Rhode Island in popular culture

The state of Rhode Island is often depicted in popular culture, partly due to its natives the Farrelly brothers and former residence of the creator of the television show Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane. The following is a list of popular culture in Rhode Island.

Television

• The Showtime series Brotherhood is set in Providence.
• The animated sitcom Family Guy (1999 – 2002; 2005 – present) is set in the fictional town of Quahog.
• Providence, a TV series originally seen on the NBC network
• Doctor Doctor (TV series set in Providence, 1989–1991)
• On FOX's popular X-Files (1993 – 2001) TV series, character Fox Mulder's family lives in Chepachet, a small town in the Northern area of the state. His mother retires to Quonochontaug, an even smaller community in South County.
• Ghost Hunters (TV series set in Warwick)
• Canterbury's Law (TV series set in Providence and surrounding areas.)

Film

• Portions of the 2008 romantic comedy 27 Dresses were filmed in several locations throughout the state of Rhode Island, notably Mills Tavern in downtown Providence, Club Hell in Providence, and several beaches and mansions in Newport and Chepachet.
• The Academy Award-winning film Reversal of Fortune (Jeremy Irons - Best Actor in a Lead Role). A film, written by famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, who, in real life defended the wealthy yet eccentric Claus Von Bulow for the attempted [...] of his wife, Sunny, in Newport, Rhode Island.
• The Academy Award-winning 1974 film The Great Gatsby based on the classic American novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, and Edward Herrmann was filmed in Newport, RI at the Rosecliff Mansion on Bellevue Ave.
• The critically-acclaimed 2007 drama Evening, which featured an ensemble cast starring Claire Danes, Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Hugh Dancy, Glenn Close, and Meryl Streep was filmed partially in Rhode Island. The film was primarily set Newport and included large portions filmed at Gooseberry Beach.
• The Last Shot (Movie, 2004), starring Alec Baldwin and Mathew Broderick
• Getting Out of Rhode Island (Movie, 2003)
• Federal Hill (Movie, 1994)
• The movie Meet Joe Black starring Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt was filmed at Warwick's Aldrich Mansion.
• Most of the movie Dan In Real Life starring Steve Carrell and Dane Cook is set in Rhode Island.
• Scenes from the film Amistad (film) were filmed in [Newport Rhode Island]
• The 2007 family film Underdog (movie) was filmed in Providence. Filming locations included Hope High School on the East Side of Providence. For the final theatrical cut of scenes in which Underdog flies through city streets, buildings in Providence's downcity district are combined with computer-generated buildings to create a completely original look.

By the Farrelly Brothers

• Outside Providence (Movie, 1999), Directed by Michael Corrente, starring Alec Baldwin. The movie was filmed on the actual campus of the University of Rhode Island
• There's Something About Mary (Movie 1998), Directed by the Farrelly brothers, starring Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller, romantic comedy partially set in Providence, Cumberland and Barrington
• Providence, a 1991 American/Canadian movie with Keanu Reeves
• Dumb and Dumber (Movie)
• Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (prequel to Dumb and Dumber)
• Me, Myself and Irene (Movie, 2000), Directed by the Farrelly brothers, starring Jim Carrey who plays a Rhode Island State Trooper with multiple personalities.

Other

• The Justice League of America's first headquarters was depicted in the comic books as being in a cave in the fictional district of Happy Harbor, in Rhode Island.
• The massively multiplayer online game City of Heroes is set in the fictional city of Paragon City, Rhode Island, on the state's coast overlooking the Atlantic. An expansion to the game also features another fictional Rhode Island town, Salamanca.
• The popular videogame Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is focused around the happenings in a mansion in Rhode Island.
• Caitlín R. Kiernan's dark-fantasy novel Daughter of Hounds is set primarily in Providence, but also features such other Rhode Island locales as Woonsocket and Kingston.
• Guitar virtuoso Guthrie Govan has a song on his solo album named "Rhode Island Shred"
• The Eagles' song "The Last Resort", from their album Hotel California opens with the line "She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island."
• Several books by young-adult author Edward Irving Wortis, better known by his pen name Avi, are set at least partially in Rhode Island. Something Upstairs, The Man Who Was Poe, and Newbery Honor book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle are among these. Wortis himself lived in Providence until the mid-1990s.

See also

• Rhode Island
• Farrelly Brothers
• Seth Macfarlane.