Watching it, it had a very Minnesota feel to it.
Checked the IMDB & it was filmed there, but is that where it's set? I don't recall anyone saying it and I can't seem to find it on here. I thought someone mentioned Timothy Hutton taking five hours to drive home.
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It was set in a fictional Massachusetts town, but I've heard repeatedly from Minnesotans who've seen it who instantly recognized the setting as somewhere near where they lived. I've never spent winters in New England, but apparently it doesn't get that kind of snow on a seasonal basis.
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I assumed it was Boston, or at least somewhere in Massachusetts as soon as I saw the scene in the bar where they all break out into singing "Sweet Caroline"....I can't imagine that happening anywhere else except that area, as it's a Boston Red Sox "thing" (they play it every game during the 8th inning) even though it has nothing whatsoever do with baseball, or Boston, or Massachusetts
http://boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/05/29/another_m ystery_of_the_diamond_explained_at_last/
I've never spent winters in New England, but apparently it doesn't get that kind of snow on a seasonal basis.
Did you pay attention at all? It's called "Knights Ridge." They mention it several times.
They show a few signs. They say the name. They drive it in in the bar-fight scene.
Also there's like 13 conversations on this board about that very same thing.
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Wow, a whole two times and you claimed all along it was SEVERAL.
But still, go fnck yourself, because I'm not wrong, I'm always correct.
At the bus station when the guy gets in town there is a Boston Globe newspaper box sitting on the sidewalk. Also Boston Celtic poster on the guy's wall and he wears a Celtics jacket.
shareThe director said he wanted it to be a town everyone can relate to. I'm from the midwest and it's exactly that.
shareClearly it is Knights Ridge (or Knightsridge or something of the sort). They do not, however, actually confirm it is Massachusetts. We know, based on dialog, that it is 5 or 6 hours by car from New York City (Tracey says that is how long it will take to drive back to NYC). If you draw a circle around NYC to places you can get to in 5 to 6 hours on a Sunday with limited traffic. You get a circle very roughly bounded by Portsmouth, NH, Syracuse, NY, Altoona, PA and Fredricksburg, VA. The fact that these guys make their living in the winter plowing snow would seem to make it very doubtful that it is anything south of the Mason-Dixon line. The fact that they were all talking about the "big storm" would seem to imply that, while it snows regularly there, they had a storm that was bigger than usual in the recent past (though there doesn't seem to be an outrageous amount of snow around so we are probably talking about a 12" storm). I think that would preclude much of the Western PA mountains who can get large amounts in Lake Effect snow and tend shrug off anything but truly massive storm events. That leaves New England and perhaps far eastern upstate NY. This is further confirmed by the fact that Tommy's nickname was "Birdman" (as it was for every mid-to-late 80s high school phenom in New England and eastern upstate NY). However, I struggle with saying it is Western Mass because you can get there from NYC in 4 or so hours most days. I am thinking that New Hampshire or Vermont is a more likely candidate. They seem to be in hilly country but not the mountains so they are not so far north to be into the Green or White Mountains. Based on all of this, I am thinking some podunk town in New Hampshire lake country (they were avid ice fisherman after all) or perhaps inland of Portsmouth. That's my story and I am sticking to it.
shareSeems to me you (and a few others) are trying to attach too much accuracy to a fictional script. "5 or 6 hours from New York" might include a 1 1/2 hour stop at her cousin's house to visit, for all we know. From the visual evidence somewhere in Massachusetts seems most appropriate.
But we know most of it was actually filmed in the Minneapolis-St Paul and surrounding areas. So does it really make a difference??
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