List of References To Long Island Places in Popular Culture - Film

Film

  • Animal Crackers was set in a mansion on Long Island.
  • Sabrina had scenes filmed in Glen Cove and Nassau County.
  • The 1959 movie North by Northwest has scenes filmed in Glen Cove.
  • In the famous scene from the 1972 film The Godfather where the severed head of a horse is discovered in the bed of Jack Woltz was filmed in Port Washington. Also the very memorable scene where Sonny Corleone is gunned down at a toll booth was shot on what is now Nassau Community College.
  • The documentary Grey Gardens took place in East Hampton.
  • In the 1977 movie, Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character remarks to Diane Keaton's character on seeing a pair of gay men walking hand-in-hand: "Oh look, they're on vacation from Fire Island.", a reference to the gay enclaves of Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines.
  • The film series The Amityville Horror takes place in the town of Amityville, in the 2005 remake the Lutz family lived in Deer Park before moving to Amityville.
  • Director Hal Hartley made several films filmed on location in his home town of Lindenhurst including The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990) and Simple Men (1992).
  • The 1995 movie Batman Forever was filmed in part at Webb Institute, in Glen Cove.
  • The 1998 film In & Out was filmed in Northport.
  • The 1993 film Amongst Friends written and directed by Rob Weiss was filmed entirely on the South Shore of Long Island.
  • The 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon opens with a scene of Jim Carrey who plays Andy narrating his story to the audience which he says begins "In Great Neck, Long Island..." (where Kaufman grew up.)
  • In Big Daddy Sonny Koufax (played by Adam Sandler) said "I went to Jones Beach got drunk and went to sleep."
  • In Men in Black II the post office scene was shot outside the Fire Island lighthouse. In Men in Black 3 the Cape Canaveral scene was shot at Jones Beach State Park.
  • In Final Destination, the movie take place on Long Island. In Final Destination 2, a MapQuest image is shown of the area around Stony Brook University Hospital.
  • The 2001 independent film L.I.E. (Long Island Expressway), took place on Long Island.
  • In the 2002 film Mr. Deeds Babe Bennett (played by Winona Ryder) says shes from Syosset, New York.
  • The 2004 film White Chicks takes place in The Hamptons.
  • The 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind takes place on Long Island, specifically in Rockville Centre and Montauk.
  • In the 2004 film New York Minute has characters who attend Syosset High School.
  • In the 2006 film Hatchet one of the characters said they went to Hofstra University.
  • In the 2008 film What Happens in Vegas, Joy (played by Cameron Diaz) retreats to Fire Island.
  • The Bounty Hunter had scenes shot on the Seaford–Oyster Bay Expressway.
  • The 2011 film Something Borrowed had scenes shot in Centerport and The Hamptons.

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Famous quotes containing the word film:

    “The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
    —Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)

    “All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
    —François Truffaut (1932–1984)

    “Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film.... You have to ask yourself if there’s anything about us more important than the fact that we’re constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.”
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)