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Movies about small towns

Rock and Bull

about 1 year ago

I really love movies about small towns. Good examples of what I mean would be Bedford Falls from It’s a Wonderful Life, Radiator Springs from Cars, the town from Fargo, or Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show. They don’t have to fit any sort of genre, but I would especially like to see some classic comedies about them. I was wondering if anyone knew of other movies like this. This thread is kind of selfish, because I want reccomedations, but this would also be a good thread to discuss them.

Santino

about 1 year ago

Trapped in Paradise

Classic ‘90s Cage. It’s a guilty pleasure for sure.

Santino

about 1 year ago

The Ice Harvest

Underrated Ramis gem.

Drunken Father Figure of Old

about 1 year ago

How about U Turn?

Santino

about 1 year ago

^ahahaahahaa

You might as well have said Deliverance.

Drunken Father Figure of Old

about 1 year ago

Yeah, how about Deliverance?

DOUGLAS REESE

about 1 year ago

I’m not trying to be overbearing by plugging myself in … but …. my doc Son of Lucifer is very, very focused-in on a small town – one that shares a connection with a certain Oscar-winning actor. ;)

No-Limb Joe

about 1 year ago

Blue…velvet….
Whoa whoa…

Ari

about 1 year ago

“Classic ‘90s Cage. It’s a guilty pleasure for sure.”

Ahhh, I have a great memory going drunk to a preview screening of that film at University with some friends. I have never seen it again but we almost got thrown out of the screening.

christo​pher sepesy

about 1 year ago

None better than Some Came Running.

Hmmm … To Kill a MockingbirdPicnicMumford (an underrated gem from recent vintage) … Five Easy Pieces, certainly … Steve Martin’s RoxanneStand By Me … and that thing wherew Richard Dreyfuss plays the music teacher.

Scads more, I’m sure … especially all the 1950s horror films. They were always set in small towns.

Santino

about 1 year ago

@Ari – That’s the best way to see Trapped in Paradise!

Jirin

about 1 year ago

God’s Country
Fire Walk With Me
There Will Be Blood

No-Limb Joe

about 1 year ago

@christopher sepesy: Mr. Holland’s Opus is the movie you’re looking for.

Red Dawn
Hot Fuzz

Santino

about 1 year ago

I thought this was more geared towards comedies but if we’re talking about any genre, Shotgun Stories is a great small town movie. Actually, pretty much any small American indie film would fit this description (Ballast, Wendy & Lucy, early David Gordon Green, etc.).

TRILLYA KOVALCH​UK

about 1 year ago

BEAUTIFUL GIRLS by ted demme

watch it near xmas though OR ELSE

Brad S.

about 1 year ago

Shadow of a Doubt
Cookie’s Fortune

Rupert Pupkin

about 1 year ago

The Birds
Hot Fuzz

Josh Hansen

about 1 year ago

Terribly Happy fits this category perfectly and is well worth a look.

Temporarily reassigned to the provincial Danish town of Skarrild after being accused of professional misconduct in Copenhagen, a by-the-books policeman begins to sense that the hamlet has something truly sinister in its midst in this dark drama based on author Erling Jepsen’s novel of the same name. Constable Robert isn’t used to life in the country, so when he’s first confronted by the small-town customs of South Jutland he begins to feel as if he’s drifted into some kind of all-too-quaint alternate reality. But perhaps his suspicion that everything here is just a little too perfect isn’t just the result of simple culture shock, because the more Constable Robert gets to know about his new surroundings, the more convinced he becomes that the community of South Jutland harbors a disturbing secret. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Roscoe

about 1 year ago

OUR TOWN

DOGVILLE

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER AND UNCUT

Howard Fritzso​n

about 1 year ago

Peter Yates “Breaking Away.” A sleeper that was nominated for Best Picture of 1979.

Rock and Bull

about 1 year ago

Thank you all for the suggestions! I will have to check these out.

saz

about 1 year ago

how about “Feed the Fish” ?

Nathan M...

about 1 year ago

The best small town movie for my money is The Last Picture Show.

Ari

about 1 year ago

^ Nathan is correct although perhaps we can open up to small towns outside the U.S. Humanité is a great film about small town French life.

Jirin

about 1 year ago

Pleasantville
Sunrise
Groundhog Day

Santino

about 1 year ago

The Wicker Man

BALISTI​K

about 1 year ago

Grosse Pointe Blank

Doctor Lemongl​ow

about 1 year ago

Brad, I agree with SHADOW OF A DOUBT. Can’t get enough of it. That evening trip to the library is one of my top 25 sequences in a movie.

ROCK AND BULL:
You might enjoy
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
SOME CAME RUNNING
RACHEL RACHEL
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
THE GYPSY MOTHS
ADAM AT 6 A.M.
JUNIOR BONNER
PEYTON PLACE.
Also, in a separate category:
THE STEPFORD WIVES and INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)

Meg ͏

about 1 year ago

wake in fright
gummo
johnny guitar
local hero
high plains drifter
wendy and lucy
somersault
northfork
jindabyne
the year my voice broke

NIGHTSH​IFT

about 1 year ago

^Yey, Local Hero!

Coup De Torchon
Bad Day at Black Rock
Birds
I Vitteloni-(I know Rimini is a small coastal city off the Adriatic, however, Fellini treated it as a small sleepy town in the film.)