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* Averted in ''[[Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever]]'', which was both filmed and set in Vancouver. It seems odd that the authorities in Canada would allow Americans to run around blowing crap up and treating the city as a shooting gallery, but those who saw ''Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever'' and were unimpressed would likely argue the authorities were pretending that none of this was happening and ignored it.
* ''Before Sunrise'': Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke manage to get ''everywhere'' in Vienna, despite only spending only one night there. Pretty amazing, if you consider that the location are spread out over the city and are visited in random order. It's even more amazing if you consider that all of this time they never get on a bus or take a taxi (except once - during the day).
* ''
* ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' caused residents of Riverton, Wyoming, to look out on the dry, arid scorched land (residents of that area beam with pride that the desolate alien planet in ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' was filmed there) and ponder where these lush mountain vistas were that kept popping up.
* ''[[Casino Royale]]'', at one point, had [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] driving along a lovely Bahamian ocean road past some sort of charming open-air market. There's absolutely ''nothing'' out there but houses.
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** Of course, the story was deliberately set in an ambiguous setting.
** The Tim Burton version isn't much better - we get a picture Bavarian [[Cliché Storm]] from the south of Germany. But the town mentioned lies in northern Germany which is very much not like Bavaria.
* The Dabney Coleman/Henry Thomas film ''
* Averted in ''The Collector'', which is set and filmed entirely within the confines of the city of Vancouver. And "'only'" Vancouver, none of the adjacent municipalities.
* ''[[Coronation Street]]'' featured a [[Chase Scene]] showing a car turning a corner in Salford and crashing into a canal in Ashton (about 8 miles or so apart).
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* By the same token, much of the scenes in the 1994 remake of ''Angels in the Outfield'' were shot at Oakland's Alameda Coliseum rather than the Angels' home field of Anaheim Stadium.
* The first ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' film shows K spying on his pre-[[Masquerade]] wife in Truro. The map starts with all of Massachusetts, zooms in on Cape Cod ... and zooms in on ''Sandwich'', about as far as you can get from Truro. Ironically, the lush forest in the background of "Truro" looks much more like Sandwich.
* When the Griswolds set out from Chicago in ''
** Some tall palm trees, and maybe even mountains, can be seen in the background of the early scenes at the car dealership as well. Oops.
* Another [[Nicolas Cage]] example, from ''[[National Treasure]] 2: Book of Secrets''. In the car chase in [[London Town]], the cars cross Westminster Bridge north to south, engage in a chase in what is clearly the City of London, which is north of the Thames - you can see the street signs, then cross Southwark Bridge ''again north to south''.
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* ''Taking Lives'' is set in Montreal, which you can tell from the establishing shot of... the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau_Frontenac Château Frontenac]. Oh, dear.
* The [[Tom Hanks]] vehicle ''Turner and Hooch'' includes a conversation scene that repeatedly switches back and forth between two camera angles -- one angle looking out at Moss Landing Harbor, and the other, looking inland at Pacific Grove, twenty or thirty miles south.
* ''
* There is an [[Alfred Hitchcock]] thriller in which the American protagonist comes to Stockholm to receive a Nobel Prize. In one scene he falls off the Symphonic Hall into Lake Malaren, which in fact is about a kilometre away from that building. Also, the seasons are wrong: the Nobel Prizes are awarded in early December when Lake Malaren is about +4 degrees Celsius. If you fall into it, the cold will paralyze you in seconds.
** The movie is called "The Prize" and is well worth watching even if it has some minor mistakes. (Also, it was directed by Mark Robson rather than Hitchcock.)
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* ''[[48 Hrs.]]''; Chinatown is ''not'' "down the alley" from the Mission District.
* In the climax of Guy Richie's ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'', characters somehow manage to run from the sewers of the Houses of Parliament to the top of the newly constructed tower bridge within minutes. The two land marks are miles apart.
* In ''
* ''[[Legally Blonde]] 2'' takes place in Washington, D.C. Not a single scene was filmed there. Luckily for the filmmakers, plenty of states have state capitols that look very similar to the US capitol. They chose [[wikipedia:Illinois State Capitol|Illinois']] and [[wikipedia:Utah State Capitol|Utah's,]] then hung around Salt Lake City to film other scenes in the Energy Solutions Arena's offices.
* ''[[Rocky II]]'': During the opening credits, an ambulance takes Rocky from the (now-demolished) Spectrum over a Delaware River bridge (which would take you to New Jersey), into downtown Philadelphia, around City Hall ''twice'', and to Pennsylvania Hospital. The actual route would be a straight shot 20 blocks up Broad Street, six blocks down Locust, and one block over. Even then, you'd pass several closer hospitals.
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