Film Highlights

2006

Black Irish

Director: Brad Gann
Actors: Michael Angarano, Francis Capra, Peter Darrigo, Bonnie Dennison, Steve Flynn, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Guiry, Joanna Herrington, David Ian, Melissa Leo, Caryn Andrea Lindsey, Kevin O'Donnell, Carmel O'Reilly, Danielle Perry, Patrick Pitu, Michael Rispoli, Emily VanCamp, Frank T. Wells, Daniel Lee White, Bates Wilder, Scott Winters, Joseph Zamparelli
Production Company: Moody Street Pictures, Creanspeak Productions, Purple Princess Productions
Location: Charlestwon, Dorchester, East Boston, Jamaica Plain, South Boston, Milton, Waltham
The Departed

Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nickolson, Martin Sheen, Vera Farmiga, Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Anderson, Ray Winston,, Alec Baldwin
Production Company: Warner Bros. Vertigo Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group, Plan B Entertainment
Location: Flagship Wharf (Charlestown), South Boston, Waterfront

2004

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Director: Brad Silberling
Actors: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Luis Guzman, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Adams, Craig Ferguson, Jamie Harris, Cedric the Entertainer
Location: Boston Financial District

2003

Mona Lisa Smile

Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dominic West, Juliet Stevenson, Marcia Gay Harden, John Slattery, Marian Seldes, Donna Mitchell, Terence Rigby, Jennie Eisenhower, Leslie Lyles, Laura Allen
Production Company: Sony Pictures
Location: Wellesley College Campus

Mystic River

Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Kevin Chapman, Adam Nelson, Tom Guiry, Emmy Rossum, Spencer Treat Calrk, Matty Blake, Andrew Blesser, Douglass Bowen Flynn, Jonathan Togo
Production Company: Warner Bros.

Alex and Emma

Director: Rob Reiner
Actors: Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, Jordan Lund, Sophie Marceau, David Paymer
Production Company: Warner Bros.

2000

 
What's The Worst That Could Happen?

Director: Sam Weisman
Actors: Danny Devito and Martin Lawrence
Production Company: MGM
Location: Back Bay, Beacon Hill and South End Boston

Title To Murder

Director: Steven Furst
Actors: Maureen McCormick
Location: Charlestown

Legally Blonde

Director: Robert Luketic
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair
Location: Boston

Lift

Director: Khari Streeter, Demane Davis Eugene Byrd
Location: Roxbury, Downtown Boston

Private Lies (formerly Bye Bye America)

Director: Sherry Horman
Actors: John Corbett, Rosemarie Fendel, Sarah Fischer, Martina Gedeck, and David Mokriski
Production Company: Grokenberger Films
Location: Boston Exteriors

Sealed with a Kiss

Director: Ron Lagomarsino
Actors: John Stamos, Annabeth Gish, Jane Sibbett, Robert Stack, Angie Dickinson, Barry Corbin, Nell Carter
Production Company: New Line Television
Location: Cambridge, Boston

The Blue Diner

Director: Jan Egleson
Production Company: The Blue Diner Film Project, Inc
Location: Downtown Boston Exteriors

Teacakes or Canoli

Director: Francine Pellegrino, Nino Pepicellio
Production Company: Pelligrino Productions
Location: North End, Boston

Night Deposit

Director: Monika Mitchell
Actors: Christy Scott Cashman
Production Company: Saint Aire Productions
Location: Back Bay, Boston

Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A Leuchter, Jr

Director: Errol Morris
Production Company: 4th Floor Productions/Scout Productions
Location: Boston, Museum of Science, Charles River Studios

1999

Gentlemen From Boston

Director: John Stimson and Michael Connoly
Actors: Michael Landers
Location: State House, West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain

The Autumn Heart

Director: Steve Mailer
Actors: Ally Sheedy, Tyne Daly, Davidlee Willson, Julian Sands, Lisa Keller
Location: Boston Exteriors, Bowling alley in Malden; Winchester Hospital

Here On Earth

Director: Mark Piznarski
Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Chris Klein, and Josh Hartnett
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
Location: Aerial Boston, Bradley Palmer State Park

1998

Good Will Hunting

Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Production Company: Miramax Films/Buena Vista
Location: South Boston, MIT, Cambridge

Monument Ave.

Director: Ted Demme. Written by Denis Leary
Actors: Denis Leary, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Billy Crudup, Billy Zane
Production Company: Charlestown Inc./Tribeca Films
Location: East Boston, Charlestown, Malden, Chelsea

1997

A Civil Action

Director: Steve Zaillian
Actors: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan, William Macy
Production Company: Touchstone Pictures
Location: Boton Public Garden, Boston Athenium, Charles St.

Bobby Loves Mangos

Director: Stuart Acher
Actors: Frank Ridley, Paula Plum
Production Company: SIA Pictures
Location: Boston, Watertown
Description, awards, or other notes: 1999 New England Film & Video Festival Most Promising Filmmaker (Acher)

Amistad

Director: Steven Spielberg. Produced by Debbie Allen and Colin Wilson
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne
Production Company: HBO Pictures/DreamWorks SKG
Location: Massachusetts State House Senate and House of Representatives chambers

Brass Ring

Director: John Shea
Actors: Donnie Wahlberg, Anne Meara
Production Company: Three Rings, Incorporated
Location: South Boston

The Matchmaker

Director: Mark Joffe
Actors: Denis Leary, Janeane Garofalo
Production Company: Working Title Films
Location: Faneuil Hall, Boston Exteriors, Cottonwood Cafe, One Ashburton Place

The Out of Towners

Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Second Unit Filming
Location: Aerial views of car driving in Downtown Boston

Home Before Dark

Director: Directed and Written by Maureen Foley
Actors: Katherine Ross, Patricia Kalember, Stephanie Castellarin
Production Company: Hazelwood Films with Scout Productions
Location: Boston's Hyde Park
Description, awards, or other notes: 1997 Hamptons International Film Festival Award Recipient

All the Rage

Director: Roland Tec
Actors: Jean-Michael Lander, David Vincent
Production Company: Pinkplot Productions
Location: Boston's South End, Esplanade, and Back Bay

Eighteenth Angel

Director: William Bindley
Actors: Christopher McDonald, Rachael Leigh Cook, Stanley Tucci
Production Company: Rysher Entertainment
Location: Back Bay, Boston

1996

The Matchmaker

Actors: Denis Leary, Janeane Garofalo. Directed by Mark Joffe
Production Company: Working Title Films
Location: Fanueil Hall; Cottonwood Cafe; One Ashburton Place

Shakespeare's Sister

Director: Lesli Glatter
Actors: Kenneth Branagh, William Hurt, Madeline Stowe, Blythe Danner
Production Company: Interscope Communications
Location: Boston's North End and Back Bay; The Great House at the Crane Estate, Ipswich; Moore State Park, Paxton

The Spanish Prisoner

Director: David Mamet
Actors: Steve Martin, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ben Gazzara, Campbell Scott, Ricky Jay, Felicity Huffman, Ed O'Neill
Production Company: Jasmine Productions
Location: Logan Airport; North End; Rowes Wharf; South Boston

Next Stop Wonderland

Director: Brad Anderson
Production Company: Robbins Entertainment
Location: Union Park; Aquarium; Copley Plaza Hotel; East Boston and Chelsea

Home Before Dark

Director: Maureen Foley
Actors: Katherine Ross, Patricia Kalember, Stephanie Castellarin
Production Company: Hazelwood Films with Scout Productions
Location: Waltham, Newton, and Boston's Hyde Park

All the Rage

Director: Roland Tec
Production Company: Pinkplot Productions
Location: Boston's South End, Esplanade, and Back Bay

Eighteenth Angel

Production Company: Rysher Entertainment
Location: Back Bay, Boston

The Practice

Director: David E. Kelley creator and executive producer
Actors: Dylan McDermott, Kelli Williams, Camryn Manheim, Steve Harris, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Michael Badalucco
Production Company: ABC Television
Location: Suffolk County Courthouse, Cambridge Street at City Hall Plaza, and general Boston

Black & White & Red All Over

Director: Directed and written by DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy, and Khari Streeter
Actors: Thomas Braxton, Jr., Lord Harrison, MyQuan, Damian, Rob Florestal, Naomi Ramsey
Production Company: Sundance Film
Location: Boston and Cambridge
Description, awards, or other notes: In the dramatic competion at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival

1995

Mrs. Winterbourne

Director: Richard Benjamin
Actors: Ricki Lake, Shirley MacLaine, Brendan Fraser
Production Company: Columbia/Tristar
Location: Marblehead, Beverly, Charlestown, Boston-Shreve, Crumb & Low, Public Garden, Boston Common

Celtic Pride

Director: Tom DeCerchio
Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Daniel Stern, Damon Wayans
Production Company: Caravan Pictures
Location: South End, Historic Boston Garden, North End; East Boston and Waltham

The Darien Gap

Director: Brad Anderson
Production Company: Sundance Film
Location: Boston
Description, awards, or other notes: In the competition at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival

Squeeze

Director: Robert Patton-Spruill
Actors: Eddie Cutanda, Phoung Doung, Tyrone Burton
Production Company: Cathartic Filmworks
Location: Dorchester, Boston State Hospital

Never Met Picasso

Production Company: Mighty Real Productions
Location: Boston, Waltham

Original Sins

Actors: Boston and Lawrence
Production Company: Sarabande/Maple Street Productions for CBS Television

Getting Away With Murder

Director: Penny Marshall
Actors: Dan Ackroyd, Jack Lemmon, Nancy Travis
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
Location: Downtown Boston and Back Bay

1994

Just Cause

Actors: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Blair Underwood
Production Company: Warner Brothers
Location: Harvard Square, Cambridge

Getting Away With Murder

Director: Penny Marshall
Actors: Dan Akroyd, Jack Lemmon, Nancy Travis
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
Location: Boston

1993

Blown Away

Director: Stephen Hopkins
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges
Production Company: MGM
Location: Copley Square; Joy Street; the Esplanade; East Boston waterfront; St. Francis de Sales School; Charlestown; MIT; Fenway Park; Wingaersheek Beach, Gloucester

The Next Karate Kid

Actors: Pat Morita
Production Company: Columbia
Location: Crane Estate, Ipswich; Halibut Point, Rockport; Tufts University; Brookline High School

The Firm

Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Location: Copley Plaza Hotel, The Abbey, South Boston; Harvard University; Harvard Square

The River Wild

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Location: Charles River, Boston

With Honors

Actors: Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser
Production Company: Warner Brothers
Location: Widener Library, Harvard University; Harvard Square; Boston Antheneum

Little Big League

Production Company: Castle Rock
Location: Fenway Park

Malice

Director: Harold Becker
Actors: Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman
Production Company: Castlerock Entertainment
Location: Smith College, Northampton; The Abbey, South Boston; Lord Jeffrey Inn, Amherst; Cambridge.

Distant Justice

Actors: David Caradine, George Kennedy
Production Company: Westwood Pictures
Location: Boston

School Ties

Director: Robert Mandel
Actors: Brendan Fraser
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Location: Middlesex School, Concord; Concord Town Center; Acton Tennis Club; W. Groton; Lowell

Housesitter

Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn
Production Company: Imagine Entertainment
Location: Cafe Budapest, One Beacon Street, Boston; Concord Town Center; Cohasset Town Center

Primary Motive

Actors: Justine Bateman, Judd Nelson
Production Company: Ascension Films
Location: Boston, Marshfield

The Secret

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Boxleitner
Production Company: RHI Entertainment
Location: Boston

Little Big League

Director: Andrew Scheinman
Actors: Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, John Ashton
Production Company: Castle Rock
Location: Fenway Park

1991

Housesitter

Director: Frank Oz
Production Company: Imagine Entertainment
Location: Cafe Budapest, One Beacon Street

I Can�t Lose

Director: Bill Brown
Actors: James Earl Jones, Leigh Taylor Young, Heather Haas, Matt Geriak
Production Company: MRB Group
Location: North End, Old North Church/Boston

The Secret

Director: Karen Arthur
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Boxleitner
Production Company: RHI Entertainment
Location: Boston, MBTA Subway

1990

Once Around

Actors: Richard Dreyfus, Holly Hunter
Production Company: Universal
Location: Boston Public Gardens; Longfellow Bridge, Boston; Flagship Wharf, Charlestown; Mystic Valley Parkway, Arlington

Run

Production Company: Disney

1989

Glory

Director: Ed Zwick
Actors: Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Production Company: Tristar Pictures
Location: Sturbridge Village; Boston Common; South End, Boston; Appleton Farm, Ipswich

1988

Second Sight

Actors: John Larroquette, Bronson Pinchot
Production Company: Warner Brothers
Location: Boston

Field of Dreams

Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Actors: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffman, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones
Production Company: Universal
Location: Boston, Fenway Park
Description, awards, or other notes: Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score

1987

The Serpent and The Rainbow

Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae
Production Company: New World Pictures
Location: Copley Place

1986

The Witches of Eastwick

Director: George Miller
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer
Production Company: Warner Brothers
Location: Cohasset Town Center; Abbott Hall, Marblehead; Wang Center, Boston; Castle Hill, Ipswich

From the Hip

Director: Bob Clark
Actors: Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Darren McGavin
Location: Boston

1983

The Bostonians

Director: James Ivory
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, Jessica Tandy
Production Company: Merchant Ivory
Location: Beacon Hill

1982

The Verdict

Director: Directed by Sydney Lumet
Screenplay by David Mamet
Actors: Paul Newman, Jack Warden, James Mason
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox
Location: State House, South Boston

Author! Author!

Director: Directed by Arthur Hiller
Written by playwright Israel Horovitz
Actors: Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Eric Gurry, Alan King
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox
Location: Boston

Class

Director: Lewis John Carlino
Actors: Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew McCarthy, Stuart Margolin, Cliff Robertson, John Cusack
Production Company: Orion Pictures
Location: Boston

1981

Hanky Panky

Actors: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner. Directed by Sydney Poitier
Production Company: Columbia Pictures
Location: Cambridge; New England Aquarium

Mission Hill

Director: Robert Jones
Actors: Brian Burke, Alice Barrett, John Mahoney
Production Company: Still River Films
Location: Boston

Yes, Giorgio

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actors: Luciano Pavarotti, Kathryn Harrold, Eddie Albert, Paolo Borboni
Production Company: MGM
Location: Boston

Still of the Night

Director: Robert Benton
Actors: Meryl Streep, Roy Scheider, Jessica Tandy
Production Company: MGM-UA
Location: Boston

1980

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Director: John Badham
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti
Production Company: MGM
Location: Columbus Park/Boston, Faulkner Hospital/Jamaica Plain

1979

Starting Over

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Location: Boston

1978

The Brink's Job

Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino
Production Company: Dino deLaurentis
Location: Boston

The Europeans

Director: James Ivory
Actors: Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Choate
Production Company: Merchant Ivory
Location: Boston

Oliver's Story

Director: John Korty
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Swoosie Kurtz
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Location: Boston, Cambridge

1977

Coma

Director: Michael Crichton
Actors: Genevieve Bujold, Richard Widmark, Michael Douglas
Production Company: MGM
Location: Beacon Hill; Boston

1967

The Thomas Crown Affair

Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Jack Weston
Location: Boston