Salt Lake City in film

The following is a list of films which are set in or around Salt Lake City, Utah. Note that Utah is a right-to-work state, and as such, has become a popular filming location, because actors and labor are not required to follow rules for the Screen Actors Guild. Salt Lake City provides a generic Western urban landscape, often playing the substitute for Los Angeles, Denver, or unnamed cities. Salt Lake City is a great place to film movies/shows.

Films set in Salt Lake City

• Airport 1975
• Brigham Young
• Forever Strong
• Mr. Krueger's Christmas
• Net Worth
• Plan 10 from Outer Space (a spoof based on Plan 9 from Outer Space)
• SLC Punk!

Films shot in Salt Lake City

• 127 Hours
• Airport 1975
• Brigham Young
• The Brown Bunny
• Carnival of Souls
• Con Air
• Dawn of the Dead
• Drive Me Crazy
• Dumb and Dumber
• Forever Strong
• Halloween sequels after Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• High School Musical
• High School Musical 2
• High School Musical 3
• The House of Seven Corpses
• Independence Day
• Letters from a Killer
• A Life Less Ordinary
• Melvin and Howard
• Minutemen
• Mr. Krueger's Christmas
• My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
• The Philadelphia Experiment
• Pool Hall Junkies
• Revenge of the Ninja
• The Sandlot
• Savannah Smiles
• SLC Punk!
• Three O'Clock High
• Unaccompanied Minors
• Unhook the Stars
• The Way of the Gun
• The World's Fastest Indian
• Windrunner: A Spirited Journey

Television shows shot in Salt Lake City

• The Amazing Race 8
• portions of Big Love
• portions of Everwood
• episodes of Flip Men
• Insomniac with Dave Attell Season 4
• The Jerk Theory
• Promised Land
• The TV miniseries of The Stand
• Touched by an Angel Almost entirely filmed on location throughout Salt Lake City and Utah.
• Breaking Pointe Reality TV show following Ballet West and highlighting downtown locations.
• portion of Top Gear America "Best Taxi Challenge" Season 3 episode 11, Drifting BMW M5
• Little Chocolatiers Entirely filmed in Salt Lake City.