Boston in fiction

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This articles lists various works of fiction that take place in Boston, Massachusetts:

Videogames

Literature

Television

A number of popular television series are set in Boston, four of which were notably created by David E. Kelley, who grew up in suburban Boston.

Film

A number of films have been set in Boston or Greater Boston, many due to the presence of Harvard University in neighboring Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • 21, a fictionalized account of the very-unofficial MIT Blackjack Team
  • Altered States, Ken Russell film based on Paddy Chayefsky's novel
  • Between the Lines
  • Blown Away depicts the Boston Bomb Squad dealing with a mad bomber.
  • Blue Hill Avenue, about four childhood friends from Dorchester who grow up to become drug dealers
  • The Boondock Saints, about two Irish immigrant brothers in Boston who become vigilantes
  • The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, the sequel to The Boondock Saints in which the brothers are forced to return to Boston
  • The Bostonians
  • The Boston Strangler, depicting a famous serial killer, played by Tony Curtis
  • The Brink's Job, about the famous robbery of the Brinks security transport in the North End
  • Celtic Pride, about two die hard Boston Celtics fans
  • Charly, based on Flowers for Algernon, about a mentally challenged man who receives treatment for his disability
  • A Civil Action, about several families who attempt to sue a company for dumping toxic waste that gave their children leukemia. Filmed all over Boston, ironically not in Woburn, where it takes place, but in Palmer, Massachusetts.
  • Coma is set at the fictional Boston Memorial Hospital.
  • The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner
  • The Core, an early scene when people with pacemakers mysteriously drop dead during Green World Day. It is later known that the core stopped rotating.
  • The Departed, Martin Scorsese's 2006 hit film, takes place in Boston, with prominent use of Boston landmarks and culture. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture 2006.
  • Dirty Tricks, 1981 film starring Elliott Gould as a Harvard professor involved in an historical crime caper
  • Edge of Darkness, the 2010 crime thriller starring Mel Gibson
  • The 2005 remake of Fever Pitch, is about a man's obsession with the Boston Red Sox.
  • Field of Dreams; Ray Kinsella's journey takes him through Boston to fetch Terence Mann and attend a game at Fenway Park.
  • The Forbidden Kingdom, a martial arts comedy-drama about a Boston boy who enters a Chinese fantasy world, with Jet Li and Jackie Chan
  • The Firm, a film in which the opening takes place at Harvard
  • The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a drama about an aging mob gun runner from Quincy who has to choose whether or not to inform on his Irish Mob friends to avoid jail time
  • Fuzz, Detectives from Boston's 87th Precinct's investigating a murder-extortion racket run by a mysterious deaf man
  • Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck, takes place and was filmed in Boston.
  • Good Will Hunting takes place in Boston: the characters live in South Boston, and some other action is set at Harvard and M.I.T.
  • The Handmaid's Tale is set in the Harvard Square area.
  • Harvard Man, a basketball player strikes a deal with the mob to fix a basketball game.
  • Heaven's Gate, exterior Harvard scenes filmed at Oxford University
  • Home Before Dark (1958), set in Boston and Cape Cod, is adapted from the novel by Eileen Bassing; original negative is lost.
  • Housesitter
  • Ice Princess, takes place in Worcester, MA around the Greater Boston area, about a physics geek who dreams of becoming a professional ice skater and gets an offer to go to Harvard but turns down that offer.
  • Johnny Tremain, 1957 Disney film based on the same named novel
  • Knight and Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz
  • Knowing
  • The Last Detail, about two United States Navy policemen who decide to take out a young sailor for one last night on the town (through Boston's Combat Zone) before he goes to jail
  • The Last Hurrah
  • Legally Blonde, about a UCLA Valley Girl that attempts to get her boyfriend back by entering Harvard Law School
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, takes place in Boston, as seen on the envelope at the end of the movie. Specifically, "28 Prospero Place, Boston, Massachusetts, USA."
  • Little Children, set in a fictional suburb of Boston
  • Love Story
  • The Matchmaker
  • Malcolm X, Malcolm's Boston years are chronicled in this film, including his prison years, which led to his eventual conversion to Islam.
  • Mona Lisa Smile, featuring Julia Roberts as a nonconformist Wellesley College professor
  • Moneyball, featuring Brad Pitt, has a scene at Fenway Park in Boston.
  • Monument Ave., a film about low level Charlestown gangsters dealing with the repercussions that arise due to the code of silence
  • My Best Friend's Girl
  • Mystery Street
  • Mystic River, an Oscar-winning drama about three childhood friends who later reunite after the murder of one of their daughters. Set in a fictional area of Boston called "Buckingham Flats". Filmed in East Boston and South Boston.
  • The Next Karate Kid has primary scenes set in the Boston area and was filmed partly in Brookline, MA.
  • Next Stop Wonderland takes place in Boston and the MBTA station Wonderland takes special significance.
  • Night School
  • Now, Voyager
  • Once Around
  • The Paper Chase a film about a student struggling through Harvard Law School, based on the 1970 novel. (John Houseman won an Oscar for his role as Prof. Kingsfield).
  • The Proposal
  • Prozac Nation, about a young woman who struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard
  • Shutter Island, a thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, takes place on an island in Boston Harbor.
  • Sacco and Vanzetti, about the famous anarchists convicted of murder
  • A Small Circle of Friends, about Harvard in the 1960s and three students bonding together
  • Soul Man, a comedy about a man who poses as a black scholarship winner in order to attend Harvard Law School
  • Southie, a drama about a man who returns to Southie after leaving for several years to get away from the violence of the gangster life
  • The Social Network, a drama about the creation of the popular social networking site Facebook. Many scenes are set on the Harvard campus.
  • The Spanish Prisoner
  • Starting Over, a romantic comedy starring Burt Reynolds about a recent divorcee who relocates to Boston to restart his life
  • Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie, a documentary chronicling the 2003 baseball season of the Boston Red Sox
  • Stonados, a SyFy Channel television movie about Boston being ravaged by a rain of exploding rocks (starting with Plymouth Rock) from a freak meteorological event.
  • The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
  • Surrogates, a futuristic police thriller starring Bruce Willis
  • The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), about a wealthy businessman who robs banks for excitement
  • Titicut Follies, a documentary about Bridgewater State Hospital near Boston, and the lives of its mental patients
  • The Town, starring Ben Affleck
  • Ted (2012), starring Mark Walhberg
  • The Verdict, a legal drama about an alcoholic Boston lawyer
  • Vig (Money Kings), about an honest man who has to become a bookie
  • War of the Worlds, film adaptation of the novel. The film ends with Tom Cruise and his kids finally reaching Boston where his ex-wife lives.
  • What's the Worst That Could Happen?, about a rich man who catches a thief burglarizing his Boston home and steals the thief's lucky ring, which the thief then tries to get back
  • What's Your Number?, starring Chris Evans and Anna Faris
  • Walk East on Beacon!
  • With Honors (1994) With Brendan Fraser & Joe Pesci, about a Harvard student (Fraser) who loses the only copy of his thesis, traces it to a basement where it has been found by a homeless man (Pesci) who trades pages of the thesis for food and shelter
  • X2: X-Men United, X-Men sequel, in which two scenes take place in Boston. Boston is the home of Bobby Drake, alias Iceman.
  • Yellow Lights, a college drama that takes place at Wellesley College as well as a fictional college set in Newton, Massachusetts
  • House of the Damned, all of the interior shots were done in the house of the director, Sean Weathers in Brooklyn, NY. However, Weathers wanted a different feel for the exteriors so he and his cinematographer drove to Boston to re-shoot the exteriors months later without the actors.
    1. Zookeeper, shot at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo

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