Payton McCarty-Simas is a freelance writer based in New York City.
Summary Since the 1970s, “the Boston movie” has become its own cultural institution. Spurred by a sudden crime wave, a series of gang wars, and rampant government corruption in the Bay State, this loose subgenre has coalesced over the past half-century into something familiar.
A classic of the genre, the story behind The Boondock Saints is just as quintessentially New England as the final product itself. Hartford-native and aspiring metal musician Troy Duffy wrote the script for The Boondock Saints while he was tending bar in LA. According to the making-of documentary, Overnight, which chronicles the myriad of small-scale disasters the production faced, Duffy was able to get the attention of Harvey Weinstein, whose production company financed the film.
Unlike many other Boston movies, this one takes its cues from Hitchcock and James Bond rather than John Cassavetes and Paul Schrader. It’s more aligned with contemporaries like The Italian Job than it is with the gruffer, rough-and-tumble New Hollywood offerings on the horizon, a la Mikey and Nicky. Still, under its dapper exteriors and Rope-esque stylings, it’s a Boston movie, through and through.
7 Mystic River Directed By Clint Eastwood Close Mystic River Director Clint Eastwood Release Date October 15, 2003 Cast Sean Penn , Tim Robbins , Kevin Bacon , Laurence Fishburne , Marcia Gay Harden , Laura Linney Like The Boston Strangler, Mystic River is an investigative film. This neo-noir, directed by Clint Eastwood, was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture, when it was released in 2003, and is one of the pillars of the Boston movie genre.
Set almost contemporaneously with The Thomas Crown Affair, this film’s varied location shooting and cast of naturalistic character actors make it a poignant portrait of a city in the midst of a financial decline. Its characters are defined by their loneliness and the precarity of their ties to their communities, torn apart by the dual incentives of love and money .
4 The Town Directed By Ben Affleck The Town 4.5 Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, The Town is a crime thriller detailing a robber developing romantic feelings for one of his victims after a robbery takes place. As these complicated feelings develop, the team makes plans to Rob Fenway Park. Aside from Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Blake Lively, and Jeremy Renner also star in the movie.
Director Tom McCarthy Release Date November 25, 2015 Cast John Slattery , Rachel McAdams , Michael Keaton , Jamey Sheridan , Stanley Tucci , Billy Crudup , Brian D'Arcy James , Mark Ruffalo , Liev Schreiber Spotlight, which won Best Picture, is less of a crime drama and more of a procedural thriller in the style of All the President’s Men. The film is based on the true story of The Boston Globe spotlight team’s investigation of child abuse in the Catholic Church’s Boston diocese.
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