveling to Phoenix, Arizona to pick up the remains and possessions of one of their recently deceased fathers. [IDAHO]
ILLINOIS
  • 1931 - The Front Page. (99 minutes) Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton. Summary: In 1920s Chicago, a newspaper editor and his ace reporter fight corruption. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1939 - Young Mr. Lincoln. (100 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek, Richard Cronwell, Eddie Quillan, Milburn Stone, Ward Bond. Summary: Life of Abraham Lincoln of Ohio. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1940 - Abe Lincoln in Illinois. (110 minutes) Director: John Cromwell. Cast: Raymond Massey. [based on a Robert Sherwood play] [ILLINOIS]
  • 1940 - Knute Rockne: All American. (74 minutes) Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Gale Page. Summary: Life of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's football coach. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1941 - Tom, Dick, and Harry. (86 minutes) Director: Garson Kanin. Cast: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith, Phil Silvers. Summary: Dreaming of money and riches, which eligible bachelor will spice up the humdrum life of telephone operator, Janie. Will it be her steady boyfriend, Tom, the car salesman; Harry, the mechanic; or Dick, the millionaire just returned from living in New York City? [CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK]
  • 1948 - Call Northside 777. (111 minutes) Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Helen Walker, Betty Grable. Summary: A Chicago reporter investigates the 11-year old murder of a policeman and the possible incorrect life sentence verdict for an innocent man. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1956 - The Rainmaker. (121 minutes) Director: Joseph Anthony. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman, Wallace Ford, Cameron Prud'homme. Summary: Based on N. Richard Nash's play telling of the drought in soutwestern United States and how a smooth-talking con man promises rain for a price. [IDAHO mentioned; southwestern United States not identified]
  • 1961 - Raisin in the Sun. (128 minutes) Director: Daniel Petrie. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee. Summary: A black apartment-living family seeks a better life by purchasing a home in a white neighborhood. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1971 - Brian's Song. (74 minutes) Director: Buzz Kulik. Cast: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Shelley Fabares. Summary: The competition between Chicago Bears' running back Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers which led to a friendship ending with Brian's death by cancer. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1974 - The Front Page. (105 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Charles Durning, Herb Edelman, Vincent Gardenia, Harold Gould, Susan Sarandon, David Wayne. Summary: The story of newspaper reporters and a prison escapee. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1975 - Cooley High. (107 minutes) Director: Michael Schultz. Cast: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers. Summary: Two teenagers in 1964 Chicago skip high school one day and fall in love. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1976 - Silver Streak. (113 minutes) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ray Walston, Ned Beatty, Scatman Crothers. Summary: On the Silver Streak train from Los Angeles to Chicago, toss in a male book editor, a female secretary to an art historian, a thief, a few gangsters, and some FBI agents for some romance and murder. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1978 - Days of Heaven. (95 minutes) Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz. Summary: A steel mill worker living in the slums of Chicago, takes his girl friend and his young sister to work during harvest time in the Texas Panhandle wheat fields. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1980 - The Blues Brothers. (132 minutes) Director: John Landis. Cast: John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, John Candy, Carrie Fisher. Summary: The Blues Brothers, musicians in Chicago, try to save an orphanage. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1981 - Skokie. (121 minutes) Director: Herbert Wise. Cast: Danny Kaye, Brian Dennehy, Eli Wallach, Kim Hunter, Carl Reiner. Summary: In the late 1970s, the predominantly Jewish Skokie, Illinois is threatened by neo-Nazism. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1983 - Bad Boys. (109 minutes) Director: Rick Rosenthal. Cast: Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Jim Moody, Eric Gurry, Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy. Summary: Two Chicago young men vow to kill each other in prison. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1983 - Risky Business. (99 minutes) Director: Paul Brickman. Cast: Tom Cruise, Rebecca DeMornay, Curtis Armstrong, Bronson Pinchot, Raphael Sbarge, Nicholas Pryor, Richard Masur. Summary: When his parents go on vacation, a young man cuts loose, hires a hooker, and has a house party. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1985 - Breakfast Club. (100 minutes) Director: John Hughes. Cast: Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall. Summary: During weekend detention class, a group of high school misfits get to be friends. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1985 - Code of Silence. (102 minutes) Director: Andrew Davis. Cast: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Dennis Farina, Mike Genovese. Summary: A Chicago policeman takes on the mob and corrupt police officers. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off. (104 minutes) Director: John Hughes. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen, Cindy Pickett, Lyman Ward. Summary: A high school boy pretends to be ill in order to have the day off. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1986 - Pretty in Pink. (96 minutes) Director: Howard Deutch. Cast: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, Andrew McCarthy, James Spader. Summary: A young girl from a low-income part of Chicago mets a well-to-do guy, causing her childhood friend to become jealous. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1986 - Native Son. (101 minutes) Director: Jerrold Freedman. Cast: Victor Love, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth McGovern, Matt Dillon, Oprah Winfrey, Akosua Busia, Carroll Baker, Art Evans, David Rasche, Lane Smith, John McMartin. Summary: In 1940s Chicago, a poor 19-year-old black man gets a job working for a wealthy white family whose daughter, a follower of the communist party, befriends him and tragically dies at his hands causing a trial. [CHICAGO, ILLINOIS]
  • 1986 - No Mercy. (107 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger. Summary: A Chicago cop travels to New Orleans to avenge the murder of his partner. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1986 - Raw Deal. (107 minutes) Director: John Irvin. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Darren McGavin, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Steven Hill. Summary: A former FBI agent is recruited to infiltrate the Chicago mob. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1986 - Running Scared. (107 minutes) Director: Peter Hyams. Cast: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel, Joe Pantoliano, Jimmy Smits. Summary: Chicago detectives are after a drug dealer. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1987 - The Untouchables. (119 minutes) Director: Brian De Palma. Cast: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Billy Drago, Richard Bradford. Summary: In Prohibition-era Chicago, Federal agent Eliot Ness seeks Al Capone. [based on a David Mamet script] [ILLINOIS]
  • 1989 - When Harry Met Sally. (95 minutes) Director: Rob Reiner. Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby. Summary: Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry and Sally debate as recent University of Chicago graduates traveling to New York City during their first meeting and for the next eleven years. [NEW YORK; ILLINOIS]
  • 1991 - Curly Sue. (98 minutes) Director: John Hughes. Cast: James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alison Porter, John Getz. Summary: A homeless father-daughter scam duo against a female attorney.
  • 1991 - Only the Lonely. (110 minutes) Director: Chris Columbus. Cast: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Quinn, James Belushi, Milo O'Shea, Macaulay Culkin. Summary: A 38-year old Chicago bachelor police officer lives with his widowed mother, falls in love with a mortician's daughter, and changes his life and his mother's life. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1992 - Prelude to a Kiss. (105 minutes) Director: Norman Rene. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates. Summary: On a Chicago couple's wedding day, a strange occurrence happens at the wedding reception. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1993 - Guilty As Sin. (120 minutes) Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Rebecca DeMornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang, Jack Warden. Summary: A playboy accused of murdering his wife convinces a Chicago, Illinois criminal defense attorney to defend him, and manipulates incidents that incriminate her as an accomplice forcing her to be willing to give up her reputation and livelihood to turn him in. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1998 - Uncle Buck. (106 minutes) Director: John Hughes. Cast: John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Kelly, Gaby Hoffman, Macauley Culkin. Summary: An uncle cares for his three nieces and nephews when their parents go to their grandfather in Indianapolis after a medical emergency and grows up from the experience. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1990 - Home Alone. (100 minutes) Director: Chris Columbus. Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara. Summary: When a family prepares to leave for their vacation, an 8-year old boy wishes they would leave him alone . . . and when they leave, not knowing they have forgotten him, he is home alone! [ILLINOIS]
  • 1992 - Candyman. (101 minutes) Director: Bernard Rose. Cast: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa L. Williams, Michael Culkin. Summary: A hook-handed killer in the slums of Chicago can be beckoned by looking in a mirror and chanting his name. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1992 - Straight Talk. (87 minutes) Director: Barnet Kellman. Cast: Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Michael Madsen, Jerry Orbach, John Sayles, Teri Hatcher. Summary: An Arkansas country girl moves to Chicago where she gets involved as a radio talkshow host advising people about their problems. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1993 - The Fugitive. (133 minutes) Director: Andrew Davis. Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano. Summary: Pursuit of a physician accused of killing his wife who claims that a one-armed man killed his wife. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1993 - Rookie of the Year. (103 minutes) Director: Daniel Stern. Cast: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Albert Hall, Amy Morton, Dan Hedaya. Summary: Henry Rowengartner is being raised by a single mom in Chicago. He is an active twelve-year old with visions of playing for the Chicago Cubs. Unfortunately he is sports challenged until a slipping accident which causes his arm to be broken in several places. When the cast is removed he is able to throw a baseball one hundred miles an hour and is signed by the Chicago Cubs as their new ace pitcher. Will he be accepted by the adult players? Will he forfeit being a kid to make his playing dreams come true? Will his gifted arm be permanent? [ILLINOIS]
  • 1995 - The Boys Next Door. (99 minutes) Director: John Erman. Cast: Tony Goldwyn, Nathan Lane, Michael Jeter, Courtney B. Vance, Robert Sean Leonard, Mare Winningham. Summary: A social worker bonding with needy mentally ill adults living in an Illinois residential house must balance his work and personal life to save his marriage.
  • 1995 - While You Were Sleeping. (100 minutes) Director: Jon Turteltaub. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyls, Glynis Johns, Jack Warden. Summary: A toll taker who has saved a man from death, is mistaken for the comatose man's fiancee, does nothing to dissuade people from thinking that, but falls in love with the comatose man's brother. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1996 - A Family Thing. (109 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach, Irma P. Hall, David Keith. Summary: An Arkansas redneck learns in a sealed letter from a deceased parent of his relationship to a black, urban, Chicago cop. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1997 - The Killing Floor. (118 minutes) Cast: Alfre Woodard, Damien Leake, Moses Gunn, Clarence Felder. Summary: Union squabbles in the Chicago stockyards and slaughterhouses during World War II. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1997 - Love Jones. (108 minutes) Director: Theodore Witcher. Cast: Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington. Summary: What happens to the relationship of an African-American couple who fall in love, but neither one will say "love"? [ILLINOIS]
  • 1997 - My Best Friend's Wedding. (105 minutes) Director: P. J. Hogan. Cast: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett. Summary: When a woman realizes that she is in love with her best friend of ten years, she attempts to sabotage his upcoming marriage. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1998 - Hope Floats. (110 minutes) Director: Forest Whitaker. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Pare. Summary: A Chicago housewife takes her daughter to her mother's Texas home after hearing that her best friend had an affair with her husband. [ILLINOIS; TEXAS]
  • 1999 - Down in the Delta. (111 minutes) Director: Maya Angelou. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle, Wesley Snipes. Summary: A Chicago grandmother, wanting to save her daughter and grandchildren from the dangers of the street, sends them to live in rural Mississippi with her brother-in-law. [ILLINOIS]
  • 1999 - Grizzly Falls. (94 minutes) Director: Stewart Raffill. Cast: Bryan Brown, Tom Jackson, Oliver Tobias. Summary: Flashback story of a boy and his hunter father who take a trip to the Northwest to Grizzly Falls to capture a full-grown grizzly bear and bring it back alive. [ILLINOIS; NORTHWEST]
  • 1999 - Message in a Bottle. (132 minutes) Director: Luis Mandoki. Cast: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas. Summary: A researcher at a Chicago newspaper find a passionate love letter inside a bottle while visiting the shoreline. Attempting to track down its author, she finds a reclusive sailboat builder on the East Coast whose wife died in childbirth two years earlier. They meet and fall in love with him visiting her in Chicago but leaving in anger when he finds out the contrived way they met. [ILLINOIS; CAROLINAS]
  • 2000 - Color Me Dark: The Story of Nellie Lee, The Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919. (30 minutes) Director: based on the Scholastic "Dear America" book. Summary: Attempting to escape the racism of the south, a black funeral director and his wife move their two daughters to Chicago where they find out that riots and racism also exist. [ILLINOIS]
  • 2001 - Hardball. (106 minutes) Director: Brian Robbins. Cast: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, D. B. Sweeney, Mike McGlone, Graham Beckel. Summary: An addictive, down-on-his luck, self-destructive gambler, overly in debt to loan sharks and in fear of his life, reluctantly agrees with his financial adviser friend to coach a Chicago youth baseball team from the projects in exchange for $500 per week for 10 weeks. [CHICAGO, ILLINOIS]
  • 2001 - Just Visiting. (89 minutes) Director: Jean-Marie Gaubert. Cast: Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Matthew Ross, Tara Reid, Malcolm McDowell. Summary: In the 12th century, a brave warrior and respected nobleman, his loyal servant, and an aging wizard are transported to the year 2000 where a museum employee becomes their unofficial guide to life in Chicago. [ILLINOIS]
INDIANA
  • 1935 - Alice Adams. (99 minutes) Director: George Stevens. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fred Mac Murray, Evelyn Venable, Hattie McDaniel. Summary: Family life in South Renford, Indiana, where class and wealth are important for social activities. [based on a Book Tarkington novel] [INDIANA]
  • 1941 - The Major and the Minor. (111 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn. Summary: In 1941 New York City, Susan Applegate, an Iowan woman, decides to give up city life after 25 jobs and to return home only to find that the train fare has gone up. Her only solution is to disguise herself as a 12-year old and purchase a child's fare ticket. Keeping in character is a challenge as is being discovered so that she is trapped in her role. Brought to a military academy in Indiana by the military instructor who befriends her as Uncle Philip on the train, she finds herself falling in love with him, who is to be shortly married. [NEW YORK; INDIANA; IOWA]
  • 1942 - The Magnificent Ambersons. (88 minutes) Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead. Summary: The decline of a wealthy midwestern family. [INDIANA]
  • 1956 - Friendly Persuasion. (140 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins. Summary: A Quaker family is challenged during the Civil War in Indiana. [based on a Jessamyn West novel] [INDIANA]
  • 1957 - Raintree County. (168 minutes) Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Lee Marvin. Summary: The life of a southern belle during the Civil War. [INDIANA]
  • 1969 - Winning. (123 minutes) Director: James Goldstone. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas. Summary: A race car driver cares more about winning than being involved with his family. [INDIANA]
  • 1986 - Hoosiers. (114 minutes) Director: David Anspaugh. Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley. Summary: Hickory High's untraditional coach has them at the 1951 state championships. [INDIANA]
  • 1995 - Breaking Away. (100 minutes) Director: Peter Yates. Cast: Dennis Christopher, Daniel Stern, Dennis Quaid, Jackie Earle Haley, Paul Dooley, Barbara Barrie. Summary: Family life, friendships, and growing up and away in Bloomington, Indiana. [INDIANA]
  • 1997 - In & Out. (92 minutes) Director: Frank Oz. Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley, Bob Newhart, Tom Selleck. Summary: The life of an Indiana high school teacher about to be married in three days changes when he is "outed" on national television by a former student and the current winner of an Oscar. [INDIANA]
  • 2001 - Best Man in Grass Creek. (88 minutes) Director: John Newcombe. Cast: Grace Phillips, Megan Mullally, John Hines, John Newcombe. Summary: Adam Lewis is marriage-shy after having been left at the altar three years previously. He and his girlfriend, Holly, arrive at a small Indiana town, Grass Creek, where Adam finds himself the best man at a wedding of a distant business associate. In exchange for being the best man, the business "stranger" will purchase an ad campaign. Twists and turns follow in this romantic comedy. [INDIANA]

IOWA

KANSAS

KENTUCKY
  • 1949 - The Fighting Kentuckian. (100 minutes) Director: George Waggner. Cast: John Wayne, Vera Ralston. Summary: Frontiersmen come to the aid of Napoleonic French homesteaders. [KENTUCKY]
  • 1958 - Thunder Road. (93 minutes) Director: Arthur Ripley. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Sandra Knight. Summary: An outwitting bootlegger. [KENTUCKY]
  • 1976 - Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. (121 minutes) Director: John Badham. Cast: Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones. Summary: Based on thenovel by William Brashler, this movie tells of a group of 1930's spirited renegade Negro ballplayers leave the Black League to begin their own team traveling through the Midwest states of Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, Iowa as they barnstorm other teams and fight against the unfair rules and poor treatment inflicted upon them by their Negro League owners. [OHIO; KENTUCKY; IOWA; MINNESOTA]
  • 1980 - Coal Miner's Daughter. (125 minutes) Director: Michael Apted. Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens, Beverly D'Angelo. Summary: Follows Loretta Lynn's birth in Butcher Hollow Kentucky to her marriage to a World War II veteran at age thirteen, the birth of her children, her performances at Grand Ole Opry and her career. [KENTUCKY]
  • 1981 - Pride of Jesse Hallam. (105 minutes) Director: Gary Nelson. Cast: Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro, Ben Marley, Eli Wallach. Summary: Character seeks literacy. [KENTUCKY]
  • 1985 - Coal Miner's Daughter. (124 minutes) Director: Michael Apted. Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm. Summary: The life of country and western singer, Loretta Lynn. [KENTUCKY]
  • 1987 - The Dollmaker. (140 minutes) Director: Daniel Petrie. Cast: Jane Fonda, Levon Helm, Amanda Plummer, Geraldine Page. Summary: Life of Gertie Nevels in 1944 Kentucky. [KENTUCKY]
  • 1999 - Simpatico. Cast: Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone. Summary: Three Kentucky friends and a secret.
  • 1999 - The Songcatcher. (105 minutes) Director: Maggie Greenwald. Cast: Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Greg Cook, Emmy Rossum, Taj Mahal. Summary: A female music scholar at the beginning of the 20th century, being passed over for research projects by her male counterparts, discovers a treasure trove of ancient Scot and Irish ballads when visiting her sister in a rural school in Appalachia. She begins to record the songs on wax cylinders until she begins to wonder that she might be exploiting the people who trusted her. [APPALACHIA]
  • 2000 - Harlan County War. (104 minutes) Director: Tony Bill. Cast: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgard, Ted Levine. Summary: Depiction of the 1973 coal mining strike. [KENTUCKY]
LOUISIANA
  • 1938 - Jezebel. (104 minutes) Director: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Fay Bainter. Summary: In 1850s New Orleans, a strong-willed southern belle becomes engaged to a Northern banker, but never marries. Instead he marries a Northern bridge and returns to the South where the two women battle. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1946 - Saratoga Trunk. (135 minutes) Director: Sam Wood. Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman. Summary: A Creole woman whose mother had been wronged years ago in Louisiana returns after groing up in France seeking revenge and money. Based on the Edna Ferber novel, she meets and falls in love with a handsome Texan. Both of them seek wealth and neither of them has it. She follows him to a spa at Saratoga, New York where she goes husband-hunting. The Texan seeks his wealth by seeking revenge against railroad men along the Saratoga trunk of the railroad. [LOUISIANA; NEW YORK]
  • 1949 - All the King's Men. (109 minutes) Director: Robert Rossen. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Joanna Dru. Account of a corrupt politician's rise to power. [based on a Robert Penn Warren novel] [LOUISIANA]
  • 1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire. (122 minutes) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Kim Hunter. Summary: A southern belle moves in with her sister and brother-in-law. [Tennessee Williams' novel] [LOUISIANA]
  • 1958 - King Creole. (116 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Elvis Presley, Walter Matthau. Summary: Music and New Orleans
  • 1959 - Suddenly, Last Summer. (114 minutes) Director: Joseph Mankiewicz. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn. Summary: Neurosis of a young woman. [based on a Tennessee Williams' story] [LOUISIANA]
  • 1965 - Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. (133 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Mary Astor, Bruce Dern. Summary: Is the daughter of a Louisiana landowner mad? [LOUISIANA]
  • 1969 - Easy Rider. (94 minutes) Director: Dennis Hopper. Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson. Summary: Adventures of two drifters motorcycling across the USA. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1972 - Buck and the Preacher. (102 minutes) Director: Sidney Poitier. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell. Summary: After the Civil War, freed slaves sought new lives out West but others tried to get them to return to Louisiana. An ex-Union Army Calvary sergeant lead freed slaves to the Colorado territory. [LOUISIANA/COLORADO]
  • 1972 - Sounder. (105 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, James Best, Janet MacLachlan. Summary: A black sharecropper during the Depression steals food for his family and is sent to jail leaving his wife to raise the family. [based on a William Armstrong novel] [LOUISIANA]
  • 1975 - Let's Do It Again. (112 minutes) Director: Sidney Poitier. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Jimmie Walker, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Denise Nichols. Summary: Two lodge brothers take on the gangsters in New Orleans. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1978 - Casey's Shadow. (116 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Walter Matthau, Alexis Smith, Robert Webber, Murray Hamilton. Summary: A Louisiana horse trainer left by his wife raises his three sons alone. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1978 - Pretty Baby. (109 minutes) Director: Louis Malle. Cast: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon. Summary: Life of a girl growing up in a New Orleans whorehouse. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1980 - Sky Is Gray. (46 minutes) Director: Stan Lathan. Cast: Olivia Cole, James Bond III, Margaret Avery, Cleavon Little, Clinton Derricks-Carroll. Summary: A young boy's exposure to racism, poverty, and pride in 1940s Louisiana. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1984 - A Soldier's Story. (102 minutes) Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Howard Rollins, Jr., Denzel Washington, Patti La Belle. Summary: Combination of a murder mystery, a character study, and a drama based on racial hatred. [based on a Charles Fuller novel] [LOUISIANA]
  • 1984 - Tightrope. (115 minutes) Director: Richard Tuggle. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold. Summary: A suspense thriller with a New Orleans homocide inspector with an S & M fetish being suspected of the crime he is investigating. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1986 - No Mercy. (107 minutes) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger. Summary: A Chicago cop travels to New Orleans to avenge the murder of his partner. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1987 - Angel Heart. (113 minutes) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet. Summary: In New Orleans, 1955, a private investigator is to find a missing singer to win a bet. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1987 - The Big Easy. (100 minutes) Director: Jim McBride. Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin. Summary: The friction between a New Orleans police lieutenant and an assistant district attorney. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1987 - Shy People. (119 minutes) Director: Andrei Konchalovsky. Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Mare Winningham. Summary: A New York magazine writer meets her kin in Louisiana. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1988 - Dead Man Walking. (1988) Director: Richard Pearce. Cast: Danny Glover, Ruben Blades, Tom Atkins, Larry Block, Sam Jackson. Summary: When a disease runs rampant, a wealthy man hires a mercenary to get his girlfriend away from the plague area. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1989 - Blaze. (108 minutes) Director: Ron Shelton. Cast: Paul Newman. Summary: A Bourbon Street stripper, Blaze Starr, and her 1950s affair with Louisiana governor, Earl Long. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1989 - Steel Magnolias. (118 minutes) Director: Herbert Ross. Cast: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Tom Skerritt, Sam Shepard. Summary: When a young Louisiana woman, diabetic all her life, decides to marry and have a baby, she might lose her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.
  • 1992 - Passion Fish. (134 minutes) Director: John Sayles. Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard. Summary: A paralyzed New York City soap opera actress returns home to the Louisiana swamplands to heal. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1995 - Dead Man Walking. (120 minutes) Director: Tim Robbins. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey. Summary: Story of Sister Helen Prejean, a spiritual adviser in New Orleans' Angola Prison with prisoners guilty of murder and condemned to die. [based on the novel of Sister Helen Prejean] [LOUISIANA]
  • 1998 - Judas Kiss. (108 minutes) Director: Sebastian Gutierrez. Cast: Emma Thompson, Alan Richman. Summary: A group of small-time criminals attempt a four million dollar kidnapping scheme that puts federal agents on their trail and forces each criminal to decide whom to betray. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1998 - Ruby Bridges. (90 minutes) Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Kevin Pollak, Michael Beach, Jean Louisa Kelly, Peter Francis James, Chaz Monet. Summary: Ruby Bridges as one of the first Black students to integrate public elementary school in New Orleans. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1998 - The Waterboy. (88 minuntes) Cast: Adam Sandler, Henry Winkler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk. Summary: A Louisiana man from the bayous rises from waterboy when discovered by a coach. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1999 - Double Jeopardy. Director: Bruce Beresford. Cast: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones. Summary: An innocent woman sentenced to prison for killing her husband, gets paroled, finds her husband, and kills him. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1999 - Passing Glory. (95 minutes) Director: Steve James. Cast: Andre Braugher, Rip Torn, Ruby Dee, Sean Squire, Bill Nunn. Summary: A 1965 tale of a teacher/basketball coach attempting to integrate the local high-school basketball league. [LOUISIANA]
  • 1999 - Wild Wild West. (105 minutes) Director:Barry Sonnenfeld. Cast: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, Kenneth Branagh, Ted Levine. Summary: In 1869, an enemy of the United States threatens Pres. Ulysses S. Grant to give over the government to him, but Grant has two Federal workers begin to work on the problem in Louisiana which is successfully resolved at the connection of the two railroad lines at Promontory Point, Utah. [LOUISIANA, UTAH]
MAINE
  • 1945 - The Enchanted Cottage. (91 minutes) Director: John Cromwell. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington, Hillary Brooke. Summary: In a New England cottage, a combination of romance, fantasy, and melodrama blooms during World War II when a battle-damaged pilot and an inwardly lonely woman meet and see the best in each other through with the help of a widow and a blind visitor. [VERMONT; MAINE?; NEW ENGLAND]
  • 1973 - Charlotte's Web. Voices: Paul Lynd, Debbie Reynolds. Summary: A young girl befriends the animals of the barnyard which includes a pig, a rat, and a spider. [based on the book by Maine's E. B. White] [MAINE]
  • 1977 - Pete's Dragon. (134 minutes) Director: Don Chaffey. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jim Dale, Helen Reddy, Red Buttons, Jim Backus, Sean Marshall. Summary: In 1908 Maine, a 9-year old boy allows a pet dragon that only he can see to help him escape from his foster parents. [MAINE]
  • 1977 - The White Heron: A Maine Story. Cast: Ruth Rogers, Gary Stine. [based on a Sarah Orne Jewett book] [MAINE]
  • 1987 - Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie. (30 minutes) Summary: Experience of a young girl helping her country at her 1856 lighthouse. [MAINE]
  • 1988 - The Good Mother. (104 minutes) Director: Leonard Nemoy. Cast: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy, Katy Sagal. Summary: The divorced mother of a young daughter living in the Cambridge area and working at a college lab finds love and passion with an artist which leads to a court custody case involving the sexual permissiveness of her parenting. [based on a Sue Miller novel] [MASSACHUSETTS/MAINE/CONNECTICUT]
  • 1988 - Whales of August. (90 minutes) Director: Lindsay Anderson. Cast: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern. Summary: Two older sisters live and bicker at their island home off the coast of Maine. [MAINE]
  • 1989 - Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline. Narrator: Amanda Plummer. Summary: Emeline Gurney of Fayette, Maine travels to Lowell, Massachusetts to work in a textile mill. [MAINE/MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1992 - Skylark. (98 minutes) Director: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Christopher Ball. Summary: A mail-order bride from Maine travels to Kansas with her cat to be married and raise the family of a farmer. [based on a Patricia MacLahlan novel] [MAINE/KANSAS]
  • 1994 - A Visit With Barbara Cooney (29 minutes) [writer of children's books] [MAINE]
  • 1995 - Dolores Claiborne. (131 minutes) Director: Taylor Hackford. Cast: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn. Summary: A Maine housekeeper is accused of killing her employer. [based on a Stephen King novel] [MAINE]
  • 1996 - Fudge-A-Mania. (93 minutes) Cast: Florence Henderson, Darren McGavin, Eve Plumb. Summary: Experiences of the Farley family. [based on a Judy Blume book] [MAINE]
  • 1996 - The Spitfire Grill. (111 minutes) Director: Lee David Zlotoff. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Alison Elliott. Summary: A prison parolee gets a job and befriends the owner of a Maine grill. [MAINE]
  • 1997 - Andre. (96 minutes) Director: George Miller. Cast: Keith Carradine, Tina Majorino. [MAINE]
  • 1997 - A Midwife's Tale (88 minutes) Summary: Life of Martha Ballard of Hallowell, Maine from her diary interpreted from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's book. [MAINE]
  • 1997 - Sign of the Beaver. (93 minutes) Cast: Keith Carradine, Annette O'Toole. Summary: An 18th century male settler and his son from Massachusetts settle on land in Maine and build a cabin with the father leaving the boy to tend the land and survive nature and the natives while he goes back to Massachusetts for the rest of the family. [MAINE]
  • 1999 - The Cider House Rules. (131 minutes) Director: Lasse Hallstrom. Cast: Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine. Summary: During World War II, a young man leaves an orphanage to work in an apple orchard and falls in love with the girlfriend of his friend who is away fighting in the war. [MAINE]
  • 1999 - Stephen King's Storm of the Century. (256 minutes) Director: Craig R. Baxley. Cast: Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debra Farentino. [MAINE]
  • 1999 - Stuart Little. (89 minutes) Director: Rob Minkoff. Voices: Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Michael J. Fox. Summary: A human family adopts a mouse into its family. [based on the book by Maine's E. B. White] [MAINE]
  • 2001 - In the Bedroom. (131 minutes) Director: Todd Field. Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Marisa Tomei. [MAINE]
  • 2003 - Welcome to Mooseport. (115 minutes) Director: Donald Petrie. Cast: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney, Christine Baranski, Rip Torn. Summary: The recently divorced former President of the United States returns to live at his summer home in Mooseport, Maine, and is asked to run for mayor, a position which nobody wants. When a local plumber volunteers to help out the town, the national spotlight focuses on Mooseport. [MAINE]
MARYLAND
  • 1941 - The Great Lie. (101 minutes) Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Jerome Cowan. Summary: Melodramatic story of a pilot man who marries a professional pianist and finds out the marriage is illegal because her divorce was not yet formal. When the actual date arrives, she prefers to give a concert in Philadelphia than get married legally. He returns to Maryland and proposes to his former fiance who accepts. He gets a job helping Washington, D. C. with his flying skills and turns up lost. The pianist learns she is pregnant. The legal wife wants to raise the child. She goes with the pianist to Arizona until the boy is born and the pact of insuring the pianist's monetary problems for the gift of raising the son is formed until the husband turns up found. [SOUTH AMERICA; ARIZONA; MARYLAND; NEW YORK; WASHINGTON, D. C.]
  • 1942 - In This Our Life. (98 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn, Billie Burke, Frank Craven, Hattie McDaniel, Lee Patrick. Music: Max Steiner Summary: Based on an Ellen Glasgow novel, Stanley Timberlake leaves her fiance, an attorney, to run off with her sisters husband, a physician, causing him to drink, commit suicide and her to return to attempt to snare back her former fiance, now the fiance of her sister. [MARYLAND]
  • 1956 - Great Locomotive Chase. (85 minutes) Director: Francis D. Lyon. Cast: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter. Summary: The 1862 story of Andrew's Raid, a plot to cripple the railroad system of the Confederacy - "Chattanooga Railroad Expedition or 1862" [MARYLAND]
  • 1982 - Secret of NIMH. (82 minutes) Voices: Dom DeLuise, Peter Straus, John Carradine. Summary: Rats at the National Institute of Mental Health are used in experiments. [MARYLAND]
  • 1989 - Men Don't Leave. (120 minutes) Director: Paul Brickman. Cast: Jessica Lange, Arliss Howard, Joan Cusack. Summary: A woman tries to raise her two sons after their father dies in a freak accident. [MARYLAND]
  • 1990 - Avalon. (126 minutes) Director: Barry Levinson. Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright, Aidan Quinn. Summary: Follows fifty years in the lives of three generations of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Baltimore, Maryland. [MARYLAND]
  • 1992 - The Babe. (115 minutes) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: John Goodman, Kelly McGillis. Summary: Story of George Herman "Babe" Ruth, born in Baltimore, Maryland [MARYLAND]
  • 1992 - A Woman Called Moses. (200 minutes) Director: Paul Wendkos. Cast: Cicely Tyson, Will Geer, Robert Hooks. Summary: Life of Harriet Tubman/ Araminta "Minty" Ross [MARYLAND]
  • 1994 - Serial Mom. (97 minutes) Director: John Waters. Cast: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Suzanne Somers, Ricki Lake. Summary: A woman's homicidal streak breaks forth when her family gets bothered by outsiders. [MARYLAND]
  • 1995 - Home for the Holidays. (103 minutes) Director: Jodie Foster. Cast: Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey, Jr., Dylan McDermott, Geraldine Chaplin, Charles Durning. Summary: A dysfunctional family meets at the family home on Thanksgiving. [MARYLAND]
  • 1997 - Harriet and the Promised Land. (8 minutes) [Harriet Tubman] Narrator: Ruby Dee [based on the Jacob Lawrence picture book] [MARYLAND]
  • 1999 - Liberty Heights. (122 minutes) Director: Barry Levinson. Cast: Ben Foster, Rebekah Johnson. Summary: In 1954 Baltimore, a Jewish family remembers their life together. [MARYLAND]
  • 2001 - Hannibal. (131 minutes) Director: Ridley Scott. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta. [MARYLAND]
MASSACHUSETTS
  • 1940 - The House of Seven Gables. (90 minutes) Director: Joe May. Cast: Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, George Sanders, Nan Grey, Alan Napier, Dick Foran. Summary: In Salem, Massachusetts, what is going on in the house with seven gables? [based on a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel] [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1942 - Now, Voyager. (118 minutes) Director: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, Ilka Chase. Music: Max Steiner Summary: Based on an Olive Higgins Prouty novel, Charlotte Vale, a Boston-bred spinster's life is physically and spiritually transformed after a breakdown and treatment by a psychiatrist who supports her overcoming her domineering mother to discover love, heartbreak, and contentment in her own life. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1946 - A Stolen Life. (109 minutes) Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Bruce Bennett, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Brennan. Music: Max Steiner Summary: On Martha's Vineyard, the conniving twin sister of a pair of twins goes after and marries the prospective boyfriend of the other twin. (produced by Bette Davis) [MASSACHUSETTS; NEW YORK]
  • 1949 - Little Women. (121 minutes) Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Astor, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien. Summary: Louisa May Alcott's life in 1860s Concord, Massachusetts. (see: 1994 version) [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1957 - Fear Strikes Out. (81 minutes) Director: Robert Mulligan. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson. Summary: The story of Jimmy Piersall of the Boston Red Sox. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1957 - Johnny Tremain. (80 minutes) Summary: An apprentice silversmith in 1770s Boston becomes involved with the Sons of Liberty and attempts to prove his lineage to a wealthy merchant. [Esther Forbes novel of 1770s Boston] [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1958 - The Last Hurrah. (114 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianna Foster, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, James Gleason, Edward Brophy, John Carradine, Wallace Ford, Frank McHugh, Jane Darwell. Summary: Story of an Irish-Catholic mayor (Boston's James Michael Curley) running for office one last time. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1963 - Donovan's Reef. (109 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Dorothy Lamour. Summary: A Boston girl visits her father and meets three old drinking seafaring buddies attempting to impress her but hiding her from her bi-racial step-siblings. [MASSACHUSETTS][SOUTH PACIFIC]
  • 1968 - The Thomas Crown Affair. (102 minutes) Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire. Summary: A self-made rich man robs a Boston bank with five collaborators who have never met him face-to-face. When a female lead investigator brought in to handle the case believes that he is the culprit, the two get into a bet where he will rob again and then meet her after the caper. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1969 - Mouse on the Mayflower. Voices: Ernie Ford, Eddie Albert. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1970 - Love Story. (99 minutes) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw, Ray Milland. Summary: A Harvard College hockey player and pre-law student from a wealthy family falls in love with and marries a music student who is the daughter of a working class person. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1971 - Alice's Restaurant. (111 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick, Michael McClanathan, Geoff Outlaw, Tina Chen. Summary: Experiences of the 1960s counterculture Stockbridge, Massachusetts. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1973 - The Paper Chase. (111 minutes) Director: James Bridges. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, John Houseman, Lindsay Wagner. Summary: A Harvard law professor guides his law students in the use of the Socratic method of thinking. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1978 - The Brink's Job. (103 minutes) Director: William Friedkin. Cast: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Warren Oates. Summary: A group of gangsters execute the 1950s Boston heist at the Brinks warehouse. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1978 - Coma. (79 minutes) Director: Michael Crichton. Cast: Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark, Rip Torn, Elizabeth Ashley. Summary: What happens to make healthy people go into a coma after surgery in this city hospital? [based on a Robin Cook novel] [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1979 - Mayflower: The Pilgrim's Adventure. (96 minutes) Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Leslie-Anne Downs, Richard Crenna, Trish Van Devere. Summary: The 1620 trip of the Pilgrims to Provincetown and settlement at Plimoth. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1981 - Whose Life Is It, Anyway?. (118 minutes) Director: John Badham. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban, Kenneth McMillan, Kaki Hunter, Janet Eilber. Summary: Focuses on the theme of an individual's right to choose the manner of his own death, when an automobile accident renders a Boston sculptor a quadraplegic.
  • 1982 - The Verdict. (129 minutes) Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Paul Newman, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden. Summary: An alcoholic Boston lawyer redeems his professional career in a malpractice case. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1985 - Three Sovereigns for Sarah. (171 minutes) Director: Philip Leacock. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave. Summary: Revelation of how the 1620s Salem witch trials were motivated by the desire for land. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1986 - Soul Man. (101 minutes) Director: Steve Miner. Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Arye Gross, James. B. Sikking, Leslie Nielsen. Summary: A Los Angeles preppie masquerades to get financial assistance to attend Harvard College. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1987 - April Morning. Cast: Robert Urich. Summary: A group of local farmers defend the Lexington Green against the British regulars on April 18, 1775. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1987 - Taking Care of Terrific. (58 minutes) Director:Jim Purdy. Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Joanne Vannicola, Benjamin Barrett, Zack Ward, Jackie Burroughs. Summary: Based on the Lois Lowry novel set in Boston, Massachusetts, features only child, 14-year-old Enid Crowley (Cynthia) whose professional parents do not have much time to spend with her. She spends time sketching at the Public Gardens befriending the homeless women and a street musician saxophone player. Her life changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a wealthy, pampered boy, "Tom Terrific." [BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1988 - The Good Mother. (104 minutes) Director: Leonard Nemoy. Cast: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy, Katy Sagal. Summary: The divorced mother of a young daughter living in the Cambridge area and working at a college lab finds love and passion with an artist which leads to a court custody case involving the sexual permissiveness of her parenting. [based on a Sue Miller novel] [MASSACHUSETTS/MAINE/CONNECTICUT]
  • 1989 - Glory. (202 minutes) Director: Edward Zwick. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzell Washington, Morgan Freeman. Summary: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Robert Gould Shaw fights in the Civil War in South Carolina. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1989 - Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline. Narrator: Amanda Plummer. Summary: Emeline Gurney of Fayette, Maine travels to Lowell, Massachusetts to work in a textile mill. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1991 - Once Around. (115 minutes) Director: Lasse Hallstrom. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands. Summary: A Boston woman finds romance with an oddball, middle-aged millionaire whose personality emotionally splits her close family. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1991 - Sleeping with the Enemy. (99 minutes) Director: Joseph Ruben. Cast: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence, Kyle Secor. Summary: A woman believed her husband was attentive until they were married and she discovered he was really compulsive, controlling, and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear, she plans to escape by faking her death by drowning in a boating accident on Cape Cod and relocating to Iowa. All is fine until, even with a new look and identity, her obsessed and demented husband wants her to pay for deceiving him. [MASSACHUSETTS, IOWA]
  • 1991 - Story of America's Classic Ballparks. (56 minutes) [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1993 - Spenser: Ceremony. (96 minutes) Director: Andrew Wild. Cast: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks. Summary: Adventures of the Boston-based private investigator. [based on Robert B. Parker's novels] [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1994 - Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes. (96 minutes) Director: Vic Sarin. Cast: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks. Summary: The Boston-based private investigator is on the case. [based on Robert B. Parker's novels] [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1994 - Little Women. (119 minutes) Director: Gillian Armstrong. Cast: Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Trini Alvarado, Eric Stoltz, Christian Bale. Summary: Louisa May Alcott's life in 1860s Concord, Massachusetts. (see: 1949 version) [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1995 - The Scarlet Letter. (135 minutes) Director: Roland Joffe. Cast: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Joan Plowright, Robert Prosky. Summary: The punishment of the 1600s adulterous Salem woman. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1996 - The Crucible. (115 minutes) Cast: Winona Ryder, Joan Allen, Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis. Summary: The 1692 Salem witch trials. [based on an Arthur Miller play] [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1996 - Squanto: A Warrior's Tale. (97 minutes) Director: Xavier Killer. Cast: Adam Beach, Eric Schweig, Michael Gambon, Nathaniel Parker, Alex Norton, Stuart Pankin, Donal Donnelly, Mandy Patinkin. Summary: The experiences of the Wampanoag who helped the Plimoth settlers. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1996 - To Gillian on her 37th Birthday. (92 minutes) Director: Michael Pressman. Cast: Peter Gallaher, Claire Danes, Kathy Baker, Wendy Crewson, Bruce Altman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Laurie Fortier. Summary: A weekend on a small island off the Massachusetts coast is the scene for this story of a family concerned with the behavior of a widower who continues to "see and talk to" his late wife who fell from the mast of their boat two years previously, and his refusal to leave the island, take back his job as literature instructor at Boston University, and let him and his teenager daughter "move on". [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1997 - Good Will Hunting. (126 minutes) Director: Gus Van Sant Cast: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver. Summary: A Harvard mathematical genius emerges. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1997 - To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. (93 minutes) Director: Michael Pressman. Cast: Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes, Kathy Baker, Wendy Crewson, Bruce Altman, Michelle Pfeiffer. Summary: College professor David Lewis is a grieving widower on the brink of a breakdown, who continues to "see" his late wife two years after her boating accident death. As he withdraws further into his fantasy world, he leaves his neglected daughter behind. Hoping to help him, David's meddling in-laws bring an uninvited guest and a hidden agenda for a weekend at David's Nantucket beach house. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1998 - A Civil Action. (118 minutes) Director: Steven Zaillian. Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan. Summary: Personal injury attorney Jan Schlichtmann represents 1970s residents of Woburn, Massachusetts leukemia victims involved in corporate negligence suit against Beatrice Foods and W. R. Grace & Company. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1998 - Southie. (96 minutes) Director: John Shea. Cast: Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan. Summary: Life in South Boston, Massachusetts. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1999 - Boondock Saints. Director: Troy Duffy. Cast: Willem Dafoe. (Boston) [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1999 - Girl Interrupted. (125 minutes) Director: James Mangold. Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie. [based on Susanna Kaysen's memoir) [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1999 - Journey to the New World. (30 minutes) [1620 Mayflower] [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1999 - Small Vices. (100 minutes) Director: Robert Markowitz. Cast: Joe Montegna, Marcia Gay Harden, Shiek Mahmud-Bey. The case of a man convicted of murder brings Spenser to investigate for the convicts law firm. [Private Investigator Spenser in Boston] [a Robert Parker novel] [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 1999 - So Far From Home: The Story of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl. Summary: Life in an 1800s Lowell textile mill
  • 2000 - Here on Earth. (96 minutes) Director: Mark Piznarski. Cast: Chris Klein, Leelee Sobieski, Josh Hartnett, Bruce Greenwood, Annette O'Toole, Annie Corley, Stuart Wilson, Michael Rooker. Summary: A Boston rich kid attending a prestigious prep school in New York destroys a diner while racing recklessly against a local youth. Both are sentenced to a summer of manual labor rebuilding the diner. The rich kid finds love with the daughter of Mabel's Table. [NEW YORK; MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 2000 - The Perfect Storm. (129 minutes) Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, Karen Allen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, William Fichtner, Bob Gunton. Summary: Story of a Gloucester fishing boat that was at the confluence of two storms on October, 1991. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 2000 - Sacco and Vanzetti. (121 minutes) Director: Giuliano Montaldo. Cast: Gian Maria Volonte, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Milo O'Shea. Summary: The trial and later execution of two Italian immigrants convicted of murder in 1921. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 2001 - Legally Blonde. (96 minutes) Director: Robert Luketic. Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Matthew Davis, Selma Blair. Summary: To prove herself "worthy" of her boyfriend's family, a Malibu sorority/fashion degree girl studies for and passes the LSAT, is accepted to Harvard Law School, and, with her Chihuahua, develops friendships, sticks to her ethics of loyalty and compassion, and follows her path to a law degree. [CALIFORNIA; MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 2001 - Summer Catch. Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel. Summary: Romance of a pitcher for an elite summer-league baseball team and a rich girl vacationing on Cape Cod. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 2003 - Brush With Fate. (98 minutes) Director: Brent Shields. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Thomas Gibston, Phyllida Law, Kelly Macdonald,, Patrick Bergin. Summary: Based on the Susan Vreeland novel "Girl In Hyacinth Blue," this movie tells of how the impoverished Dutch artist, Vermeer, picture the image of his daughter seated at an open window. Painted in love, sold in desperation, bought in passion, and stolen in greed, the painting's history and the role it played in the lives of those who owned it is revealed in flashback by Cornelia Engelbrecht, a reclusive historian, to an art educator at her college in Massachusetts. [HOLLAND; MASSACHUSETTS]
  • 2003 - Mona Lisa Smile. (119 minutes) Director: Mike Newell. Cast: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Summary: In 1953, a California university college professor accepts a position as art history professor at Wellesley College, a woman's college in Massachusetts, attempting to bring her brand of interpreting life to the women who were preparing for the life of wife, mother, and business supporters to their prospective husbands. What did women want in life and romance in 1953? [MASSACHUSETTS; CALIFORNIA]
  • 2004 - Passionada.(104 minutes) Director: Dan Ireland. Cast: Jason Isaacs, Sofia Milos, Emmy Rossum, Theresa Russell. Summary: A New Bedford, Massachusetts widow, Celia, refuses to date even years after her husband, a Portuguese fisherman is lost at sea. Her daughter, Vicky, tries to get her to date. While singing passionate Portuguese songs at a local nightclub, Celia meets Charlie, a charming Englishman who is a poor card counting gambler visiting wealthy friends. [MASSACHUSETTS]

MICHIGAN

MINNESOTA

MISSISSIPPI
  • 1949 - Pinky. (102 minutes) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Arthur Hunnicutt. Summary: A light-skinned black woman, sent to Boston by her grandmother for an education and training as a nurse, returns to Mississippi revealing that she has been passing for white, fallen in love with a white doctor, and plans to return to the North. When she inherits property from a neighbor and family friend and has it contested in court, she fights it in open court for all to see, then begins a clinic and nursery school for black children. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1951 - Showboat. (115 minutes) Director: George Sidney. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel. Summary: Life and times on a 1900s showboat along the Mississippi. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1956 - Baby Doll. (114 minutes) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Karl Malden, Mildred Dunnock, Lonny Chapman, Rip Torn. Summary: Includes a child bride who sleeps in a crib, her lusting husband, and a scheming business rival for this story. [based on a Tennessee Williams work] [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1958 - The Long, Hot Summer. (115 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury. Summary: Based on William Faulkner's novel of a drifter in town fascinates the women, alienates the men, and aggravates the town's monied redneck. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1961 - Summer and Smoke. Cast: Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey. Summary: In 1916 Mississippi, a spinster seeks love but her parents are narrow-minded. [based on a Tennessee Williams work] [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1966 - This Property Is Condemned. (109 minutes) Director: Sydney Pollard. Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson. Summary: A southern girl casts a spell of romance of a stranger in town, there to lay off local railroaders, [based on a Tennessee Williams novel] [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1967 - In the Heat of the Night. (109 minutes) Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger. Summary: In Sparta, Mississippi, racial tension heats up when a rural southern sheriff and a black northern detective collaborate to solve a murder. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1969 - The Reivers. (107 minutes) Director: Mark Rydell. Cast: Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse. Summary: In 1905, young boy, with the help of his older friends "borrows" an automobile and heads for fun and adventure in Mississippi.[based on a William Faulkner tale] [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1974 - Thieves Like Us. (123 minutes) Cast: Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall. Summary: Gangsters in Mississippi during the Depression. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1978 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. (150 minutes) Director: Jack Smight. Cast: Claudia McNeil, Janet MacLachlan, Robert Christian, Morgan Freeman. Summary: A proud black family owning their own land in Depression-era Mississippi face obstacles in their community. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1980 - Private Benjamin. (110 minutes) Director: Howard Zieff. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Sam Wanamaker. Summary: A spoiled Philadelphia Jewish American Princess whose husband dies on her wedding night, has lost her sense of identity, joins the Army, and is stationed at Fort Biloxi, Mississippi. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1985 - And the Children Shall Lead. (58 minutes) (Wonderworks series) Cast: Danny Glover, LeVar Burton, Denise Nicholas, Beah Richards, Andrew Prine, Whitman Mayo, Amanda Peterson, Jamila Perry, Pam Potillo. Summary: In 1964 Catesville, Mississippi, friction resulsts between racial groups when the Freedom riders and civil rights activists come to town to create a voter registration drive. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1985 - The Long Hot Summer. (193 minutes) Director: Stuart Cooper. Cast: Ava Gardner, Judith Ivey, Don Johnson, Jason Robards. Summary: A drifter in town fascinates the women, alienates the men, and aggravates the town's monied redneck. [based on a William Faulkner novel] [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1988 - Mississippi Burning. (127 minutes) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Willem DaFoe, Gene Hackman, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey. Summary: What might have happened in 1964 Mississippi if when three civil rights activists turned up missing in Mississippi. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1989 - Ida B. Wells - A Passion For Justice. (58 minutes) Narrated by: Al Freeman, Jr. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1992 - Mississippi Masala. (117 minutes) Director: Mira Nair. Cast: Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury, Charles Dutton, Tico Wells, Joe Seneca. Summary: Tomance between a black businessman and an Indian immigrant who become outcasts in their town because of racial prejudice. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1993 - Adventures of Huck Finn. (108 minutes) Director: Stephen Sommers. Cast: Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Jason Robards, Anne Heche. Summary: A young boy learns many lessons in life while traveling along the Mississippi River. [based on the work of Mark Twain] [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1993 - Intruder in the Night. (90 minutes) Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1995 - Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored. (113 minutes) Director: Tim Reid. Cast: Al Freeman, Jr., Phylicia Rashad. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1996 - A Time to Kill. (150 minutes) Director: Joel Schumacher. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Ashley Judd. Summary: A Mississippi attorney defends a factory worker who killed the two racist thugs that had raped his ten-year old daughter. [based on a John Grisham novel] [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1997 - The Chamber. (113 minutes) Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway. Summary: A grandson lawyer pleads a case for clemency for his one-time klansman grandfather. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1997 - Ghosts of Mississippi. (131 minutes) Director: Rob Reiner. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, Craig T. Nelson. Summary: Tells of the 1963 murder of civil-rights activist Medgar Evers and the trial 30 years later that puts accused killer Byron De La Beckwith behind bars. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 1999 - Down in the Delta. (111 minutes) Director: Maya Angelou. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle, Wesley Snipes. Summary: A Chicago grandmother, wanting to save her daughter and grandchildren from the dangers of the street, sends them to live in rural Mississippi with her brother-in-law. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 2000 - Freedom Song. (117 minutes) Director: Phil Alden Robinson. Cast: Danny Glover, Vondie Curtis-Hall. Summary: Humorous and emotional intesifying interpretation of the civil rights movement focusing mostly on the teenagers. [MISSISSIPPI]
  • 2000 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?. (103 minutes) Director: Joel Coen. Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter, John Goodman. Summary: Based on the travels of Ulysses, a Mississippi prison farm convict escapes the rock gang chained to two other convicts to dig up their stashed loot before a flood covers it forever. Along the road, they meet "the sirens" and "the cyclops" as they hit the road. [MISSISSIPPI]
MISSOURI
  • 1941 - Sullivan's Travels. (90 minutes) Director: Preston Sturges. Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Eric Blore, Jimmy Conlin. Summary: Spoof of Hollywood when a film director tries to experiment finding out what life outside Tinseltown is really like as he lives as a tramp, gets mugged, turns up dead, and gets sent to hard labor for 6 years. He realizes that laughter, not deep thoughts are what the people of the time need. [CALIFORNIA; LAS VEGAS, NEVADA; KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI]
  • 1945 - Murder, He Says. (125 minutes) Director: George Marshall. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main. Summary: A poll taker appears in the Ozark town of Plainville looking for a colleague who has never finished his poll of the area, becomes involved with the Fleagle family's attempts to claim $70,000 of stolen money. [OZARKS . . MISSOURI; ARKANSAS] (Similarities to "Arsenic and Old Lace")
  • 1948 - The Paleface. (91 minutes) Director: Norman Mc Leod. Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong. Summary: A cowardly dentist marries Calamity Jane and becomes a celebrated gunslinger. [Calamity Jane was born in Missouri] [MISSOURI]
  • 1948 - Red River. (134 minutes) Director: Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru. Summary: Across the Chisholm Trail on a cattle drive. [MISSOURI]
  • 1952 - The Big Sky. (122 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Arthur Hunnicutt, Elizabeth Treatt. Summary: In 1832 Louisville, Kentucky, one man meets another along the road. They become friends and move on to St. Louis, Missouri where they join a group of French fur traders planning to explore the upper regions of the Missouri River and across 2000 miles through Indian country to Montana to trade with the Blackfoot with the help of a kidnapped Indian princess being returned to her people. [MISSOURI]
  • 1957 - Spirit of St. Louis. (138 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: James Stewart, Patricia Smith. Summary: Story of the 1927 flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. [MISSOURI]
  • 1962 - Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation. (116 minutes) Director: Henry Koster. Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Marie Wilson, Fabian, John Saxon. Summary: A Missouri banker bonds with his children and grandchildren during a week long family vacation at a beach house near San Francisco when his two married daughters, their husbands and children along his wife and two teenage children who live at home meet the challenges of living together in a house with poor plumbing. [MISSOURI]
  • 1963 - How the West Was Won. (155 minutes) Filmed in Cinerama with segments directed by Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, John Ford. Cast: Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Wayne, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Robert Preston, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones, Carroll Baker. Summary: Civilization moves westward along the Erie Canal; across the plains; building the railroads; creating settlements in the West under law and order. [NEW YORK, TEXAS, MISSOURI, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, OHIO]
  • 1966 - The Rare Breed. (108 minutes) Director: Andrew V. McLaglen. Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Jack Elam, Ben Johnson. Summary: In 1884 Kansas City, Missouri, an Englishwoman with a new breed of short-horned cattle plans to introduce it to the Texas range. [MISSOURI/TEXAS]
  • 1967 - Bonnie and Clyde. (111 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder. Summary: Adventures of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. [MISSOURI]
  • 1972 - Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. (91 minutes) Director: Phil Kaufman. Cast: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew. Summary: Adventures of Jesse James and Cole Younger. [MISSOURI]
  • 1973 - Dillinger. (minutes) Director: Cast: Warren Oates. Summary: The search for bank robber John Dillinger in Missouri during the Depression.
  • 1974 - Seven Alone. (95 minutes) Director: Cast: Dewey Martin, Anne Collings, Aldo Ray. Summary: 1843 migration of the Sager family from Missouri to Oregon. [MISSOURI]
  • 1976 - Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. (121 minutes) Director: John Badham. Cast: Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones. Summary: Based on thenovel by William Brashler, this movie tells of a group of 1930's spirited renegade Negro ballplayers leave the Black League to begin their own team traveling through the Midwest states of Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, Iowa as they barnstorm other teams and fight against the unfair rules and poor treatment inflicted upon them by their Negro League owners. [OHIO; KENTUCKY; IOWA; MINNESOTA]
  • 1976 - The Missouri Breaks. (126 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid. Summary: Story of an outlaw and a bounty hunter in 1880s Missouri. [MISSOURI]
  • 1976 - The Outlaw Josey Wales. (135 minutes) Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, John Mitchum, John Russell. Summary: When a farmer's family is murdered by Red Legs, a group of cutthroats allied with the Union Army, he joins the Confederacy to seek revenge. [MISSOURI]
  • 1984 - Words by Heart. (116 minutes) Director: Robert Thompson. Cast: Alfre Woodard, Charlotte Rae, Robert Hooks. Summary: The only black family living in an all-white Missouri town faces prejudice at the turn of the century. [A WoNderworks presentation based on the Ouida Sebestyen book] [MISSOURI]
  • 1986 - Jesse James. (105 minutes) Director: Henry King. Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly. [MISSOURI]
  • 1990 - White Palace. (106 minutes) Director: Luis Mandoki. Cast: Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Eileen Brennan, Steven Hill, Renee Taylor. Summary: In Missouri, a widowed yuppie falls in love with an older waitress. [MISSOURI]
  • 1992 - Legends of the American West. (96 minutes) Summary: Colorado, New Mexico, Missouri, Oklahoma, California and Jesse James; Billy, the Kid; Sitting Bull; Geronimo. [MISSOURI]
  • 1994 - Geronimo. (115 minutes) Director: Walter Hill. Cast: Jason Patric, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman. [MISSOURI]
  • 1994 - Paul Bunyan. (27 minutes) [MISSOURI]
  • 2000 - Ride With the Devil. (139 minutes) Director: Ang Lee. Cast: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright. [MISSOURI]
  • 2001 - Lightning: Fire from the Sky. Cast: John Schneider, Jesse Eisenberg, Stacy Keach. Summary: A father and his estranged son try to save their Missouri town from a destructive storm and a land developer. [MISSOURI]
MONTANA
  • 1936 - The Plainsman. (115 minutes) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall. Summary: During post-Civil War times in the Midwest, conflict with the Native Americans, George Armstrong Custer, Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane and the Battle of Little Bighorn. [MONTANA]
  • 1973 - Badlands. (95 minutes) Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint. Summary: Based on the true killing rampages of lost souls - Charles Starkweather, a young misfit garbageman, and Carol Fugate, a 15-year old lovesick girl, from South Dakota, Montana, through Nebraska and neighboring states. [NEBRASKA; SOUTH DAKOTA; MONTANA]
  • 1972 The Cowboys. (135 minutes) Director: Mark Rydell. Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst. Summary: A 60-year old rancher in Montana hires a group of young school boys to get his herd to market when a gold rush rumor surfaces near Ruby River. [MONTANA]
  • 1974 - I Will Fight No More Forever. (100 minutes) Director: Richard T. Heffron. Cast: James Whitmore, Ned Romero, Sam Elliott, Nick Ramus. Summary: Chief Joseph, Nez Perce of Montana, faces General Oliver Howard and his calvarymen. [MONTANA]
  • 1976 - The Missouri Breaks. (126 minutes) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid. Summary: Story of an outlaw and a bounty hunter in the 1880s along the Missouri River. [MONTANA]
  • 198_ - Gift of the Sacred Dog. (30 minutes) Cast: Michael Ansara. Summary: Focus on the Crow Agency, Montana. [MONTANA]
  • 1984 - Stone Boy. (93 minutes) Director: Christopher Cain. Cast: Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Linda Hamilton, Wilfred Brimley. Summary: After a boy accidentally shoots his older brother whom he loved, he begins to lose touch with reality. [MONTANA]
  • 1988 - Lonesome Dove. (360 minutes) Cast: Robert Duvall, Danny Glover, Tommy Lee Jones, Angelica Huston. Summary: A pair of aging Texas Rangers have one last adventure on a cattle drive across Montana. [based on the work of Larry McMurtry] [MONTANA]
  • 1992 - A River Runs Through It. (124 minutes) Director: Robert Redford. Cast: Tom Skerritt, Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg. Summary: A young man finds peace and friendship in fly-fishing [based on a Norman Maclean memoir] [MONTANA]
  • 1993 - Return to Lonesome Dove. (330 minutes) Director: Mike Robe. Cast: Jon Voight, Barbara Hershey, Rick Schroder, Lou Gossett Jr., William L. Petersen, Oliver Reed, Reese Witherspoon, C. C. H. Pounder. Summary: Captain Call and his son become involved in a range war. [MONTANA]
  • 1994 - Legends of the Fall. (135 minutes) Director: Edward Zwick. Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas. Summary: A U. S. Cavalry officer raiseing his three sons near the Montana Rockies faces sibling rivalry. [MONTANA]
  • 1998 - The Patriot. Director: Cast: Steven Seagal. [MONTANA]
  • 1999 - The Horse Whisperer. (169 minutes) Director: Robert Redford. Cast: Robert Redford, Kirstin Scott, Dianne Wiest. Summary: Can a Montana horse trainer bring a 14-year old girl who suffered in a terrible horse accident losing her leg and her horse back together? [MONTANA]

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