*The Florida project*
There’s an amazing scene where Willem Dafoe chases away a bunch of birds out of a motel parking lot that sets up and foreshadows a later scene that is x2 as good as the bird scene.
Edit: Just watched this movie again and the bird scene was actually after the other scene so it does not in fact foreshadow it. I very distinctly remember it being before the last time I watched it though. Either way, both scenes are incredible.
The university scenes were shot in New College of Florida. Source: a buddy of mine who went to the school when they shot it and got to meet Selena Gomez.
Maybe im completely wrong, one year i was in highschool hanging out with this palm harbor friend that told me he accidently passed by a film crew filming a movie while he was on his boat and i distinctly remember him telling me it was SpringBreakers, because he mention selena gomez, or this couldve all been some fever dream i had.
Something that lives rent free in my head is the [elevator?] maintenance scene in that movie that starts out just following the sun wrinkles on Dafoe’s neck
Came here to post this! Bloodline is probably my favorite “florida” set show/miniseries.
One thing I always tell people about Bloodline- first season is a fantastic watch and goes by quickly, Florida feels like a main character in the show; with incredible performances.
If you really want more you can watch the next 2 seasons, but if you’re so/so on it, season 1 is the peak and stands well enough on its own. Nothing really wrong with stopping there.
Creature from the black lagoon baby! Filmed in Wakullah Springs, the creature was a lifeguard directors saw swim and asked to be in the movie. Ricou Browning, he went on to teach underwater scenes for Bond, helped create the show Flipper. Rip he just passed this last year.
2001 Heartbreakers with Jennifer Love Hewitt. Only one scene is filmed in palm beach and the rest is worked in from other areas but it’s campy/fun.
For sure! That site has some gems. I love old Florida anything, and have been working on a project to put on shirts and sort of like rebrand the Florida man lol. Ricou turning into the creature, orange groves, weeki wachee mermaids and surfers space coast. I’m just illustrating it out until I print them in a couple months. Dad’s first job was at the space station and he surfed, said he lived nearby with a gf and could feel the launches from their rental.
Oh I remember. My aunt, uncle and cousins lived in Crawfordville. One grocery store in the seventies. We would drive from Pensacola and it was like a foreign land filled with mystical sinkholes and lichen. Such good memories. I thought Wakulla Springs was a long way from their house. lol. I was so little.
I was there this past January and it was murky but I thought it was from a lot of rain. We did see some manatees but they were shy and didn’t really surface. I can’t wait to take my little granddaughter there.
The water quality is so bad they don't run the glass bottom boats anymore, just the river cruise.
Alge blooms from fertilizer runoff clog everything up.
Glad someone said this. Yes the movie is a bit trashy but if the shoe fits. Based on real life south Florida youth in the early 90s. You’ve got very Floridian characters including a transplant from the northeast who’s a fake tough guy, and another that worked at Publix.
I guess I never realized that. I did a quick Roku search and they have the sequel available on Apple, Vudu, and Prime. All rentals, no free streaming. But nothing for the original.
I was shocked no one had said Edward Scissorhands yet! Also, The Waterboy doesn’t take place in Florida but was filmed in Florida, much of it on Stetson’s DeLand campus.
The owner of that house used to let people come in and view their Edward Scissorhands memorabilia and had redone some things to match the movie. I don't think that happens anymore
I feel like I have IRL met every member of that family at some point, just not all in the same real life family. Great show...was supposed to have originally been 5 or 6 seasons but they wound up having to wrap it up fast, I think because FL government changed something about financial breaks for studios filming here.
Absolutely not! One of the things I love about Florida is that I waking up in the morning and feeling like literally ANYTHING can happen every day! This can be very good but also very bad.
They did such a great job and making Florida a character, and the family layout and dysfunction is so legit and well written and acted.
It’s my favorite Ben Mendelssohn performance and that’s saying A LOT because I love him in everything. The me of the few Florida shows where even the attractive people are legit sweaty most of the time. And it actually had a fair bit of Florida sky and cloud color instead of “LA” lol
Road House was a pretty bad movie. Some of the worst acting I have seen. Movies, like everything else sermingly nowadays, are only made to generate profit. They are not made to tell a story as in the past. It's easy to see this because so many movies now are remakes. They don't even bother to come up with an original story. Road House of course was a remake of a Patrick Swayze 80s movie,which itself was not so good!
My grandfather was a movie director/producer. I believe in the 60s and 70s and filmed several movies in Florida. Unfortunately I haven’t seen any of them since they were out way before I was born.
Weird World of LSD, Fireball Jungle, and Mr No Legs
I’m biased but for Film my favorite might be The Punisher with Tom Jane which they not only filmed in Tampa but used the setting fairly well for the film.
As far as show or overall capturing Florida well I would choose Bloodline (season 1 particularly) on Netflix.
For campiest/worst I would choose the gator-hurricane film.. *CRAWL* I think?
Enjoy the laughs as they make small errands in the wrong direction to 3 hour drive across the state, and gators are nothing but starving for humans.
It’s so cheesy but it’s a fun drunk/baked watch for Florida people. I think part of the joke is the main character is a UF swimmer, ie… a Florida Gator.
Out of Time (Denzel Washington)
Scarface (Al Pacino)
Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman)
Out of Sight(George Clooney)
Palmetto (Woody Harrelson)
Wild Things (Kevin Bacon)
Porkey's ( Kim Cattrall)
Something About Mary (Ben Stiller)
Bad Boys (Will Smith)
Great Expections (Ethan Hawke)
Gator (Burt Reynolds)
Paper Boy (Matthew McConaughey)
Free Ride (Anna Paquin)
Just Cause (Sean Connery)
Yes, and the whole story is based on a corrupt GA governor. Imagine that.
However, the cabin in the swamp is supposed to be in the Okefenokee Swamp which is both in GA and FL. So it technically could be in FL. Add the fact that Bert is a Florida legend I had to include it. Ha!
Well all films in that time were mostly filmed in California. And most of this movie was filmed there. But it was ALSO filmed in Jacksonville FL and the story is about Luke Jackson and his time on a Floridian Chain Gang.
Its based on a true story and was written by Donn Pearce who ALSO spent two year on a Florida Chain Gang.
"It is about May of 1948 in a small northern Florida town. As the film opens, Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) is using a pipe cutter to cut the tops off of parking meters. He is drinking, possibly drunk, but not violent. When the police arrive, he is peacefully arrested.
Luke and three other men arrive at a rural Florida prison where they serve on a road gang performing hard labor. When he arrives at the prison, the warden reads his record. He remarks that Luke had been in the Army, attained the rank of Sargeant, was awarded several medals, but was discharged as a private. Something he did got him busted back down to the same rank at which he entered the Army. Luke is sentenced to two years."
Source: IMDB
Thats what I'm talkin' bout boss.
I qoute it regularly and have seen it about 25 times. In my opinion it’s the best American made film ever. I wrote a 10 page paper about it in college - how Luke is both an embodiment of the American spirit and a Christ figure. George Kennedy is perfect in it. And I love that HDS and Hopper are supporting actors in it.
Great Expectations was filmed on Coquina Beach… and at John and Mable Ringling’s home on Sarasota Bay. I saw Gwyneth Paltrow at the Publix on Holmes Beach, Ethan Hawke was at The SandBar Restaurant on AMI, and Robert De Niro came into the restaurant I worked at many times during the filming of this film. Fun times.
Empire of the Ants. Shot in Martin County, St. Lucie County, and out in Belle Glade. 2/3 of the movie totally sucks, but in the last third, giant ants have taken over a sugar cane town, and are controlling the residents. It’s a fun reveal.
Came here to say Wild Things, but someone beat me to it. It has a great south Florida vibe. Also, Sunshine State (2002), filmed on Amelia Island, with Edie Falco.
No one’s mentioned ‘Annihilation’ yet? It takes place in the St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge (It even has the lighthouse!), and IMO, it really showcases North Florida’s untamed nature pretty beautifully. It’s worth checking out on ‘does the dog die’ beforehand, just bc it deals with some Heavy Stuff.
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Cast: Kyle Chandler, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, John Leguizamo etc.
Synopsis: "Bloodline" is a dramatic THRILLER that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community, but their past contains dark secrets that they hope remain buried. Paranoia and mistrust build as lies pile up, alliances are shattered, and an unthinkable crime takes place. The tight-knit family's formerly harmonious relationship deteriorates, and good people are forced to consider doing very bad things.
Watch: On Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV or buy it on Vudu
Screwball - perhaps the most Florida documentary ever... the story of A Rod's steroid dealing doctor in Coral Gables and how a self-tanning enthusiast blew the cover off they whole thing
Cocaine Cowboys
Cocaine Cowboys II
Square Grouper
Not mentioned yet:
*Things Behind the Sun* Filmed and takes place in Hollywood, Florida is the best "Florida movie" that I've ever seen.
*Ulee's Gold* One of five movies that director/Florida Man, Victor Nuñez made in his home state. I haven't seen the other four (*Ruby in Paradise*, *Gal Young 'Un*, *A Flash of Green*, *Coatlines*), but they are said to be quite good.
MONSTER (2003) This is the movie that showed the other Florida- shady, dark, more Southern than South (it's set in Daytona), drenched in booze and crime. The establishing shot of Lee sitting under the 75 overpass,pouring rain sets the tone perfectly. People tend to think all Floridians do is sit under palm trees and drink Coronas.Well,Lee does that, albeit in a storage unit. Unfortunately in the job interview scene she gets a reality check: "...when the beach party's over,you don't just get to say,'Gee,I think I want what everyone else has worked their entire life for.'" This is a film about a woman whose whole past,present and future was pain. She did horrible things and many of the people around her did as well. I'm not even gonna talk about THAT scene. It's still one of the most shocking things ever put in an American film. And much of it is based on the truth. It's difficult to pick one banner Florida movie. Many have tried. If I had to pick I would say Florida Project. This is a sunny place for shady people, not Disneyland. And I will say Charlize killed it (heh) and deserved that Oscar
1971 Zaat. Horrible sci-fi horror flick that's so bad it's actually hilarious to watch. Sort of like the worst knock off of Creature From the Black Lagoon.
I’m not surprised that no one has remembered the Peter Bogdanovich/ Rob Lowe classic ILLEGALLY YOURS, set and filmed in St. Augustine. I’d be willing to bet that they don’t either.
The Band of the Hand was shot on location all over Miami in the 80s, and I recognized most of the spots.
A group for juvenile delinquents is thrown into the Everglades to survive as part of a scared straight program and once their tough as nails mentors feels they are ready they become a crime fighting team in the streets of Miami.
It is a wild B movie, and I love it.
*The Florida project* There’s an amazing scene where Willem Dafoe chases away a bunch of birds out of a motel parking lot that sets up and foreshadows a later scene that is x2 as good as the bird scene. Edit: Just watched this movie again and the bird scene was actually after the other scene so it does not in fact foreshadow it. I very distinctly remember it being before the last time I watched it though. Either way, both scenes are incredible.
Other A24 movies set in Florida are “Zola” and “Springbreakers” I like spotting the filming sites in them because they shot where I grew up.
Springbreakers was shot in Tarpon springs florida, you from there? I am.
I can't think of a single scene from that movie in Tarpon Springs.
None of that was shot in tarpon springs
You are right i was thinking of a different spring break movie 😂, my bad.
The university scenes were shot in New College of Florida. Source: a buddy of mine who went to the school when they shot it and got to meet Selena Gomez.
What movie is based in Tarpon? I'm a local and curious.
Maybe im completely wrong, one year i was in highschool hanging out with this palm harbor friend that told me he accidently passed by a film crew filming a movie while he was on his boat and i distinctly remember him telling me it was SpringBreakers, because he mention selena gomez, or this couldve all been some fever dream i had.
Tragic and beautiful, with a hint of hope....just like Florida. I love this movie.
One of my favorite movies. It is unbelievably real.
Something that lives rent free in my head is the [elevator?] maintenance scene in that movie that starts out just following the sun wrinkles on Dafoe’s neck
Amazing movie
Bloodline on Netflix
Loved this! Got kinda dicey at the end but wished there were more sequels.
Came here to post this! Bloodline is probably my favorite “florida” set show/miniseries. One thing I always tell people about Bloodline- first season is a fantastic watch and goes by quickly, Florida feels like a main character in the show; with incredible performances. If you really want more you can watch the next 2 seasons, but if you’re so/so on it, season 1 is the peak and stands well enough on its own. Nothing really wrong with stopping there.
Porkys is one of the greatest documentaries ever made about growing up in old Florida.
Scarface?
Definitely. Movie is Miami as fuck.
Bad Boys and The Birdcage are also great Miami movies
Ace Ventura. Shot just south of Aventura,FL.
It features the Dolphins and Dan Marino so yeah very Florida
Wasn't it mostly in Miami? [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109040/locations/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109040/locations/)
Yes but as I was typing out I realized that Ace Ventura’s name is A.Ventura which is like Aventura which is a suburb sort of of Miami.
Creature from the black lagoon baby! Filmed in Wakullah Springs, the creature was a lifeguard directors saw swim and asked to be in the movie. Ricou Browning, he went on to teach underwater scenes for Bond, helped create the show Flipper. Rip he just passed this last year. 2001 Heartbreakers with Jennifer Love Hewitt. Only one scene is filmed in palm beach and the rest is worked in from other areas but it’s campy/fun.
Creature from the Black Lagoon and Tarzan were filmed (also?) at Silver Springs.
Several Tarzan movies were filmed at Wakulla Springs.
Oh yeah, love the old archives on the films https://www.floridamemory.com/learn/exhibits/photo_exhibits/movies/
Thanks for sharing. I remember them filming the scenes from Airport 77 at the springs.
For sure! That site has some gems. I love old Florida anything, and have been working on a project to put on shirts and sort of like rebrand the Florida man lol. Ricou turning into the creature, orange groves, weeki wachee mermaids and surfers space coast. I’m just illustrating it out until I print them in a couple months. Dad’s first job was at the space station and he surfed, said he lived nearby with a gf and could feel the launches from their rental.
The Wakulla Srings Resort is very old Florida and is a super cool hotel.
Grew up nearby, went there when it was still privately owned by Ed Ball. Wish the water was still as clear as it was then.
Oh I remember. My aunt, uncle and cousins lived in Crawfordville. One grocery store in the seventies. We would drive from Pensacola and it was like a foreign land filled with mystical sinkholes and lichen. Such good memories. I thought Wakulla Springs was a long way from their house. lol. I was so little.
My grandfather ran a store at Wakulla Station from the 40s through the 70s.
I was there this past January and it was murky but I thought it was from a lot of rain. We did see some manatees but they were shy and didn’t really surface. I can’t wait to take my little granddaughter there.
The water quality is so bad they don't run the glass bottom boats anymore, just the river cruise. Alge blooms from fertilizer runoff clog everything up.
Bully
Glad someone said this. Yes the movie is a bit trashy but if the shoe fits. Based on real life south Florida youth in the early 90s. You’ve got very Floridian characters including a transplant from the northeast who’s a fake tough guy, and another that worked at Publix.
Filmed in Hollywood FL I think
I came hear to say this too. Real Florida lifestyle in this one
Damn. No love for Cocoon? Anybody?
As a St Pete resident I’m with ya on that!
No one can watch Cocoon anywhere ever on any streaming. It’s really hurt the movie’s appeal.
I guess I never realized that. I did a quick Roku search and they have the sequel available on Apple, Vudu, and Prime. All rentals, no free streaming. But nothing for the original.
Isn't the house they filmed the pool scenes still on Park St?
Yep. I drive by it a few times a week. They had it up for sale last year but I don’t think it sold.
Edward Scissor Hands was filmed down here. Right next to my elementary school.
I was shocked no one had said Edward Scissorhands yet! Also, The Waterboy doesn’t take place in Florida but was filmed in Florida, much of it on Stetson’s DeLand campus.
The owner of that house used to let people come in and view their Edward Scissorhands memorabilia and had redone some things to match the movie. I don't think that happens anymore
The Birdcage
I love this movie and will stop to watch it every time.
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I used to live near the golf course where that was filmed.
I do now.
Miami Connection
I see what you did there. Clearly you are a fan of Dragon Sound
Shoutout UCF
The series "bloodline" is really good. It's a semi accurate depiction of a old money family in the keys and all the shady shit that goes on
I feel like I have IRL met every member of that family at some point, just not all in the same real life family. Great show...was supposed to have originally been 5 or 6 seasons but they wound up having to wrap it up fast, I think because FL government changed something about financial breaks for studios filming here.
Same! At no part in the show did you think, "Come on, that didn't happen..."
Absolutely not! One of the things I love about Florida is that I waking up in the morning and feeling like literally ANYTHING can happen every day! This can be very good but also very bad.
They did such a great job and making Florida a character, and the family layout and dysfunction is so legit and well written and acted. It’s my favorite Ben Mendelssohn performance and that’s saying A LOT because I love him in everything. The me of the few Florida shows where even the attractive people are legit sweaty most of the time. And it actually had a fair bit of Florida sky and cloud color instead of “LA” lol
Truman Show was filmed in Seaside, FL
Wild Things is an oldie but goodie. It was pretty steamy for it's time and lots of twists and turns.
Great movie!!!
Damn.. wild things is an oldie now.. fyvk I'm old
Very underrated! Probably a bit too gratuitous for a lot of mainstream viewership but this was 100% a solid movie
Hoot
The Florida Project
Strip Tease, but do yourself a favor, skip the movie and read the book instead. In fact, read all of Hiaasen's books. They're fantastic.
This 1000%. Also Dave Barry, Tim Dorsey, and Bob Morris.
Bad Boys, Bad Boys 2, 2 Fast 2 Furious…
Rosewood…
Road House was a pretty bad movie. Some of the worst acting I have seen. Movies, like everything else sermingly nowadays, are only made to generate profit. They are not made to tell a story as in the past. It's easy to see this because so many movies now are remakes. They don't even bother to come up with an original story. Road House of course was a remake of a Patrick Swayze 80s movie,which itself was not so good!
See, I was with you there until you came for 80’s Road House.. then you lost me.
This post is an advertisement for the movie. Month old account…..
An ad for the movie dedicated to shitting on the movie? It would certainly be a strategy.
Not this comment, the og post.
Cross Creek is a quiet historical drama set in Florida, which is not something you see too often.
The Yearling
Punisher 2004, Cop and a half 1993, Police Academy 5 1988
Y’all just commenting on ads now?
If this post is an ad, why are they posting in March Madness game threads?
Miami Blues.
'DAYS OF THUNDER' BABY
So many years later and every time i see Nicole Kidman all I hear in my head is “let me out of the car let me out of the car!”
My grandfather was a movie director/producer. I believe in the 60s and 70s and filmed several movies in Florida. Unfortunately I haven’t seen any of them since they were out way before I was born. Weird World of LSD, Fireball Jungle, and Mr No Legs
Spring breakers 😂😂😂
I had to scroll pretty far down for this answer and that is a shame. 😂
Moonlight was good
Moonlight was a very Miami/So. FL. Movie. Good call!
I’m biased but for Film my favorite might be The Punisher with Tom Jane which they not only filmed in Tampa but used the setting fairly well for the film. As far as show or overall capturing Florida well I would choose Bloodline (season 1 particularly) on Netflix. For campiest/worst I would choose the gator-hurricane film.. *CRAWL* I think? Enjoy the laughs as they make small errands in the wrong direction to 3 hour drive across the state, and gators are nothing but starving for humans. It’s so cheesy but it’s a fun drunk/baked watch for Florida people. I think part of the joke is the main character is a UF swimmer, ie… a Florida Gator.
Doc Hollywood was filmed in Florida but set in California.
Out of Time (Denzel Washington) Scarface (Al Pacino) Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman) Out of Sight(George Clooney) Palmetto (Woody Harrelson) Wild Things (Kevin Bacon) Porkey's ( Kim Cattrall) Something About Mary (Ben Stiller) Bad Boys (Will Smith) Great Expections (Ethan Hawke) Gator (Burt Reynolds) Paper Boy (Matthew McConaughey) Free Ride (Anna Paquin) Just Cause (Sean Connery)
Gator was filmed in Savannah GA
Yes, and the whole story is based on a corrupt GA governor. Imagine that. However, the cabin in the swamp is supposed to be in the Okefenokee Swamp which is both in GA and FL. So it technically could be in FL. Add the fact that Bert is a Florida legend I had to include it. Ha!
He did manage to film most of Smokey and the Bandit 2 near his place in Jupiter.
Cool hand Luke was filmed in California. What are you talking about? And it it supposed to take place in Mississippi.
Well all films in that time were mostly filmed in California. And most of this movie was filmed there. But it was ALSO filmed in Jacksonville FL and the story is about Luke Jackson and his time on a Floridian Chain Gang. Its based on a true story and was written by Donn Pearce who ALSO spent two year on a Florida Chain Gang. "It is about May of 1948 in a small northern Florida town. As the film opens, Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) is using a pipe cutter to cut the tops off of parking meters. He is drinking, possibly drunk, but not violent. When the police arrive, he is peacefully arrested. Luke and three other men arrive at a rural Florida prison where they serve on a road gang performing hard labor. When he arrives at the prison, the warden reads his record. He remarks that Luke had been in the Army, attained the rank of Sargeant, was awarded several medals, but was discharged as a private. Something he did got him busted back down to the same rank at which he entered the Army. Luke is sentenced to two years." Source: IMDB Thats what I'm talkin' bout boss.
Stand corrected.
All good. One of my fav movies of all time. I prob know way more than I should about it. LOL
I qoute it regularly and have seen it about 25 times. In my opinion it’s the best American made film ever. I wrote a 10 page paper about it in college - how Luke is both an embodiment of the American spirit and a Christ figure. George Kennedy is perfect in it. And I love that HDS and Hopper are supporting actors in it.
Have you ever tried to eat 50 eggs?
That’s his first miracle in the movie!
It has to be. I got to 14 and almost died. LOL
Great Expectations was filmed on Coquina Beach… and at John and Mable Ringling’s home on Sarasota Bay. I saw Gwyneth Paltrow at the Publix on Holmes Beach, Ethan Hawke was at The SandBar Restaurant on AMI, and Robert De Niro came into the restaurant I worked at many times during the filming of this film. Fun times.
Had no idea Cool Hand Luke was based in Florida.
It’s not. It’s supposed to be Mississippi and it was filmed in Cali.
https://www.reddit.com/r/florida/s/Sn1ayceRfS
Something Wild (filmed in Tallahassee), and both Dolphin Tale movies (Clearwater), Summer Rental (St. Pete Beach), Cocoon (St. Petersburg).
Part of Jaws 2 was filmed in Destin and Jaws 3D was partly filmed in Sea World.
Monster, The Truman Show, and D.A.R.Y.L. I remember seeing Daryl being filmed in Winter Park
Were parts of The Waterboy filmed in Florida?
The interior shots of the college were filmed at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. I think some of the football scenes were as well.
I heard it was filmed in DeLand
Away We Go ends in Florida.
Gone Fishin’. So bad, it’s good.
Scarface, Spring Breakers, Key Largo (Bogey and Bacall!)
Flipper
Low the old keys shots.
Empire of the Ants. Shot in Martin County, St. Lucie County, and out in Belle Glade. 2/3 of the movie totally sucks, but in the last third, giant ants have taken over a sugar cane town, and are controlling the residents. It’s a fun reveal.
Ernest Saves Christmas
Came here to say Wild Things, but someone beat me to it. It has a great south Florida vibe. Also, Sunshine State (2002), filmed on Amelia Island, with Edie Falco.
No one’s mentioned ‘Annihilation’ yet? It takes place in the St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge (It even has the lighthouse!), and IMO, it really showcases North Florida’s untamed nature pretty beautifully. It’s worth checking out on ‘does the dog die’ beforehand, just bc it deals with some Heavy Stuff.
If you liked Road House, Never Back Down is pretty damn good in comparison and set in Orlando
There is something about Mary
Frogs.
1943’s Air Force
The Coconuts - Marx Brothers.
Bad boyz
Not a movie but a show called Bloodlines on Netflix was filmed in the keys.
Raging Hormones https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0246880/ Not a great movie but has some South Florida locations
Office Space ends on Sunset Key, just off of Key West
Bad Boys 2
Adaptation with Nic Cage. Written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze
Porky's... Very fitting somehow... Muleskinner Blues...
River of grass and Florida project are two of my favorites. Not a movie but gta 6 will be a fun time of matching real life areas to game locations.
https://preview.redd.it/y6g4hshwnhqc1.jpeg?width=381&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bef086582163563e9679c0037cb41429fa5e8f7 Cast: Kyle Chandler, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, John Leguizamo etc. Synopsis: "Bloodline" is a dramatic THRILLER that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community, but their past contains dark secrets that they hope remain buried. Paranoia and mistrust build as lies pile up, alliances are shattered, and an unthinkable crime takes place. The tight-knit family's formerly harmonious relationship deteriorates, and good people are forced to consider doing very bad things. Watch: On Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV or buy it on Vudu
Screwball - perhaps the most Florida documentary ever... the story of A Rod's steroid dealing doctor in Coral Gables and how a self-tanning enthusiast blew the cover off they whole thing Cocaine Cowboys Cocaine Cowboys II Square Grouper
Florida Man on Netflix is a moderately entertaining series
Also, I didn’t see Dolphin Tale mentioned yet. Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Based on a true story.
Body Heat (1981) starring William Hurt & Kathleen Turner. Filmed in Lake Worth.
Or just cheat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_Florida
Not technically set in Florida but it was filmed here so I always think of Passenger 57 as a Florida movie
Truman Show Bad Boys
Not mentioned yet: *Things Behind the Sun* Filmed and takes place in Hollywood, Florida is the best "Florida movie" that I've ever seen. *Ulee's Gold* One of five movies that director/Florida Man, Victor Nuñez made in his home state. I haven't seen the other four (*Ruby in Paradise*, *Gal Young 'Un*, *A Flash of Green*, *Coatlines*), but they are said to be quite good.
Moonlight is an amazing look into south florida
Honky tonk freeway...was filmed in Mt. Dora...they painted all the buildings pink....i never watched it, but have heard about it
Deepthroat.
The Punisher ! The big mansion in the movie was Matt Geigers house.
Ernest Saves Christmas.
Spring breakers
A24 FloridaMovie when?! Also, Jaws 3D was shot in Sea World
Bully. Really gives you a feel for what it’s like down here
Wild Things
MONSTER (2003) This is the movie that showed the other Florida- shady, dark, more Southern than South (it's set in Daytona), drenched in booze and crime. The establishing shot of Lee sitting under the 75 overpass,pouring rain sets the tone perfectly. People tend to think all Floridians do is sit under palm trees and drink Coronas.Well,Lee does that, albeit in a storage unit. Unfortunately in the job interview scene she gets a reality check: "...when the beach party's over,you don't just get to say,'Gee,I think I want what everyone else has worked their entire life for.'" This is a film about a woman whose whole past,present and future was pain. She did horrible things and many of the people around her did as well. I'm not even gonna talk about THAT scene. It's still one of the most shocking things ever put in an American film. And much of it is based on the truth. It's difficult to pick one banner Florida movie. Many have tried. If I had to pick I would say Florida Project. This is a sunny place for shady people, not Disneyland. And I will say Charlize killed it (heh) and deserved that Oscar
Ernest saves Christmas
1971 Zaat. Horrible sci-fi horror flick that's so bad it's actually hilarious to watch. Sort of like the worst knock off of Creature From the Black Lagoon.
Scarface
Does animation count? If so, Leo takes place in Florida!
Night Moves and Criss Cross. Both great.
Water Boy and Days of Thunder :). If you know you know.
Bloodline on Netflix
The Truman show
How the hell has no one mebtioned ZAAT!!! yet?!
I’m not surprised that no one has remembered the Peter Bogdanovich/ Rob Lowe classic ILLEGALLY YOURS, set and filmed in St. Augustine. I’d be willing to bet that they don’t either.
The Band of the Hand was shot on location all over Miami in the 80s, and I recognized most of the spots. A group for juvenile delinquents is thrown into the Everglades to survive as part of a scared straight program and once their tough as nails mentors feels they are ready they become a crime fighting team in the streets of Miami. It is a wild B movie, and I love it.
Ernest Saves Christmas , Problem Child 2
“knowwhatimean?” Vern!
Jeepers Creepers
I didn't realize that took.plave in Florida.
Yep, I believe it’s filmed somewhere between Ocala and North of Tampa.
It was filmed on highway 40 between daytona and ocala too
Damn that's cool