DeLand, Florida - in The Movies

In The Movies

DeLand has been the filming location for a number of television and movie projects, including the 1999 Adam Sandler comedy The Waterboy. Scenes showing the fictional South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs home football games were shot at Spec Martin Stadium. Classroom and exterior scenes were filmed at Stetson University. Scenes involving Sandler's character's home were actually filmed in neighboring DeBary. Ghost Story, starring Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Craig Wasson, was filmed in part at Stetson University and the Holiday House.

The HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon filmed several scenes on the campus of Stetson University. The 1999 independent film The First of May, starring Mickey Rooney and Joe DiMaggio, was shot on various locations throughout DeLand. Days of Thunder, starring Tom Cruise, was also partially filmed in DeLand.

Michael E. Arth is the town's most notable filmmaker and has made three feature documentaries in DeLand between 2007 and 2012:

New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism (2008) was filmed almost entirely in DeLand in 2006 and 2007.

Gov'nor: A Man on a Bicycle, With no Money, Takes on the Fat Cats, Dirty Politics (and his Wife) to run for Governor of Florida, a 2012 documentary feature film by Michael E. Arth and Christopher Ramsey was filmed almost entirely in Florida, much of it in DeLand.

Out of the Woods: Life and Death in Dirty Dave's Homeless Camp is a documentary feature by Michael E. Arth filmed in DeLand from 2008 to 2012.