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.