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Movies and Documentary Films With Kentucky Ties
Elizabethtown
RELEASE DATE: October
14, 2005, distributed by Paramount Pictures.
CREDITS: Directed and Written by
Cameron Crowe. Produced by Cameron Crowe, Tom Cruise, and Paula Wagner. Starring
Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, and Jessica
Biel.
FILMING LOCATIONS: Anadarko, Oklahoma; Crestwood,
Kentucky; El Reno, Oklahoma; Elizabethtown,
Kentucky; Eureka Springs, Arkansas; Guthrie, Oklahoma, (brief shot before
Oklahoma City Memorial scene); John Wayne Airport - Santa Ana, California; Los
Angeles, California; Louisville,
Kentucky; Memphis, Tennessee; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Oldham County,
Kentucky; Pomona, California; Portland, Oregon; Scottsbluff, Nebraska; Versailles,
Kentucky; and Winchester,
Kentucky.
DESCRIPTION: Orlando Bloom plays a shoe designer visiting his
father's hometown in Kentucky in the days following the father's death, and
Kirsten Dunst plays a flight attendant. Alec Baldwin has a small role as a CEO
of an athletic shoe company, and Susan Sarandon appears as a grieving widow. (From Wikipedia)
For further information visit the Internet Movie Database and read
the Wikipedia article "Elizabethtown
(film)" in its entirety.
NOTES: (From Wikipedia)
"Recognizable settings for scenes shot in Louisville,
Kentucky include the Brown Hotel and Cave Hill Cemetery. Although the
exterior, lobby, and corridors of the Brown Hotel are seen, a passable replica
of the Brown Hotel's Crystal Ball Room was re-created on a soundstage (doubtless
because of the fire and water effects used.) Although the title of the movie is
Elizabethtown, most of the small town scenes were actually filmed in Versailles,
Kentucky. A few scenes portraying distinctive landmarks were filmed in
Elizabethtown itself."
Fahrenheit 9/11
RELEASE DATES: June
25, 2004
CREDITS: Written and Directed by Michael Moore.
FILMING LOCATIONS
INCLUDE: The country of Iraq; the US states of Illinois; Kentucky; Michigan;
Texas; Virginia; and Washington, D.C.
DESCRIPTION: A documentary
that details Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after
September 11, and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to
push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Fire Down Below
RELEASE DATE:
September 5, 1997; Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures
CREDITS: Directed
by Felix Enriquez Alcala Written by Jeb Stuart and Phillip Morton; Starring
Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, and native Kentuckian
Harry Dean Stanton.
DESCRIPTION: (From
Wikipedia) Fire Down Below is a cult action film in which an EPA agent
investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights.
Fresh Horses
RELEASE DATE: November
18, 1988; Distributed by Columbia Pictures
CREDITS: Directed by David
Anspaugh; Produced by Richard Berg, Alan Marcil, John G. Wilson; Written by
Larry Ketron; Starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Patti
D'Arbanville.
FILMING LOCATIONS INCLUDE: Boone and Gallatin
counties in Kentucky; the University of Cincinnati; Warren County, Ohio and
Switzerland County, Indiana.
DESCRIPTION: (From Wikipedia) A Cincinnati
college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls
in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. [See also: the Internet Movie Database, for
more information.]
Goldfinger
RELEASE DATE: September
17, 1964 in the UK, December 22, 1964 in the US, July 31, 2007, released again
in the UK; Distributed by United Artists.
CREDITS: Directed by Guy Hamilton;
Produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli; Screenplay by Richard Maibaum
and Paul Dehn, based on the the novel by Ian Fleming; Starring Sean Connery as
James Bond; also starring Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman, Harold Sakata.
FILMING
LOCATIONS INCLUDE: Buckinghamshire, England; Canton Lucerne, Switzerland; the
state of Florida; Fort Knox,
Kentucky; Middlesex, England; Lexington,
Kentucky; London, England; Louisville,
Kentucky; Uri, Switzerland; Washington, D.C.
AWARDS: Norman Wanstall won
the Academy Award for Sound Editing for his work on this film.
DESCRIPTION:
(From Wikipedia)
Goldfinger intends to irradiate the U.S. gold supply stored at the United States
Bullion Depository at Fort Knox with an "atomic device" so as to render it
useless for almost 60 years, thereby greatly increasing the value of his own
considerable gold holdings. James Bond's mission is to stop him.
NOTE: There
were no cameras allowed inside Fort Knox, for security reasons. All sets for the
interior of Fort Knox were designed and built from scratch in studio in Europe.
For more information on this film, read the Wikipedia article
and visit the Internet Movie
Database.
Harlan County, USA
RELEASE DATE:
October 18, 1976
CREDITS: Directed and Produced by Barbara Kopple
AWARDS:
The film won the 1976 Academy Award for Documentary Feature and has been
selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The
events were dramatized in the 2000 TV movie Harlan County War.
DESCRIPTION:
(From Wikipedia)
Harlan County, USA is a documentary film recording the efforts of 180 coal
miners on strike in Harlan County,
Kentucky in 1973. Barbara Kopple and her crew spent years with the families
depicted in the film, documenting the dire straits they find themselves in while
striking for safer working conditions, fair labor practices, and decent wages:
following them to picket in front of the stock exchange in New York, filming
interviews with people affected by black lung disease, and even catching an
attempted murder on tape. For more information see the Wikipedia article
and visit the Internet Movie
Database.
Home in Indiana
RELEASE DATE: June
15, 1944; Distributed by 20th Century Fox
CREDITS: Directed by Henry
Hathaway; Produced by Andre Daven; Written by Winston Miller; Starring Walter
Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood, and Ward Bond.
FILMING LOCATIONS INCLUDE: Horse
farms around Lexington,
Kentucky.
DESCRIPTION: (From Wikipedia) A lad with a
penchant for trouble is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Indiana. Though
he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his
affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also
finds romance with tomboyish Char who shares his love for horses.
NOTE: This
film was remade in 1957 as April Love. [See above.] For more information, visit
the Internet Movie
Database.
In Country
RELEASE DATE: September
29, 1989; Distributed by Warner Brothers.
CREDITS: Directed by Norman
Jewison; Produced by Norman Jewison and Richard A. Roth; Written by Frank
Pierson and Cynthia Cidre, based on the novel by Kentuckian Bobbie Ann Mason;
Starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd.
AWARDS: Bruce Willis received a Golden
Globe nomination for best supporting actor for his role in this film.
FILMING
LOCATIONS INCLUDE: Lexington,
Kentucky; Mayfield,
Kentucky; Paducah,
Kentucky; and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,
D.C.
DESCRIPTION: (From Wikipedia) Recent high school
graduate Samantha Hughes, 17, lives in fictional Hopewell, Kentucky with her
uncle Emmett Smith, a quiet laid-back Vietnam War veteran who smokes MJ about 14
times a day, as in the novel. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Samantha's father, Dwayne, was killed in Vietnam at 21 after marrying and
impregnating Samantha's mother, Irene. Samantha finds some old photographs,
medals and letters of her father, and becomes obsessed with finding out more
about him. [MORE]
Keep Your Distance
RELEASE DATE:
2005; Distributed by Blue & Grey Film Ventures
CREDITS: Written and
Directed by Stu Pollard; Cast includes Gil Bellows, Jennifer Westfeldt,
Christian Kane, Kim Raver, Jamie Harrold, Elizabeth Pena, Stacy Keach, Gary
Anthony Williams, Cynthia Martells, Dennis Burkley, Booke L. Berry, Rick
Overton, and Jenny McShane.
FILMING LOCATIONS: Includes Louisville and Oldham County,
Kentucky.
DESCRIPTION: A thriller set in Louisville,
Kentucky.
Lost in Yonkers
RELEASE DATES: May
14, 1993; Distributed by Columbia Pictures
CREDITS: Directed by Martha
Coolidge; written by Neil Simon; Cast includes Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl,
Irene Worth, Brad Stoll, Mike Damus, David Strathairn, Robert Miranda, Jack
Laufer, Susan Merson, Illya Haase, Calvin Stillwell, Dick Hagerman, Jesse
Vincent, Howard Newstate, and Peter Gannon.
FILMING LOCATIONS INCLUDE: Augusta,
Kentucky; Boone County,
Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; Ludlow,
Kentucky; Sony Pictures Studios -- Culver City, California; and
Wilmington, Ohio.
DESCRIPTION: A feature film adapted from Neil Simon's
award-winning play concerning two brothers growing up during World War II. Read
the Wikipedia article
for more information on this film and the original play.
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