265 Films & TV Shows Set In New England During The 20th Century
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Rhode Island The 1980sThe evolution of dumb... — This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece the school.
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Mona Lisa Smile
Massachusetts The 1950sIn a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live. — The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
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Overnight
Massachusetts The 1990s The 2000sThere's more than one way to shoot yourself — Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.
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When Stand Up Stood Out
Massachusetts The 1970s The 1980sDocumentary covering what came to be known as "The Boston Gold Rush" of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Boston stand-up comedians like Dennis Leary, Steven Wright and Colin Quinn burst upon the national scene, giving audiences a taste of the hard-edged social and political commentary that came out of that city.
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Good Fences
Connecticut The 1970sSet in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to moves his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
New York Massachusetts The 1990sWhen there was nothing to believe in, she believed in herself. — Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
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Our Town
New Hampshire The 1900s The 1910sOur Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives. Using metatheatrical devices, Wilder sets the play in a 1930s theater. He uses the actions of the Stage Manager to create the town of Grover's Corners for the audience. Scenes from its history between the years of 1901 and 1913 play out. Originally broadcast on the Showtime Network, then as part of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre" (season 33, episode 1).
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The Rules of Attraction
New Hampshire The 1980sWe all run on instinct — The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
🇲🇽 Mexico New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania California 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSome things are better left top secret. — Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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Carrie
Maine The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCarrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
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Far from Heaven
Connecticut The 1950sWhat imprisons desires of the heart? — In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
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Eight Crazy Nights
New Hampshire The 1980s The 2000sIt's naughty. It's nice. It's animated. — Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far.
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The Rookie
Connecticut Virginia Texas The 1990sSometimes dreams come back to life. — Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
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Intimate Affairs
Massachusetts The 1920sHe uncovered their secrets. — When a scholar is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
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Murder in Greenwich
Connecticut The 1970s The 1990sThe story of Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old girl murdered in Greenwich in the 1970s. Her murder went unsolved for 25 years.
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A Beautiful Mind
Massachusetts New Jersey Virginia The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1990sHe saw the world in a way no one could have imagined. — John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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Wet Hot American Summer
Maine The 1980sHigh Times. Hard Bodies. Soft Rock. — The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
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Blow
New York Massachusetts California 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Story. — A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
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Riding in Cars with Boys
Connecticut The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sOne day can make your life; one day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything. — A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
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Hearts in Atlantis
Connecticut The 1960sWhat if one of life's great mysteries moved in upstairs? — A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
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Amy & Isabelle
Maine The 1970sIn 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is seduced by her mathematic teacher Peter Robertson, the world of Isabelle falls apart. She becomes lost and loses her confidence on Amy, spoiling their relationship. Their bond gets tied again when Isabelle discloses her inner secrets from the past to Amy.
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The Perfect Storm
Massachusetts Atlantic Ocean The 1990sThe storm is coming. — In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure.
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Thirteen Days
Connecticut Florida District of Columbia 🇨🇺 Cuba The 1960sYou'll never believe how close we came — The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
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Common Ground
Connecticut The 1950s The 1970s The 2000sThis movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts", a teacher in a 1970's classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. Finally in "Amos and Andy", a father wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son and another man.
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The Cider House Rules
Maine The 1940s The 1920sA story about how far we must travel to find the place where we belong. — Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?
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