Region 6 - West Virginia Department of Commerce

Story Credits — Productions with West Virginia Storyline(Dozens of studio and independent feature films and televisionproductions have featured West Virginia storylines, fictional and nonfictional,of which a brief list is highlighted below.)2006, WE ARE MARSHALL, Warner Bros.DIRECTOR: McGCAST: Matthew McConaughey, David Strathairn, Matthew Fox,Anthony Mackie, Ian McShane, Kate Mara, Arlen Escarpeta,Robert PatrickWV FILMING LOCATIONS: Huntington (Cabell County), Ceredo(Wayne County)STORYLINE: True story about the worst air tragedy in thehistory of collegiate athletics, “We Are Marshall” documents thefateful night of November 14, 1970, when 75 members of theMarshall University football team, coaches, university staff,community members, and flight crew were killed in a planecrash while traveling back to Huntington after a game in NorthCarolina. As those left behind struggled to cope with thedevastating loss of their loves ones, the grieving families foundhope and strength in the leadership of Jack Lengyel, a youngcoach who was determined to rebuild Marshall’s footballprogram and, in the process, helped to heal a community.2003, WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON!, DreamWorks LLCDIRECTOR: Robert LuketicCAST: John Duhamel, Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace, NathanLane, Sean HayesWV FILMING LOCATIONS: Fayetteville (Fayette County),Grandview (Raleigh County), along Kanawha River/LondonLocks (Kanawha County)STORYLINE: Fictional story set in the real town of Frazier’sBottom (Putnam County) — a small-town girl wins a date witha male celebrity through a contest.2002, THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, Sony PicturesDIRECTOR: Mark PellingtonCAST: Richard Gere, Debra Messing, Will PattonSTORYLINE: Set in the real town of Point Pleasant (MasonCounty) and based on legendary accounts of strange eventswith ties to a moth-like creature.2001, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, Universal PicturesDIRECTOR: Ron HowardCAST: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, ChristopherPlummerSTORYLINE: Fact-based account on Bluefield, WV (MercerCounty) native John Nash, Jr., recipient of 1994 Nobel Prize inEconomic Sciences.1999, OCTOBER SKY, Universal PicturesDIRECTOR: Joe JohnstonCAST: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris OwenSTORYLINE: Fact-based account on Coalwood, WV (McDowellCounty) native and author Homer Hickam’s book “RocketBoys”.1988, GOODBYE, MISS 4TH OF JULY (television motionpicture)DIRECTOR: George MillerCAST: Louis Gossett, Jr., Chris Sarandon, Chynna Phillips,Conchata FerrellSTORYLINE: Fictional drama set in a small WV town centeringaround a family that takes a stand against racism.1986, MATEWAN, Artisan EntertainmentDIRECTOR: John SaylesCAST: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, WillOldham, David StrathairnWV FILMING LOCATIONS: Filmed entirely in Thurmond andNew River Gorge regions (Fayette County)STORYLINE: Fictionalized retelling of events that led up to avicious 1920 battle between striking miners and union bustingprivate detectives.1986, ACT OF VENGEANCE, Warner Bros.DIRECTOR: John MackenzieCAST: Charles Bronson, Ellen BurstynSTORYLINE: Fact-based account on the corruption thatoccurred during the United Mine Workers 1969 presidentialelections.1986, A KILLING AFFAIR, Hemdale Film CorporationDIRECTOR: David SapersteinCAST: Peter Weller, Kathy Baker, John Glover, Bill SmitrovichSTORYLINE: Fictional drama about a widow who takes in adrifter she believes killed her husband.1973-74, HAWKINS, CBS-TV seriesDIRECTOR: Jeff CoreyCAST: James Stewart, Strother MartinSTORYLINE: The court cases of slow-talking West Virginiaattorney Billy Jim Hawkins (Stewart).1955, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, MGMDIRECTOR: Charles LaughtonCAST: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, JamesGleason, Peter GravesWRITER: Davis Grubb (Moundsville, Marshall County native)WV FILMING LOCATIONS: Moundsville (Marshall County),Sistersville (Taylor County), New Martinsville (Wetzel)STORYLINE: Fictional drama based on the Davis Grubb novel— a false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man’sfamily to find where he hid the money from a robbery.1947, THE MILLERSON CASE, Columbia PicturesDIRECTOR: George ArchainbaudCAST: Warner Baxter , Nancy Saunders, Clem Bevans, GriffBarnettSTORYLINE: Fictional drama (the 8th film of Columbia’s“Crime Doctor” series) set in the Blue Ridge Mountains duringa typhoid epidemic break-out.1998, PATCH ADAMS, Universal PicturesDIRECTOR: Tom ShadyacCAST: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, PhilipSeymour HoffmanSTORYLINE: Fact-based account on Dr. Hunter “Patch”Adams, a holistic doctor who founded Gesundheit! Institute inHillsboro, WV (Pocahontas County).24