67 Films & TV Shows Set In New England During The 1980s
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Mystic Pizza
Connecticut The 1980sA romantic comedy with the works — Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
🇭🇹 Haiti Massachusetts The 1980s The 1970sDon't bury me... I'm not dead! — A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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Funny Farm
Vermont New York The 1980sChevy Chase finds life in the country isn't what it's cracked up to be! — Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
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Jaws: The Revenge
Massachusetts 🇧🇸 Bahamas The 1980sThis time, it’s personal. — After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
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The Witches of Eastwick
Rhode Island Massachusetts The 1980sThree Beautiful Women. One Lucky Devil. — Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
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Baby Boom
New York Vermont The 1980sAn unexpected comedy — The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Soul Man
Massachusetts The 1980sA comedy with heart and soul — A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.
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One Crazy Summer
Massachusetts The 1980sThey're out of school, out on Nantucket, and out of their minds. With this crowd, anything can happen! — An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
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The Challenge
Rhode Island The 1980sThe story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New York Yacht Club, after an unbroken 132 year winning streak.
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Splash
New York Massachusetts The 1980s The 1960sAllen Bauer Thought He'd Never Find The Right Woman... He Was Only Half Wrong! — A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
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In Heaven There Is No Beer?
Connecticut Illinois Minnesota Pennsylvania The 1960s The 1980sA joyous romp through the dance, food, music, friendship, and even religion of the Polka. The explosive energy and high spirits of the polka subculture are rendered with warmth and dedication to scholarship in this journey through Polish-American celebrations. Polka stars like Jimmy Sturr, Eddie Blazonzyck and Walt Solek are featured.
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The Verdict
New York Massachusetts New England The 1980sThe doctors want to settle, the Church wants to settle, their lawyers want to settle, and even his own clients are desperate to settle. But Galvin is determined to defy them all. He will try the case. — Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
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Hanky Panky
New York Maine Massachusetts Arizona The 1980sWhen you're wanted for a murder you didn't commit, chased for secrets you didn't steal, and running from people who want to kill you, the worst mistake you can make is falling in love... — The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
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Pieces
Massachusetts The 1980s The 1940sIt's exactly what you think it is! — A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
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Ben's Mill
Vermont The 1980s1982 documentary film directed by Michel Chalufour and John Karol. The film portrays how the energy from the river is used to drive the multitudes of leather belts used to drive the various machines. The film focuses on the steps one man, Ben, uses to make one of his white pine watering tanks.
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Miracle on Ice
Minnesota New York Massachusetts Colorado The 1970s The 1980sHockey coach Herb Brooks leads Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig and team to a gold medal in the 1980 Olympics.
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The House by the Cemetery
New York Massachusetts The 1980sRead the fine print. You may have just mortgaged your life. — After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his research and moves his family from New York City to the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.