This weekend the KOARC and I were discussing movies that have the names of states in the title — like “Blue Hawaii.” This started me wondering — does every state in the U.S. have a movie with its name in the title? Some, like New York, have multiple movies, of course, but is there a movie with, for example, Rhode Island in the title?
Yeah, I wonder about stuff like this.
So, just for fun, if you can think of a movie that has a state name in the title, please leave it in the comments to this blog entry. To reward you for your diligence, on Thursday afternoon I’ll draw five names at random and those five people will win the WendyKnits pattern of their choice. Oh, and the first person who can name a movie with “Rhode Island” in the title will win 5 patterns. 
Leave your comment by 4pm Eastern time this Thursday, August 20, to be entered in the drawing.
Progress!
I had as nice chunk of knitting time yesterday so made some good progress on the Sandvik shawl.
I’ve got 33 more rows to do before I work the bottom border. I weighed my ball of yarn after taking this photo. The original weight was 230 grams, and the ball now weighs 127 grams, so I’ve used less than half of it. The yardage was 1300 yards, so I’m guessing I’ve used 600 or so yards so far.
Progress will slow down during the week because I’m working on a stealth project for my commuter knitting. But I’m hoping to have this done by the end of next weekend.
Lucy Sez:
“Put down the knitting and look at me!”
“Getting out of Rhode Island” (2003)
(No, I’d never heard of it but IMDb is handy!
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Montana Sky…those Hannah Montana movies don’t count! (That is my Montana pride talking!)
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Oklahoma!
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Montana (1950 with Errol Flynn)
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Virginia’s Run and then there’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – but they aren’t references to the state’s name…and I agree with Michelle about IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307639/
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There doesn’t seem to be a movie with “South Dakota” in the name. There is “Watch out for North Dakota” and the generic “The Man from Dakota”.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre…not that I’ve seen it, I don’t like horror, but it’s there.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Hotel New Hampshire
Getting out of Rhode Island is the only one I’ve heard of for RI, which is my birth state!
“The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”
“the Kentucky Fried Movie”
“Hotel New Hampshire”
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A Haunting in Connecticut – 2009
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California Suite
Your shawl is looking great, btw.
I’m not sure there is one with North Carolina in it.
I’ll play! I’m sort of a movie freak…
“My Own Private Idaho”
“Feeling Minnesota”
“Kalifornia”
“The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”
“The Haunting in Connecticut”
“Georgia Rule”
“Raising Arizona”
“Mississippi Burning”
“Sweet Home Alabama”
Hmmm, lived in RI for 7 years and do not remember any other than the one mentioned. We did have “Outside Providence” though as a RI city named movie.
blue hawaii
hotel new hampshire
mr smith goes to washington
christmas in connecticut
moonlight in vermont
creepy canada
outside providence ( titles from places i have lived)
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My Own Private Idaho
The Heart of Maryland (1915) I’ve never seen it, but I googled it.
And then there is this list: http://orion.math.iastate.edu/burkardt/movieplay/movie_states.html
but it says there isn’t one for Rhode Island!
“My Own Private Idaho”
La Florida (1993)
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North to Alaska?
The Michigan Kid (1947)
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
Vermont Is for Lovers (1992)
George Washington (1984)
Oregon Trail (1945)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
Bleeding Iowa (1999)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Ghosts of Mississippi
I’d like your life … for a day
Just for somethin’ TOTALLY different *grin*. Love the kitty pics – pray tell – how do you NOT get red eye?
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Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). It has nothing to do with the state of Maine, but it is in the title.
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“New Mexico” (1951) staring Raymond Buhr and other notables.
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Arizona Drean (1993)
Arkansas Traveler (1928)
The Man from Utah
Wisconsin Death Trip
I forgot, Destiny of Empires: Remember the Maine – The Roots of the Spanish-American War (1998).
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Raising Arizona.
Wisconsin Death Trip
The Prince of Pennsylvania
Just a few: Raising Arizona
Sweet Home Alabama
North to Alaska
Christmas In Connecticut
The State of Maine
Gangs of New York
(I tried not to look at the previous comments!)
Pennsylvania Miners’ Story
Thunder Over Arizona
Wisconsin Death Trip
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Well, Michelle beat me to “Getting Out of Rhode Island,” but I found an interesting North Carolina title: “Beer Y’all: A Rock & Roll Road Trip Across North Carolina.”
haha. Imdb.com is a great resource for stuff like this!
The Missouri Breaks
Wisconsin Death Trip
‘Kansas City Confidential’ – classic noir with Lee Van Cleef
Hotel NH & North to Alaska!
“Oklahoma” where the rain comes sweeping down the plain…….my home state.
Except in the NE part (which is where I’m really from) where it is hilly, covered with green trees and gorgeous!!
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Kalifornia? (NB – this does not constitute a recommendation, I repeat, I am not recommending you watch this movie!)
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Christmas in Connecticut is one of my favorites! Also, according to IMDB, there is a movie from 1940 called “Maryland”, which I thought would be a tough on.
Mar 28, 2008 news release
‘South Dakota’ Movie Shot In Iowa
A Los Angeles filmmaker plans to make a movie called South Dakota in Iowa…
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid.
I need to watch Wisconsin Death Trip — what is it about my adopted state that seems to spawn serial killers?
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The first movie that came to mind was “Sweet Home Alabama,” But I think that was mentioned before.
But, I did do a search for my home state and found “The Michigan Kid.” It appears to be a western from 1947. I’ll have to watch it!
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Getting Out of Rhode Island
Sweet Home Alabama
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Indiana Jones! Can’t forget that one! Or Oklahoma! Or a scary one like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I’ve never seen that one.
wtf! =-.
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Jersey Girl!
Pretty shawl! I know of “Happy, Texas” & “Paris, Texas”.
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How ’bout one for every state I have lived in?
My home state of CT: Christmas in Connecticut
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) there are surprisingly few ‘New York’ moves – apparently Manhattan is where it is ‘at’.
Picturesque Massachusetts (1942)
The Man from New Mexico (1932)
UP, MIchigan! (2001)
Hmm. Wonder where I will end up next!
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Truth or Consequences New Mexico
Raising Arizona
courtesy of the spouse comes these gems:
four for texas (w/dean martin)
1600 pennsylvania avenue (w/denzel washington)
nevada city (w/roy rogers)
louisiana purchase (w/bob hope)
florida special (w/jack oakie)
wyoming outlaw (w/john wayne)
new mexico (w/lew ayres)
maryland (w/walter brennan)
virginia (w/fred macmurray)
tennessee champ (w/shelley winters)
abe lincoln in illinois (w/raymond massey)
kansas raiders (w/audie murphy)
the man from colorado (w/glenn ford)
missouri breaks (w/marlon brando)
in other news, lucy looks soooo cute…my meredith does that all the time when she wants me to rub her furry tummy!
Frances’ comment above made me look up North Carolina, but all I came up with was “Bastard out of Carolina” which is SC.
For other places I’ve lived, I would include “Kentucky Fried Movie” (1977 satire), “New Jersey Drive” for NJ (but really, Garden State is the best representation of NJ, I think. There’s also “Jersey Girls”) and apparently there are oodles of movies named “Texas,” but I would go for the movie version of “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” (1982) for variety’s sake.
Mississippi Masala – one of my favorites!
The Howards of Virginia
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Oklahoma!
Georgia Rules (Jane Fonda)
Texasville
Old Louisiana
Minnesota Fats
Arizona Trail
The Virginian
Washington Square
(I love old movies on the Turner Classic Movie Channel)
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Does “Fargo” count?
Eh?
Florida Evans. Even though it’s not a state, Fargo, which is a city in North Dakota, NOT Minnesota, which is where I’m from.
“Federal Hill” is about Rhode Island and the story is very loosely based on actual event that happened here years ago.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, of course. We were in Kingsland, TX last week and one of the buildings on the property (lots of cabins and stuff – we stayed in a converted caboose) is where they filmed the movie. It looks kind of creepy even as a restaurant.
I forgot to mention there was an indy film about Rocky Point amusement park in Warwick RI. “You Must Be This Tall: The Rocky Point Movie”
For some reason I was thinking you meant a song title!! So this is what I found first!
“poor little Rhode Island”
http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/d06/6198.htm
OOPS! So then I found a movie simply called “maryland” as that is where I am from!
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/101802/Maryland/overview
I know it was already mentioned but “Feeling Minnesota” means a lot to me. The old 1940s “cabins” that they stay at for much of the movie was filmed about 1/2 mile from my house.
Right after the movie was filmed – they were torn down and an office building was built on the site.
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Wisconsin Death Trip 1999
Bootleg Wisconsin (because of where I live now)
Oregon (high school)
Arizona Dream (vacation in 200 days)
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Was going to say the Texas Chainsaw Massacre but saw someone else said it so there is also one called The Heart of Texas.
I have one the Oregon Trail, and Getting out of Rhode Island.
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Going for Honorable Mention on the Rhode Island movie search:
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Getting Out of Rhode Island (2003)
The Demon Murder Case (1983) (TV) aka “The Rhode Island Murders”
First Rhode Island Volunteers (1898)
Rhode Island Blue (2001)
Shooting the Chutes at Providence, Rhode Island (1901)
great question!
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Well, there’s The Hotel New Hampshire, but Rhode Island, hmmmm.
Oh my goodness there are quite a few if a person actually takes the time to think but then that would take away from knitting. So lets say Mississippi Burning and
Wanda Nevada which is an old Western Movie with Peter Fonda.
Jersey Girl has part of NJ; there was also the movie Garden State, which is the state name for NJ.
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Raising Arizona.
Looks like there might not be a South Carolina film. Hmmm.
But my birth state has the simply titled “Iowa”. Gotta love those straight forward titles.
According to IMDB there is a movie called “Iowa” about meth. How flattering…
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Okay- that’s really funny that someone else posted that while I was typing it!
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I’ve lived in RI all my life but don’t know of any movies with the state name in the title. A lot of movies and TV shows have been filmed or set in RI (Dan in Real Life, Providence, Family Guy). There is a cute song called “(Little old) Rhode Island is Famous for You.”
“The Missouri Breaks” and “The Girl from Missouri.” And a personal favorite, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”
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Moonlight in Vermont
Of course there is Oklahoma! which has been mentioned but there are other Oklahoma titles like:
The Oklahoma Kid
Baja Oklahoma
In Old Oklahoma
A few for Arkansas:
Arkansas Judge
I’m From Arkansas
Well, the one I didn’t look up on IMDB was The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio – that was a good movie!
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I don’t Ohio has been mentioned, there was “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio” and “The Oh in Ohio”
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Escape from New York
After the Fall of New York
New York Minute
I suppose they’re about the city, but since the state has the same name…
“Mystery, Alaska”
North to Alaska
Feeling Minnesota (my home state)
King of California (my adopted state)
California Split
In old California
The Arkansas Traveler
The Man from Utah
Kansas Pacific
Hills of Wyoming
Christmas in Connecticut — a sweet holiday movie.
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Oklahoma!
Louisiana Purchase
Iowa (2005)
Sweet Home Alabama
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Twin Falls, Idaho
“Tennessee” (2008)- has Mariah Carey in it!
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Rhode Island Blue (2001
Someone beat me to “Mystery, Alaska” but no one has mentioned “Alaska”. Both are terrible representations of what Alaska is actually like. Also “Half Baked Alaska”. I haven’t seen it, but it has gone up 11% in popularity on IMDB this week. Might have to put it on my netflix.
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I could think of two:
Mississippi Burning
My Own Private Idaho
Most posted movies I have never even heard of!
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But we have no Dakotas!
Mystery, Alaska
Also, Massachusetts is oddly missing from movie titles. From IMDB I found very little, but may favorite has to be “Legal at Last! (At Least in Massachusetts).” Though it looks like it’s less than a half hour, so I’m not sure that really counts as a movie.
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Colorado – starring Roy Rogers
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Erm, I can’t think of any with the fulll name of my state, but there’s “Jersey Girl” and “Garden State” and everyone knows what’s meant.
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Oregon (2000)
Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail
What a difference huh?
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‘Mystery, Alaska’ – Which, incidentally, I saw on a very bad blind date while in college. I had no idea that I would move to Alaska less than two years after that!
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‘Getting out of Rhode Island’ – I don’t have the patience to look through all your comments to see if I’m the first…AM I?!
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I have read through all the comments, and I don’t know of a Rhode Island movie, but “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” comes immediately to mind. The library I worked in right after college (in Illinois, of course) had an autographed copy of the script.
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Mississippi Burning, Feeling Minnesota, The Arkansas Traveler
And since there’s no North Carolina ones, I’ll vote for Cape Fear (the original w/Robert Mitchum & Gregory Peck).