is later known that the core stopped rotating The Departed, Martin Scorsese's 2006 hit film, takes place in Boston, with prominent use of Boston landmarks and culture; winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture Dirty Tricks, 1981 film starring Elliott Gould as a Harvard professor involved in an historical crime caper Edge of Darkness, 2010 crime thriller starring Mel Gibson The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington The 2005 remake of Fever Pitch, about a man's obsession with the Boston Red Sox Field of Dreams, Ray Kinsella's journey takes him through Boston to fetch Terence Mann and attend a game at Fenway Park. The Firm, film's opening takes place at Harvard The Forbidden Kingdom, martial arts comedy-drama about a Boston boy who enters a Chinese fantasy world, with Jet Li and Jackie Chan The Friends of Eddie Coyle, drama about an aging mob gun runner from Quincy who has to choose whether or not to inform on his Irish Mob friends to avoid jail time Fuzz, detectives from Boston's 87th Precinct's investigate a murder-extortion racket run by a mysterious deaf man The Game Plan Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film), in which the climactic kaiju battle starts in Fenway Park and destroys Boston Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck, takes place and was filmed in Boston Good Will Hunting, takes place in Boston: the characters live in South Boston, and some other action is set at Harvard and M.I.T. The Handmaid's Tale, set in the Harvard Square area Harvard Man, a basketball player strikes a deal with the mob to fix a basketball game The Heat, a comedy starring Sandra Bullock based in Boston Heaven's Gate, exterior Harvard scenes filmed at Oxford University Hollow Point (1996) Home Before Dark (1958), set in Boston and Cape Cod; adapted from the novel by Eileen Bassing; original negative is lost House of the Damned, all of the interior shots were done in the house of the director, Sean Weathers, in Brooklyn, New York; however, Weathers wanted a different feel for the exteriors so he and his cinematographer drove to Boston to reshoot the exteriors months later without the actors The House of Magic takes place in Boston and its hospital. Housesitter Ice Princess, takes place in Worcester, MA around the Greater Boston area, about a physics geek who dreams of becoming a professional ice skater and gets an offer to go to