Baltimore in fiction
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- In the 1997 film As Good As It Gets, the character of Melvin Udall (played by Jack Nicholson) gives his "queer neighbor" Simon (played by Greg Kinnear) a lift to Baltimore.
- Elaine Benes in Seinfeld originally came from Baltimore and supported the Baltimore Orioles while sitting in the New York Yankees owner's box in an episode of Seinfeld
- Thomas Harris' Dr. Hannibal Lecter operated a Psychiatric practice in Baltimore before his confinement.
- Baltimore is featured in the police procedural books and series based on the work of author and former police reporter David Simon, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire.
- In addition, Simon's reality-based book and TV miniseries on drug dealers, The Corner, is set in Baltimore.
- Homicide executive producer Barry Levinson is a native of Baltimore, and he set his films Diner, Tin Men, Avalon, and Liberty Heights in the City.
- A significant portion of the Terry Gilliam science fiction thriller Twelve Monkeys takes place in Baltimore.
- Several episodes of The X-Files were set in Baltimore.
- Baltimore native Tom Clancy, a graduate of Loyola Blakefield and Loyola College in Maryland, often includes Baltimore and other parts of Maryland in his action/spy thriller novels and their corresponding feature films. In the film The Sum of All Fears, based on the Clancy novel of the same name, Baltimore is devastated by a terrorist nuclear bomb. In the book, however, the attack takes place in Denver.
- Maryland native Nora Roberts also uses Maryland and particularly parts of the Chesapeake Bay as settings for her novels. This includes Baltimore in such novels as Inner Harbor.
- Anne Tyler lived in Baltimore for many years, and many of her books are set there, including The Accidental Tourist, which was also made into a movie.
- Becky Anderson's novel In Stereo Where Available is partially set in Baltimore, including scenes set in the National Aquarium in Baltimore and a club resembling the now-closed Baja Beach Club.
- Ronald Damien Malfi's novel The Nature of Monsters is the first of a loosely-based Baltimore trilogy.
- John Waters' films are all set in Baltimore, and they have all premiered at the historic Senator Theatre.
- Laura Lippman is the author of detective fiction set in Baltimore, most notably the Tess Monaghan novels.
- The show One on One is set in Baltimore until Breanna moves to Los Angeles for college in season 5 (2005-2006).
- Roc was an American sitcom set in Baltimore.
- The action-horror video game The Suffering: Ties That Bind is set in Baltimore.
- The film Ladder 49, starring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix, is set in Baltimore.
- The musical Hairspray and its 2007 film adaptation are set in 1960s Baltimore and feature the song "Good Morning Baltimore".
- The film Enemy of the State, starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman, had a significant portion set and filmed in Baltimore.
- The film Live Free or Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis was filmed in downtown Baltimore.
- The film ...And Justice for All (film), starring Al Pacino is set in Baltimore.
- The fictional character, Jane Porter, Tarzan's love interest, is a native of Baltimore and the last part of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, is set there.
- The Kevin Bacon film He Said, She Said was filmed and set in Baltimore. The main characters begin as writers for the Baltimore Sun.
- Meg Ryan's character in Sleepless in Seattle, Annie Reed, works for the Baltimore Sun and some of the scenes are shot at the paper's offices on North Calvert Street.
- In the 1922 short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", the titular character is born in Baltimore.
- Tim Cockey's mystery novel series, starring the character Hitchcock Sewell is based in Baltimore
- Both Step Up and its sequel Step Up 2 The Streets are set in Baltimore.
- The 2008 film First Sunday starring Katt Williams, Ice Cube, and Tracy Morgan is filmed and set in the City of Baltimore.
- In Season 7 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Mike Keppler, Grissom's temporary replacement, touches a dead body, to which Catherine Willows says, "Is that how they do it in Baltimore?"
- In season two of House MD an episode took place in Baltimore
- Baltimore is known as an Internet Phenomenon based on a vulgar commercial of Big Bill Hell's cars, with the beginning statement, "Fuck you Baltimore!"
