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Films Set, or Filmed In, The Catskills

• UPDATED LIST of FILMS set in the Hudson Valley / Catskills Region: (kept up to date by the Hudson Valley Film Commission):
• The Tears of Julian Po (1997) Christian Slater - filmed in Fleischmanns
• 99 Geiger Road 2007 - Documentary about a bungalow colony of Holocaust survivors
• The Cake Eaters (2007)
• Casper Meets Wendy (1995) Wendy and her aunts run into Casper and his uncles at a resort in the Catskills.
• The Catskill Chainsaw Redemption (2004) A horror movie.
• The hit 1987 film Dirty Dancing was set in a Catskills resort in the summer of 1963 (though filmed at Mountain Lake in Virginia and at Lake Lure in North Carolina.)
• Four Seasons Documentary (2006 - in production) Follows the lives of Holocaust survivors in a Borscht Belt colony
• The Gig (1985) Director: Frank D. Gilroy, character study, amateur musicians get a gig.
• Goyband (2008) Dirty Dancing meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a touch of Fiddler on the Roof.
• Having Wonderful Time (1938) Red Skelton's first movie, set in a Catskills hotel.
• Heavy (1995) An independent film starring Liv Tyler, Debbie Harry, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, and Joe Grifasi was filmed partially in the southern Catskills in Barryville and Highland Lake.
• Kaaterskill Falls (2001) Award-winning independent film about a young urban couple befriending a local hitchhiker. Mountain country version of Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water. (Actually filmed in the Catskills.)
• Manny & Lo (1996)
• Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) Critically acclaimed film about a young woman who escapes from a cult in the Catskills.
• My Side of the Mountain A young boy tests his survival skills by living about 2 years in the Catskill Mountains.
• Rip Van Winkle (1921) Silent film version of the classic story
• Stagedoor (2006) Documentary on life at a teen camp
• Sweet Lorraine (1987) story of an aging Catskill resort in its last days, filmed at the former Heiden Hotel in South Fallsburg.
• Taking Woodstock (2009) -- The story of how Elliot Tiber helped bring the Woodstock Festival to Bethel, New York.
• Magic, the 1978 film starring Anthony Hopkins is set in the Catskills.
• Tootsie (1982) - Features scenes in the "Hurley Mountain Inn" located in Ulster County.
• Parts of the movie Transamerica (2005) starring Felicity Huffman were filmed in Callicoon though in the movie it's referred to as Callicoon, Kentucky.
• A Walk on the Moon (1999) Set in Sullivan County, but filmed in Quebec, Canada.
• Part of the movie War of the Worlds was filmed in Athens at the foot of the Catskills (the burning train and ferry scene)
• WaterFall in the Catskills (1897, the Edison Studio)
• Wendigo (2001) Filmed in West Shokan and Phoenicia area. Starred Maureen Stapleton.
• Woodstock, a 1970 documentary about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, was filmed at the festival in Bethel.
• You Can Count on Me (2000) Award-winning independent film set in the village of Scottsville, in western New York near Rochester, but filmed in the Catskills, in and around Margaretville and Phoenicia.