Famous Film Locations in Your Area

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After a quick search online actually looking for "The best places to film a sunrise/sunset on Long Island New York" I found out that there has been quite a few famous and semi famous film locations on Long Island, New York.

Here are a list of some of the key ones:

Film
Animal Crackers, the Marx Brothers's second hit movie, was set in a Long Island mansion.
Sabrina, with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, had scenes filmed in Glen Cove and Nassau County.
The 1995 movie Batman Forever, starring Val Kilmer, Nicole Kidman, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, and Drew Barrymore was filmed in part at Webb Institute, in Glen Cove.
The 2001 independent film L.I.E. (Long Island Expressway), starring Paul Dano and Brian Cox, dealt with an adolescent boy struggling in his life.
The 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet takes place on Long Island, specifically in Rockville Centre and Montauk.
The 2004 movie New York Minute, starring Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, has characters who attend Syosset High School.
The 1959 movie North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant, has scenes filmed in Glen Cove, Nassau County.
In the 2008 movie, What Happens in Vegas, Joy (played by Cameron Diaz) retreats to Fire Island.
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.
In Final Destination, the movies take place on Long Island. In Final Destination 2, a Mapquest image is shown of the area around Stony Brook University Hospital even though the hospital is made out to be a psychiatric hospital.
In the famous scene from the 1972 classic 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
Although supposed to be set in the fictional town of Greenleaf, Indiana, the 1998 comedy In & Out starring Kevin Kline was filmed in Northport
The post office scene in the 2002 comedy Men in Black II was shot outside the Fire Island lighthouse
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.)
The film The Amityville Horror takes place in the town of Amityville.


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