the single greatest 1 LOCATION movie ever

[P Andersson]

"miracle of life"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/program.html

 

[Keith Alan Morris]

definitely 1 location. lol

"miracle of life"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/program.html

 

[Scott H. Jones]

What Happened Was

What Happened Was

Have to mention "What Happened Was" here. Character actor and writer Tom Noonan won Sundance with it in 1994, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit award in 1995. The whole movie follows the first date of two co-workers. It's set entirely in the girl's apartment. It was based on Noonan's play. They performed it off-off-Broadway before making the movie and so were able to rehearse it extensively. Great little movie.

 

[Keith Alan Morris]

i'll make a new completely updated and ALPHABETICAL list asap, if the hits keep on comin'!

 

[Mark K.]

In theatres now - Sunshine. Hard Candy is another recent one.

 

[Martin Weiss]

"Phone Booth" by Joel Schumacher (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183649/)

Might not be the greates ever, but possible the smallest location possible.

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

I've got a friend who speaks Russian... he was very impressed that Mr. Hanks spoke Russian without any accent.

He also spoke some pretty good Bulgarian. :wacko:

(that was supposed to be the language of the imaginary Cracosia...)

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

The Blair Witch Project

300+ mln. gross can't be wrong.

 

[Marc Berger]

"8 women" from Francois Ozon.

 

[David Birdy]

Breakfast Club, this one would have been easy on the budget and I bet it made a ton.

Agreed Finner

One location great Movie! Of course the writing & Acting make the movie!

Big chill was also single location. The Usual suspects had a few locations, but long on story short on locations!

EDIT: Das Boat & Dog Day Afternoon

Dave

 

[Erik Bien]

Lord of the Flies (and virtually every other "desert island" movie, i.e., the original "Enemy Mine," Hell in the Pacific).

 

[Ed Blythe]

Houseboat Horror

According to our good friends at Wikipedia: "It is often described as the worst Australian movie ever made."

AND RIGHTFULLY SO.

 

[Joe G.]

more

more

Closetland - Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe: 1 room.

Rocky Horror Picture Show: except for wedding at opening, all supposed to be 1 house.

Sin City: Shot indoors at Troublemaker Studios, all green screen. Rodriquez did something similar with his 3-D Shark Boy and Lava Girl.

More, if I think of them...

 

[Keith Alan Morris]

the exhaustive, arguable updated list of 1 location movies:

8 women - Francois Ozon
12 Angry Men
A Knife In The Water
Alien
Andy Warhol's Empire
Assault on Precinct 13
Bergman's Cries and Whispers*
Big Cahuna, The
Big Chill, The
Breakfast Club
Casi Casi
Cast Away
Celebration (Festen)
Clerks
Closetland - Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe: 1 room.
Coming Apart
Cube
Dark Star
Das Boot
Das Experiment
Day of the Dead
Death and the Maiden
Dog Day Afternoon
Dogville
(Andy Warhol's) Empire
Empire Records
Enemy Mine (orig)
Evil Dead
Familia
Feast
Flowers of Shanghai
Gabrielle
Glengarry Glen Ross
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Gosford Park
Halloween
Hard Candy
Hell in the Pacific
Hell Night
High and Low
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Houseboat Horror
Last Life in the Universe
Lifeboat
Lord of the Flies
Midnight Express, etc - (or most Prison Movies)
Misery
mr smith goes to washington
My Dinner With Andre
Night on Earth*
Night Of The living Dead
Oleanna
One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest
Open Water
Panic room
phonebooth
Poltergeist
Psycho
Punishment Park
Rashomon
Rear Window
Reservoir Dogs
Rope
Rope
Russian Ark
SAW
Session 9
Signs
Silent Running
Sin City
Sleep, Couch, Blow Job
Solaris
Stranded
Sunshine
Tape
Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice*
Temporada De Patos
The Andromeda Strain
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Descent
the fast runner
The Haunting, etc - (or most Haunted House horror films)
The Hole
The Last Castle
The Others
The Return of the Secaucus 7
The Shining
The Terminal
The Thing
The Usual Suspects (?)
The village
THX1138
Two Girls and a Guy
Wait Until Dark
What Happened Was
When A Stranger Calls
Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
Zabriskie Point

Sadly, I can't add my film Gutter King to the list. We shot it on one location and it just needed more so we shot all over Orlando.

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18517163424#/video/video.php?v=79492176728&oid=18517163424 or http://gutterking.tv

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

I'll mention it again. Since it's been 2 years.

The Big Kahuna.

99% of the film takes place in a hotel room.

 

[Keith Alan Morris]

I just added it. Sorry for that slight 2 years ago. (Phew. Glad I could get that off my chest. I've been feeling guilty for two years. jk!)

I also added Emipre Records.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

im writing a one location short right now (10-15min)
anything more than that, and my extremely constrictive location will get boring

 

[Brandon Kraemer]

My Dinner With Andre!

Exactly. Truly one location, practically one lighting setup! One of the better dialogue driven films of all time.

While I love Zambriskie Point, that film has lots and lots of locations. Not even close to a 1 location film. Neither is High and Low a one location film, a great movie however, with lots of exterior locations, police room scenes, etc....

Many of the films on this list don't qualify... Das Boat has a big sequence in the house before they launch. Cookoo's nest has the fishing sequence. Usual Suspects has lots of flash back scenes in many locations. Psycho has several locations, starting with an office in downtown Phoenix. Sin City has locations all over the place.

Sorry, not to pick nits.

 

[Liam Hall]

Phone booth...

Dog Day Afternoon

And talking of mental asylums, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was mostly (apart from the boat) one location.

Doh, just realised this is an old thread...

 

[Charles Angus]

Another vote for 12 Angry Men - fantastic.