Good Will Hunting
With Boston in our prayers and out hearts, we thought we'd celebrate the Masschusetts capital by taking a look at the many movies and television series that are based in and around Beantown.
Matt Damon plays a math prodigy from Southie while Ben Affleck costars as his less academically inclined best friend. The original bromancers picked up Oscars for writing the screenplay.
The Departed
Martin Scorsese directed Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson in this Oscar-winning crime thriller about a crooked state police officer and his ties to the Irish mob.
The Next Karate Kid
Before Hilary Swank became a two-time Academy Award winner, she played Mr. Miyagi's Boston-bred protégé.
Ted
Mark Wahlberg plays a man whose best friend is a horny potty-mouthed talking teddy bear.
Gone Baby Gone
Ben Affleck made his feature film directorial debut with this crime drama about two private investigators searching for a little girl abducted from her Dorchester neighborhood.
The Town
Affleck followed up Gone Baby Gone with another crime thriller, this time about a longtime thief (Affleck) being pursued by an FBI agent (Jon Hamm).
Fever Pitch
Drew Barrymore is a workaholic who finds romance with a man obsessed with the Boston Red Sox (Jimmy Fallon).
The Social Network
The story of Facebook, which started in Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room.
Legally Blonde
Elle Woods (Reese Withersoon) proved she was a blonde with brains when she became a lawyer after graduating from...Harvard!
Love Story
We dare you not to shed a tear when watching this iconic romantic melodrama is responsible for the line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Cheers
The most famous Boston-based television series centered around the bar where everyone knows your name.
Fringe
J.J. Abrams cocreated this series starring Joshua Jackson as a member of the FBI's "Fringe Division" based in Boston.
The Practice
The television series was the first of a handful of successful legal dramadies created by David E. Kelley.
Boston Legal
The Practice spinoff starred William Shatner and James Spader.
Crossing Jordan
Jilly Hennessy played a crime solving pathologist in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Ally McBeal
Kelley's most well-known legal drama made Calista Flockhart a household name. And who could ever forget Dancing Baby?
Boston Public
Kelley's nonlegal drama was about a fictional public high school in Beantown.
Boston Common
Comedian Anthony Clarke played a twentysomething who relocates to Boston after helping his sister move there for college. Show creators Max Mutchnik and David Kohan went on to find mega-success with Will & Grace.
The Real World: Boston
Long before Jersey Shore, there was The Real World. Boston was the locale for season six back in 1997. Three years later, castmember Sean Duffy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from his home state of Wisconsin.
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