Amazing.  Only two good movies on that list (and it would still be only two good movies if Iron Will and the also not-included Far North would have made the list).

I'm just surprised that anyone besides the Coens have bothered filming Minnesota-located movies in Minnesota -- hell, that they even set them here.  If only they had filmed Gran Torino here.

The Patty Duke/Richard Thomas movie shot at Glensheen was titled You'll Like My Mother. I bought a used copy several years ago and watched it again. Not a bad film.

Agreed with topofthehillman on Torino.  Fantastic Clint movie, he was totally robbed at the Academy Awards that year.  Too bad it wasn't filmed in MN.  It had a lot of Minnesotans in it, though.  

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One Minnesota movie I enjoyed (at the time) was Untamed Heart with Marisa Tomei and Christian "Pump up the Volume" Slater.    

I haven't seen it in at least 15 years though, and my tastes have changedm so who knows, maybe on a second viewing it will be crap.  Purple Rain definitely induces a few eye rolls if you look at it again now, 25 years later.

Grumpier Old Men should be on there too.  I worked as an extra down in Stillwater for the wedding scene.  

In Mallrats I met Stan Lee one late night while filming at Eden Prairie Center.  I was 18 and had no idea who any of the people in the movie really were.  I was kinda scared of Ben Affleck because I had just seen Dazed and Confused and he was a quiet guy when everyone sat to eat together.  Lower budget so there weren't many extras, but I was a senior in high school making $300 a day to be in the background. You can go to that mall, or the "dirt mall," which was in Monticello.

One morning on my way to high school in Fridley, I passed a giant movie crew surrounding a weird 1980s-modern house. A few years later, I watched Bound and Gagged: A Love Story (nsfw) and recognized the weird house right off! (It was the fucking-on-the-TV scene, if anyone is curious.)

Two things:  

First, this post tells me that we may need our own actual best Minnesota films list for PDD.

And secondly, I'm not sure where you were headed with the "Bound and Gagged" question, Paul, but I could see a PDD screening of that one sometime, somewhere ... if only my old balcony were open, that sounds like it would've been a great title for a brew-n-view.  It might be a little too mature subject matter for me, but those Black Labels dudes, who basically curated that series, used to come up with quirky flicks like that back when we could.

Another Emilio Estevez flick, adaptation of S.E. Hinton's That was Then ... This is Now, was shot on the East Side of St. Paul, where I grew up. One scene took place under the railroad viaduct off West 7th, right next to Lou's Viaduct Inn, where I worked as a short order cook.

"Far North" may have had some extras in it, but I think it was a pretty closed set.  I remember watching one scene being shot on the Lift Bridge, right outside of Grandma's.  I couldn't believe there was a Hollywood movie shooting below that full deck (Sam Shepard was right there!) and the college boys and girls could not have been more disinterested.  

That scene, by the way, is in the final movie, although it was reshot during the day and somewhere else in Canal Park.  I always wondered why that was...

Bound and Gagged was interesting and fun, but not exactly flawless storytelling and acting. It's not nearly as porno-rific as the trailer makes it appear to be, but still not something you should show your grandma...

I really hated the E.P. Center. Except for Aladain's Castle. Or tripping there while screening "Toxic Avender." Or smoking weed in the air conditioner bunker for Powers/Carsons Pirie Scott. Or smashing carts in the target parking lot. Or rolling down the hill drunk near Sears. Or eating greasy pizza in the old basement foodcourt. Or riding my BMX bike down the orange carpet ramp in the middle of the mall. Or seeing Gordon from Sesame Street in 1978. Or seeing Gary Specca and his dominoes circa 1980. Or seeing Prince arrive at the movies with his latest hot piece of ass circa the Lovesexy era. Hi, Carmen!