Best New York-based Movie (cinema, filming, scenes, crime)
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This is one of those topics of which is 6-1... ½ dozen another. So here I post the question, What is the best movie made in or has a New York Story line?
Okay, it's going to sound funny, but "Home Alone 2". No, the film wasn't a cinematic masterpiece. It was your standard entertaining popcorn fluff. However, I felt that film, showing New York at Christmastime sold New York remarkably well. The Plaza, Central Park, Lincoln Center, the view from the Brooklyn Bridge, Rockefeller Center, beautiful brownstones on the Upper East Side, etc. It was also at a time period when New York was having a bit of an image problem, in the midst of the crack epidemic with out of control crime. For me though, once I saw that movie, I just couldn't get New York out of my head and had to come.
The recent Across the Universe had some interesting New York scenes, in the city and more rural spots.
I didn't even think I was going to like that movie all that much, but I did, and it definitely gave off a nice wow-I-am-young-and-single-in-1960s-NYC vibe.
Moonstruck-set in Brooklyn-typical NY Italian family-could watch it over and over.
I thought about using that movie in the poll too. my favorite line of Cher's: "Snap out of it!"
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