South Carolina
Hopefully, South Carolina’s biggest export are Kleenex, Because you’ll definitely need one after watching the Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling tear-jerking The Notebook. An adorable, romantic love story, with the South Carolina backdrop providing lots of magnificence. Once you wiped away all the tears, you can enjoy these South Carolina-set films, the 1980s dramedy The Big Chill, Mel Gibson’s, The Patriot; liberal, coming-of-age drama The Secret Life of Bees; and gruesome, funny horror flick Slither.
South Dakota
On paper, Badlands is a courageous crime drama about two lovers (Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek) on a murder splurge. But on screen, director Terrence Malick changes the subject into a poetic ballad to love and America, portraying South Dakota as a character itself. South Dakota runner-up is Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest only has one version but its incredible, Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint hang from Mount Rushmore!