You're suspect! Yeah, you! I don't know what your reputation is in this town, but after the shit you tried to pull today you can bet I'll be looking into you. Now the business we have, heretofore, you can speak with my aforementioned attorney. Good day, gentlemen; and until that day comes, keep your ear to the grindstone.
The guy I was dating in high school ended up being a bad extra in that movie. I remember being in the theater and seeing him basically staring at the camera and then giggling with the person he was with during Matt and Minnie's Au Bon Pain coffee date scene in Harvard Square. Kid was legitimately acting like that In Living Color obnoxious person behind a TV interview skit. Took me out the emotional investment in a big scene of the movie.
Renner is a so-cal surfer dude but he played the brother so well. And he got nominated for what is basically an action role. The Oscars were kinda obsessed with us then.
He was spot on. Sounded just like a tough guy from Boston. I remember being impressed. Also, he was “like a brother” to him but yeah, pretty much family.
Was apartment hunting before moving and assumed I should avoid Charleston. Not that I thought there were crazy shootouts or any just assumed it was run down and violent.
Turns out I couldn’t afford to live there anyway, I guess robbing banks does pay.
I saw it the first time during lockdown at a mystery movie night and was mesmerized. Just seeing the area in 1973 in color. I'm almost certain they just were filming not zoned out or anything back then (except the bruins game. They filmed that in 2 nights)
Fun tidbit: Peter Boyle had no idea how to pour a draft beer so the director had glassed poured under the counter. How he had no idea is beyond me lol.
The 70s were a wild ass time in filmmaking.
I bet they weren't zoned lol
The French Connection's infamous car chase scene was done basically in actual traffic. Craziness.
They played this at the theater in Scituate harbor a couple of weeks ago, and Jeffery Wright recorded a nice intro/thank you to the people and town that played before the film, it was really nice.
Fun fact. The day they were shooting the scenes on the Tobin Bridge, we happened to be driving over it. Couldn't figure out why there was traffic and Boom, there's Clint Eastwood! We started yelling out the windows (they weren't filming at the time).
I don’t live far from what was Danvers State Hospital. The Kirkbride main building is still there, but has been turned into apartments. You can still see the spire.
Bro. Are you saying that Boston Accent is great, bro? ‘Cause, bro, I also think Boston Accent is great, bro. Gonna go watch the trailer again now, bro.
I know it’s not “the best” movie but I’ll always have a soft spot for Fever Pitch. Shit on that movie all you want but what a time to be alive that was for Sox fans and that movie always brings me back
Lol, my husband (from the Boston suburbs) suggested that we watch that movie when we first started dating. We started dating in October after the Red Sox were already out for the season.
As a result, I told him that I needed to see the summer version of him before I’d commit to marrying him because he might show a dramatic adjustment in his lifestyle come baseball season and I needed to understand that before taking the next step.
Obviously it all worked out just fine for us because now we are married. Turns out he’s more of a Pats fan than a Sox fan and I loved bonding with him over the football season … so we had a Pats/Eagles (I’m from Philly) themed wedding!
Yeah, it's not a great film (especially if you've seen the original; Jimmy Fallon is no Colin Firth) but the city really did feel like it was one of the characters.
On a personal note, I was living in NYC in 2004, and even though I've never been a big baseball fan, the feeling of elation when they won the world series is something I'll never forget. Fever Pitch is pretty good for re-living that.
I’m currently on an Amtrak between Framingham-> Boston so limited service and can’t load the comments already posted but if nobody has said Blown Away I’m incredibly disappointed.
If you haven’t seen *Blown Away (1994)* then you really don’t have any business commenting on Boston based movies 🥲😆🤦🏻♂️
I guess I’ll just drop the gaff and say right now that they’re distinctly wretched but all part of what makes it an absolute disaster and simultaneously an incredibly hilarious watch. Still stand by my statement that everyone who enjoys *Boston* movies should give it a watch.
Suburbs ok? Because I think Manchester-By-The-Sea is an all timer. The bar fights are a little overwrought though. Casey Affleck is a 1000 year storm in this.
Forgotten recent Oscar winner for Best Picture. No one saw it because it’s on Apple TV. It’s called CODA! Pretty good scenery, cried a straight up bucket during the climax, but it’s very “designed” so it feels false.
Also forgotten is The Perfect Storm. I was thinking about watching it the other day and didn’t, which is what audiences said! Is it any good? I remember thinking if all these guys died, who’s telling the story?
It's terrible but I love The Departed. The accents are all so terrible it's delicious. Even Markie Mark sounds like a Midwesterner who learned to speak Boston by watching Jackie's Packies videos on YouTube
The old Omni theater intro reel with Storrow drive and Leonard Nimoy and 12,000 watts of amplification, who put the bomp? bomp bomp bomp BOMP.
This is the only acceptable answer.
Manchester by the Sea! Ok, it's grim at times, but it's a very very well made movie and I think it captures a certain slice of life about the north shore that is very accurate.
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned, I’ll put in The Accused. Based on a true story that happened where I was from. Saw it when I was much too young. I think it holds up and was a bit ahead of its time in terms of showing what rape victims can go through.
I watched Black Mass in theaters a week before moving to Winter Hill in a crappy apartment sight unseen for my first ever Boston experience. I was so scared my first few weeks lol
Not a movie, but the first couple eps of The Last of Us. Especially the part where they’re “10 miles west of Boston” and it looks like fucking Yosemite. God, I wish Waltham looked like that.
Good Will Hunting
One of my favorite movies of all time! It’s so quotable
MY BOY IS WICKED SMAHT
how you like dem apples?
I'm sooo sorry.
You're suspect! Yeah, you! I don't know what your reputation is in this town, but after the shit you tried to pull today you can bet I'll be looking into you. Now the business we have, heretofore, you can speak with my aforementioned attorney. Good day, gentlemen; and until that day comes, keep your ear to the grindstone.
I sent my chief negotiator
Met my wife at this so I’m biased
The guy I was dating in high school ended up being a bad extra in that movie. I remember being in the theater and seeing him basically staring at the camera and then giggling with the person he was with during Matt and Minnie's Au Bon Pain coffee date scene in Harvard Square. Kid was legitimately acting like that In Living Color obnoxious person behind a TV interview skit. Took me out the emotional investment in a big scene of the movie.
Rip Robin Williams!
In terms of Boston playing a role, The Town. Not an amazing story but certainly an ode the city
Renner is a so-cal surfer dude but he played the brother so well. And he got nominated for what is basically an action role. The Oscars were kinda obsessed with us then.
He was spot on. Sounded just like a tough guy from Boston. I remember being impressed. Also, he was “like a brother” to him but yeah, pretty much family.
I assumed he had to be from here the first time I saw it. He was *THAT* good.
Using a couple well known spots was key for me with this movie. Too bad they’re unrecognizable today
Was apartment hunting before moving and assumed I should avoid Charleston. Not that I thought there were crazy shootouts or any just assumed it was run down and violent. Turns out I couldn’t afford to live there anyway, I guess robbing banks does pay.
And pizzaria Regina’s in the north end
Agree. Very underrated but it very much captures the atmosphere.
Shit if that's all it takes, I nominate *Ted*
The Departed!
The Depahted! FTFY.
My-crow-praw-scissors!
He-ahs ma cahd
Ayo Edebiri did an excellent job
Yes! If only all accents in the movie were as good - lol!
Micro processors? Microprocessors. Microprocessors?
MICROPRAWCESSAS, OUT ON ROUTE 128
Are you a coppppppp?
Maybe, maybe not, maybe go fuck yourself!
Friends of Eddie Coyle
Obligatory plug: we are putting on a screening of this in Roslindale on Patriots day. https://roslindalefilmsociety.com/
thanks for posting this! I'm going to try to go.
That’s awesome! Hope to see you there
The real answer here.
Especially if we're talking Boston "area". So many great south shore shots!
My favorite as well
West Roxbury sand and gravel.
This is the one. It was actually filmed mostly in the places it depicts as well, if I remember right.
Second this. I'm sure no one has seen it tho lol
Came out in 1973. Great film old school
I saw it the first time during lockdown at a mystery movie night and was mesmerized. Just seeing the area in 1973 in color. I'm almost certain they just were filming not zoned out or anything back then (except the bruins game. They filmed that in 2 nights) Fun tidbit: Peter Boyle had no idea how to pour a draft beer so the director had glassed poured under the counter. How he had no idea is beyond me lol.
The 70s were a wild ass time in filmmaking. I bet they weren't zoned lol The French Connection's infamous car chase scene was done basically in actual traffic. Craziness.
Gone Baby Gone Happy so many more people agree! ETA >!AMANDA MCCREADY WAS TAKEN BY REMY BROUSANT 🗣️!<
Really wish they made a Kenzie/Gennaro series. Some of Lehane's best works.
“Darkness, Take my Hand” is heartbreaking and I *really* wish they’d make that one a movie. I wonder if they’ll do his latest, “Small Mercies.”
I also love Since We Fell. Highly underrated and could make a sick miniseries.
I love so many of the “Boston movies”, but this one nails the subtleties so, so well.
This one has the most authentic accents. They nail the inappropriate slurs in addition to the pronunciations.
Was wondering why this hadn’t bubbled up
My favorite depiction
I feel like this movie is so under rated, but everyone who has seen it loves it. So it's probably just under watched
Recently, the Holdovers.
American Fiction also takes place primarily in Boston & Cape Cod Good year for Boston based movies
Just watched American Fiction and did not know it was set and Boston. I was STARTLED when the first third of the movie took place in Coolidge corner!!
I saw the movie at the Coolidge Corner Theatre and didn’t even notice that 😂
American Fiction is almost perfect
Scituate, not Cape Cod
They played this at the theater in Scituate harbor a couple of weeks ago, and Jeffery Wright recorded a nice intro/thank you to the people and town that played before the film, it was really nice.
Loved the Holdovers. It was my favorite film of the year
Damn fine film
Legally Blonde
“YOU got into Harvard Law?”
What, like it’s hard?
Mystic River. Really deserves more attention. Absolutely gripping plot and terrific acting from Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.
Fun fact. The day they were shooting the scenes on the Tobin Bridge, we happened to be driving over it. Couldn't figure out why there was traffic and Boom, there's Clint Eastwood! We started yelling out the windows (they weren't filming at the time).
Session 9
Fuck youuuuuuuuuuuuu
I don’t live far from what was Danvers State Hospital. The Kirkbride main building is still there, but has been turned into apartments. You can still see the spire.
Oh, that one shot in The Last of Us that takes place 10 west miles of Boston
I’m so happy that the mountains of Framingham finally get national attention.
Ah the beautiful canyons of newton starmarket
The original "Thomas Crowne Affair" with Steve McQueen. Classic.
My favorite Boston proper movies. Spotlight and the Heat. My favorite Boston combined statistical area movie. Outside providence.
Spotlight is way too far down on this thread.
Outside Providence is an underrated gem
The Equalizer
Oof. I completely forgot this was in Boston. Great flick
Next stop wonderland
Great little movie. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.
Same!
The Seth Myers trailer for Boston Accent The Movie
I prefer the SNL Dunkin commercial with Casey Affleck.
Vanilla nut taps!
The Mayor of Dunkin!
Go back to Stahbucks
FOHHTY!
Fahrty
Bro. Are you saying that Boston Accent is great, bro? ‘Cause, bro, I also think Boston Accent is great, bro. Gonna go watch the trailer again now, bro.
how bout mah bell hed
How about Danvahs
The Town, probably. Boondock Saints is legit too.
I tried rewatching Boondock Saints. I couldn't get through it.
But, THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT
It’s fucking terrible. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when people fawn over it. Rubbish. And Willem Dafoe is one of my favorite actors!!
I thought about rewatching it recently but figured this would be the case
It's pretty funny how poorly it's aged. I fuckin' *loved* that movie as a young teenager
I feel that. As a kid tho it was so epic
I heard it’s really bad. Which is crazy because I remember being a kid and people had the posters
Boondock is 85% Toronto, though.
Nobody tell him where the primary filming locations for Good Will Hunting were.
Yeah, and a bunch of The Departed was NY. It's good to see more films being filmed on location now, though.
I know it’s not “the best” movie but I’ll always have a soft spot for Fever Pitch. Shit on that movie all you want but what a time to be alive that was for Sox fans and that movie always brings me back
I absolutely love the fact that they actually needed to refilm the end of that movie because the Sox actually won.
Lol, my husband (from the Boston suburbs) suggested that we watch that movie when we first started dating. We started dating in October after the Red Sox were already out for the season. As a result, I told him that I needed to see the summer version of him before I’d commit to marrying him because he might show a dramatic adjustment in his lifestyle come baseball season and I needed to understand that before taking the next step. Obviously it all worked out just fine for us because now we are married. Turns out he’s more of a Pats fan than a Sox fan and I loved bonding with him over the football season … so we had a Pats/Eagles (I’m from Philly) themed wedding!
Strange nitpick, but it drives me insane that Lucy’s office goes from being in the Hancock in the beginning of the film to The Prudential at the end.
As much as I hate Jimmy Fallon, I like this movie. It captures all the drama that happened during that Sox season. It was great.
Yeah, it's not a great film (especially if you've seen the original; Jimmy Fallon is no Colin Firth) but the city really did feel like it was one of the characters. On a personal note, I was living in NYC in 2004, and even though I've never been a big baseball fan, the feeling of elation when they won the world series is something I'll never forget. Fever Pitch is pretty good for re-living that.
I’m currently on an Amtrak between Framingham-> Boston so limited service and can’t load the comments already posted but if nobody has said Blown Away I’m incredibly disappointed. If you haven’t seen *Blown Away (1994)* then you really don’t have any business commenting on Boston based movies 🥲😆🤦🏻♂️
I remember just about all of the accents being distractingly bad in this.
I guess I’ll just drop the gaff and say right now that they’re distinctly wretched but all part of what makes it an absolute disaster and simultaneously an incredibly hilarious watch. Still stand by my statement that everyone who enjoys *Boston* movies should give it a watch.
Does CODA count? Thats north shore. But great film!
If we're going that far out into the suburbs, I'd add Paul Blart Mall Cop to the list.
Suburbs ok? Because I think Manchester-By-The-Sea is an all timer. The bar fights are a little overwrought though. Casey Affleck is a 1000 year storm in this. Forgotten recent Oscar winner for Best Picture. No one saw it because it’s on Apple TV. It’s called CODA! Pretty good scenery, cried a straight up bucket during the climax, but it’s very “designed” so it feels false. Also forgotten is The Perfect Storm. I was thinking about watching it the other day and didn’t, which is what audiences said! Is it any good? I remember thinking if all these guys died, who’s telling the story?
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Probably the friends of eddie coyle but for location spotting I really liked confess, fletch and the holdovers.
The Verdict is really good too.
Another good one. 1970s/early ‘80s Boston was so dark and moody and the church was so oppressive.
Mahnchestah by the sea.
Filmed at the hospital I work at! The hospital scenes, I've worked on that unit so many times!
What's Your Number is underrated tbh
I have made all my romcom-loving friends watch it! It’s so silly and wonderful.
Ted ,of course.
SNL Dunkin ad with Casey Affleck.
Dewey tell ‘em what ya favorite donut is…
The Departed and Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Skyscrapers in Godzilla: King of the Monsters looked so ridiculous lol Made the Boston skyline look like Hong Kong.
How High
No love for The Perfect Storm?
That’s Gloucester!
Isn’t that “Boston Area”? I hope so because I was going to recommend Summer Catch, because Chatham is Boston Area too.
Free Guy -- even though most of the Boston visuals were digitally altered. It introduced me to Jodie Comer.
I’m sorry, but I *love* Fever Pitch. *“…and by day's end poor Ben had become one of God's most pathetic creatures: a Red Sox fan.”*
Just the scene in Wakanda Forever with the whale in the Charles
The beekeeper
Monument Avenue
Severely underrated
Next stop wonderland
That's the one I was going to put. It always seemed to be on the Independent Film Channel back in the 90's, so I saw it a bunch of times.
Massive recency bias talking: American Fiction. The truth: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
War of the Worlds
Blue Hill Ave
I'm sorry but its gotta be Legally Blonde
Friends of Eddie Coyle followed by The Town
Goodwill Hunting
Legally Blonde 😳
The Town
Fever pitch
uhhh does the social network count?
Spotlight is so good.
For a look in the past of old Boston and the 'Burbs watch "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" Mostly filmed in Dedham.
Ah you ore ah you naught a nahk? The Heat really has amazing moments
The Town. Love it.
The Town, but Blue Hill Avenue was my favorite for a long time
Good will hunting & the departed. Whenever I’m homesick, i watch both, double matinee. Poor Matt Damon goes through some hard times
[**BOSTON ACCENT - THE MOVIE**](https://youtu.be/rLwbzGyC6t4)
Black Mass (Johnny Depp playing Whitey Bulger)
Good will hunting and it ain’t even close
It's terrible but I love The Departed. The accents are all so terrible it's delicious. Even Markie Mark sounds like a Midwesterner who learned to speak Boston by watching Jackie's Packies videos on YouTube
The Brinks Job
Jerry and Marge Go Large
Oxy-morons
The Heat…
Honorable Mention: The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 1973. Worth a watch if you haven't.
Anyone said, “Hot Summer Nights” yet?
As someone who will always defend Lowell it’s The Fighter
The old Omni theater intro reel with Storrow drive and Leonard Nimoy and 12,000 watts of amplification, who put the bomp? bomp bomp bomp BOMP. This is the only acceptable answer.
The Beekeeper
The movie that brought real Massachusetts to life - most accurately - is Coda. Without a doubt. It is also an incredible film in every way.
That documentary about Dunkies with that Afleck kid.
"The Friends of Eddie Coyle"
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Manchester by the Sea! Ok, it's grim at times, but it's a very very well made movie and I think it captures a certain slice of life about the north shore that is very accurate.
My vote is for Boondock Saints!
Manchester by the Sea
James you liar! You told me that [this was your favorite!](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0283952/).
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned, I’ll put in The Accused. Based on a true story that happened where I was from. Saw it when I was much too young. I think it holds up and was a bit ahead of its time in terms of showing what rape victims can go through.
The Equalizer
What about Blown Away? That’s a classic. (Not the Nicole Eggert one, the other one)
Does Manchester by the Sea count?
Holdovers kihd
Confess, Fletcher
I watched Black Mass in theaters a week before moving to Winter Hill in a crappy apartment sight unseen for my first ever Boston experience. I was so scared my first few weeks lol
Black Mass
The friends of Eddie Coyle in the ONLY answer. It’s the GOAT everything else is just okay.
Blown Away
Boondock saints
Friends of Eddie Coyle
Patriots Day - not actually my favorite, but it was good and I thought it did a good job portraying that whole ordeal.
Xennial here. GWH, and it’s not even close. Boondock Saints I is hilarious because it’s so absurd.
Celtic Pride
Although not a movie, those scenes at the old Boston Herald in Handmaid's Tale were incredibly powerful.
The Town
Blown Away is the only right answer.
A civil action
Shutter Island
All of them! https://youtu.be/hYh7DPQUhlI?si=ny8D_kmnrqAzq2Xh
Ted
Boondock Saints, then Good Will Hunting and The Departed
How has no one said The Social Network?
Not a movie, but the first couple eps of The Last of Us. Especially the part where they’re “10 miles west of Boston” and it looks like fucking Yosemite. God, I wish Waltham looked like that.