Cities in movies

I am a bit of a sucker for movies that make good use of a real-life setting.

For example:

Chicago in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Houston in Urban Cowboy and Bad News Bears II: Breaking Training (just kidding!)

Vienna in The Third Man

Of course, New York, LA and San Francisco are setting of many movies. Any others movies that you think captured a city, or at least a slice of it?

 

You stole mine!

 

I modified. Go for it.

 

The American Pie movies (set in Michigan) always had some quirky things related to Michigan. I think the movie was set in Grand Rapids.

During one of the films there was a band competition. During the competition, the leader board was shown.

It had a bunch of made up school names that were knockoffs of Michigan Schools.

Wayne Memorial was Lloyd Memorial
East Grand Rapids was East Great Falls and so on.

Anyway,

Beverly Hills Cop and 8 Mile (obviously) were set in Detroit as were a bunch of others. Too long to list for many cities I am sure.

 

Robocop seems like it was set in now present Detroit, as a matter of fact.

 

For all its flaws, Benjamin Button made great use of New Orleans.

 

Ha! Well as you said in your original post, the Blues Brothers does a great job with Chicago. The final chase scene is phenomenal (even if there are a few things that aren't physically possible) and I believe that sequence is the basis for the Chicago race in Cruisn USA (how's that for useless trivia).

 

I agree, I cannot think of a movie that pays a larger tribute to an area and a city than the Blues Brothers.

 

Kevin Smith's movies in Jersey.

 

Grosse Point?

 

Except that was just fake Michigan, the AP movies were actually filmed in the LA area. Not sure a film can "capture the essence of a place" if it's not actually filmed there or at least some place similar (which LA and Mich obviously are not). 8 Mile and Detroit works, though, that's a pretty good one.

Some others that pop in my head:

Scarface--early 80s Miami
The Big Easy--New Orleans
Fargo--Minnesota/Fargo
Blues Brothers--Chicagoland
Breaking Away--The IU campus/Bloomington
Rudy--the Notre Dame campus
In Bruges--Bruges (obviously)
Lost in Translation--Tokyo

 

Grosse Pointe was the home of Grosse Pointe Blank, obviously.

It had some filming for Gran Torino too, which IMO, was a great portrayal of Highland Park, possibly the worst city in Michigan.