Film
- 1986: The film Something Wild is released; parts of the motion picture were filmed in Tallahassee and Quincy.
- 1986:The Deliberate Stranger is televised in May of that year. The film depicts the life of serial killer Ted Bundy, who terrorized the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee.
- 1991: Fried Green Tomatoes is released in theaters. In the film, the fictional town of Whistle Stop, Alabama is served by the Tallahassee & Albany Railroad running through it. This railroad never existed, a nod to Tallahassee.
- 1993: True Romance is released in theaters. Written by Quentin Tarantino, Tallahassee is mentioned as the home of Alabama Whitman played by Patricia Arquette.
- 1998: The Players Club film, Tallahassee is mentioned as the home of the character Ebony Monica Calhoun
- 1999: The Green Mile is released in theaters. Written by Stephen King and produced by Frank Darabont. The character Eduard Delacroix, a Cajun prisoner played by Michael Jeter, who is about to be executed is told that Mr. Jingles, his pet mouse, will live in Mouseville.
- Dialogue: Brutus "Brutal" Howell played by David Morse says, "How about Mouseville?" Eduard Delacroix played by Michael Jeter says, "Mouseville?" Brutal replies, "Tourist attraction down in Florida. Tallahassee, I think. Is that right, Paul? Tallahassee?" Paul Edgecomb played by Tom Hanks says, "Yeah, that's right. Tallahassee. Just down the road apiece from the dog university." (transcribed from DVD)
- 2002: The Victor Nuñez film Coastlines features scenes shot in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.
- 2003: The movie Manfast was fully filmed in Tallahassee, Florida. The movie was fully based around the city, and showed much of downtown. The movie box cover has the Florida Capitol Building on it as well.
- 2006: Hacking Democracy, a documentary, is released on DVD after premiering on HBO. Tallahassee became the site of the Hursti Hack proving Diebold voting machines can be hacked and altered to steal an election. Tallahassee comprises a large amount of the running time.
- 2008: Recount, an HBO made-for-TV movie, was filmed for five days in Tallahassee during November 2007, with two days of filming inside and directly in front of the Florida Supreme Court building in the Capitol Complex. It chronicles the Florida vote recounts in the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, and the December Supreme Court ruling that gave Bush the White House. Starring Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Ed Begley, Jr., Denis Leary, and John Hurt, the movie had its broadcast premiere on HBO on May 25, 2008.
- 2009: The music video for "Over It" by Dinosaur Jr. was partially shot in Tallahassee, and features shots of the band skateboarding at FAMU and the local venue The Moon.
- 2009: Woody Harrelson starred in the movie Zombieland. The characters names in the movie are based on which city the characters are attempting to reach in the post-apocalypse United States, and Harrelson's character is named Tallahassee.
- 2009: T-Pain had a music video filmed for Take your shirt off, which was filmed in Tallahassee.
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)
“Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or despatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“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)