Northeast Ski Areas in Movies

[Mildcat]

Shallow Hal was on tv the other night and they had a scene at Wachusetts. Do you know of any other movies with northeast ski areas in them?

 

[gmcunni]

icebreaker
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179861/

 

[billski]

Of course, all the documentaries about the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid / Whiteface.

I just ordered "Cool Runnings" from Netflix. I had never seen it, it's a comedy about the Jamaican Bobsled Team. I watched the in-sled footage of a run down the bobsled, stolen from this movie and placed on YouTube. While the movie is corny, the sled running footage is some of the best I've seen. I took a ride in the sled at LP last year, and I'll testify that's exactly what it looks like (and almost what it feels like short of getting your head banged around). I'm itching to watch it on a wide screen, which I don't have.

 

[frozencorn]

icebreaker
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179861/

An American classic.

 

[snowmonster]

In Scent of a Woman, there's a scene there where the main character (the high school kid with Al Pacino) calls his friends who are out skiing. The operator who connects the call says: "Hello, Killington lodge." No outside shots though so maybe this doesn't cut it on this thread.

 

[frozencorn]

Apparently, this movie:

The Legend of Lucy Keyes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428765/

Again, at Wachusettt, where they supposedly filmed another movie this spring.

http://blog.nj.com/skiing/2008/01/hollywood_may_return_to_wachus.html

 

[drjeff]

Gunstock made a very brief, profile appearance in On Golden Pond

 

[Stache]

Disney's 1999 Movie Johnny Tsunami is about a Hawaiian Surfer dude who's parents move to Vermont. Too bad all the skiing and snowboarding shots were filmed in UTAH.

 

[Mildcat]

Disney's 1999 Movie Johnny Tsunami is about a Hawaiian Surfer dude who's parents move to Vermont. Too bad all the skiing and snowboarding shots were filmed in UTAH.

Just like the hunting scenes in The Deer Hunter were shot in Washington State. Obviously not any mountains you would see in Pennsylvania.

 

[Philpug]

"Top of the hill" was filmed at Magic.

 

[jarrodski]

ski sundown is in that movie, TREES, or trees 2 i believe

 

[from_the_NEK]

Disney's 1999 Movie Johnny Tsunami is about a Hawaiian Surfer dude who's parents move to Vermont. Too bad all the skiing and snowboarding shots were filmed in UTAH.

I happened to be flipping channels and stumbled across this movie just as the kid was saying "I'm moving to Vermont". I thought 'hey that's cool that Vermont is in a Disney movie'. I proceeded to suffer through 25 minutes more of the movie hoping to see a piece of VT that I would recognize. then the ski/snowboard scenes started and I immediately noticed that the scenes were Utah or CO. The general America public is very gullible about these things. To bad for anyone that shows up to a mtn in VT expecting this...
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2770835712/tt0206064
There is actually a bit of ranting about this in the message board section on IMDb as well.

 

[billski]

Disney's 1999 Movie Johnny Tsunami is about a Hawaiian Surfer dude who's parents move to Vermont. Too bad all the skiing and snowboarding shots were filmed in UTAH.

Every time I drive by a film shoot I remind myself how little of each film is actually filmed on location. Instead, they create entire replicas in the studio grounds. No wonder movies cost so much to produce. It's like Hollywood doesn't trust the locale to be "authentic" enough. Then again, the film world is entirely superficial anyways.

 

[from_the_NEK]

The movie White Christmas (starring Bing Crosby) has a lot of references to sking/vacationing in Vemont. There are practically adds buried in the film. However, there is no mention of a specific mountain.

 

[bvibert]

ski sundown is in that movie, TREES, or trees 2 i believe

This movie?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419098/

Never heard of it. I might have to check it out just because Sundown is in it though.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Every time I drive by a film shoot I remind myself how little of each film is actually filmed on location. Instead, they create entire replicas in the studio grounds. No wonder movies cost so much to produce. It's like Hollywood doesn't trust the locale to be "authentic" enough. Then again, the film world is entirely superficial anyways.

It is quite obvious that a lot (if not all) of White Christmas was filmed on a sound stage.

 

[deadheadskier]

The Winter scenes from Alan Alda's movie the Four Seasons were shot in Stowe. Not at the resort specifically, but at Edson Hill Manor's ski touring center and at the Stowehof where ccskier and I worked back in the day.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Check out this list...
http://www.imdb.com/SearchPlots?vermont

Not that any of them were ACTUALLY shot in VT :-?

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Warren Miller's film(ad) about Sugarbush from the early 60's was shot at......Sugarbush. It's actually fun to watch.

 

[Tin Woodsman]

Gunstock made a very brief, profile appearance in On Golden Pond

You sure that was Gunstock? I had always been told that the "Golden Pond" was the lake adjacent to what is now Shawnee Peak.