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Chicago Magazine Names Top 40 Movies Filmed In Chicago (PHOTOS)
High Fidelity was #1.
It's a rich, textured movie that--like your favorite LP--only gets better with time. It defines Chicago as a city of doers, dreamers, and slackers--a real place for real lives.
I'm going to make my list before I click through but I'm not sure I can name 40.
I like that the list mentions Cooley High, a movie that isn't remembered much today but it really is a good film.
I've seen most of them...not that one, though. I'd blame my dad being from Joliet, but I'd bet a billion dollars we didn't watch "About Last Night" together. Phoenix has the most transplanted Chicagoans of any city, though.
Man I suck. I can't even think of ten unless I count Rudy (Glen Ellyn) and that terrible Keanu Reeves movie filmed at Argon labs.
...after checking the list... I haven't seen a lot of those and forgot some were filmed in Chicago but I'm a real doofus for forgetting Barbershop considering I can see my copy from where I'm sitting.
They neglected What Women Want. Not a great movie but surely better than Candyman with some great Chicago footage.
so, while I agree with the fact that many of the movies are listed, I disagree with the order. here's the link to Chicago Mag for anyone who wants to go there directly:
For example: when I think of the purpose of such a list, I think of how a film represents a city, celebrates, do you get to see it in all its glory, or a segment of it in rich detail (e.g. "Do The Right Thing" - though I don't know if that was actually filmed in NY or now)
There are some movies on the list where I wasn't left with a lasting impression of Chicago and I think that's a problem.
I'd blame my dad being from Joliet
So am I! What part of the city is he from, erika? I'm a west-side girl myself; I grew up in Shorewood, the suburb just west of Joliet, and went to high school at St. Francis Academy, now Joliet Catholic Academy since it went co-ed.
I don't think Spike Lee had the budget to go outside Bed-Stuy for DTRT.
I left When Harry Met Sally off my list because it doesn't feel like a Chicago movie.
it isn't! it is a NYC movie.