95 Films & TV Shows Set In Oklahoma
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Mermaids
Massachusetts Oklahoma The 1960sMom is many things... normal isn't one of them. — Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
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Too Young to Die?
Oklahoma The 1980sThey were young, in love and wanted for murder. — An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
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Dead Bang
Colorado Oklahoma Arizona CaliforniaFor one cop this isn't just a case. It's a war. — Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
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UHF
Oklahoma The 1980sA lot of TV stations have forgotten what "quality" means, but not Channel 62. They NEVER knew what it meant. — The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
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Near Dark
Kansas OklahomaIn one hot hungry kiss, he gave her everlasting love. She gave him everlasting life. — A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
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Terror at Tenkiller
OklahomaJust when you thought it was safe to go on vacation! — Unsuspecting college students are stalked by a killer at a lake during summer vacation.
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Footloose
Oklahoma Utah The 1980sThe music is on his side. — When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
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The Outsiders
Oklahoma The 1960sThey grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong. — When two poor Greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
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Rumble Fish
OklahomaRusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down. — Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
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Silkwood
Oklahoma The 1970sOn November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She never got there. — The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
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Tex
OklahomaComing-of-age story about two teenage brothers in rural Oklahoma and their struggle to grow up on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.
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The Long Summer of George Adams
Oklahoma The 1950sA middle-age man, in small-town Middle America, lives a momentous year in the mid-20th century.
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Cattle Annie and Little Britches
Oklahoma The 1890sThey told the Doolin-Dalton Gang where to go. Then...they went with them. — In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. They find a shadow of a former gang and although disappointed, still try to help them escape from a vigorous Marshal.
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Hair
New York Oklahoma Nevada The 1960sLet the sunshine in! — "Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.
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The Turning Point
OklahomaThe generations change. But the choices remain the same. — When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
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Charge of the Model T's
Oklahoma Texas The 1910sComedy - During WWI, the Germans try to encourage certain Mexican guerrillas to make trouble on the Texas border. Masterminding the plot is a German spy who has, at his disposal, the RX4... a specially equipped weapon-bearing automobile of awesome speed. But a U.S. Army lieutenant carries the day with his own fleet of Model T racers. - John David Carson, Carol Bagdasarian, Louis Nye
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
Missouri Oklahoma Texas The 1860s...an army of one. — After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
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The Gumball Rally
New York Massachusetts Connecticut Pennsylvania Illinois North Carolina Oklahoma CaliforniaIt's a hilarious coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race with the world's most expensive cars. And it's all just for glory and a gumball machine. — A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Oklahoma The 1930sA classic in our time — Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
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A Poem Is a Naked Person
Oklahoma The 1970sLes Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period (1972-1974).
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Oklahoma Crude
Oklahoma The 1900sAn epic story of wooden derricks, iron men...and a defiant woman. — In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
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Two-Lane Blacktop
California Arizona New Mexico Oklahoma Tennessee Kentucky ArkansasYou can never go fast enough... — A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
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Little Big Man
Montana South Dakota Oklahoma The 1970s The 1850s The 1870s The 1860sEither the most neglected hero in history or a liar of insane proportion! — Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
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True Grit
Arkansas Oklahoma The 1880sThe strangest trio ever to track a killer — The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
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Hang 'em High
Oklahoma The 1880sThe hanging was the best show in town. But they made two mistakes. They hung the wrong man and they didn't finish the job! — Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
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