Beautiful Parks
Anyone who has seen postcards of Los Angeles will instantly recognize the Santa Monica Pier for its iconic Ferris wheel and spiraling rollercoaster. Movie-watchers will also remember it for scenes in The Sting, Forrest Gump, Hancock, Titanic, Iron Man, and A Night at the Roxbury. List of movies filmed at the Santa Monica Pier.
The largest "endless" pier on the California Coast was used as a primary filming location for the popular TV series, The O.C.. Three seasons of the television series Riptide were filmed in King Harbor. The television show Dexter filmed scenes at the Redondo Pier. Did anyone happen to see The Black Pearl from Pirates Of The Caribbean pull into the Redondo Beach King Harbor? The Black Pearl, a cursed sea vessel, was moored in the harbor for several weeks in 2006. The beach scene in Big Momma's House 2 was filmed in Redondo Beach and the pier. List of movies filmed at the Redondo Beach Pier.
The Jazz Singer
In the story Jolson lived in a beach house near the Venice Pier since they filmed numerous scenes at a beach front home several blocks north of the Venice Fishing Pier.
The Big Fix
Richard Dreyfuss plays detective Moses Wine, a nice guy who sings his kids to sleep over the phone. His ex-wife goes out with a BEST trainer. Moses Wine pursues the villain to a house in the canal district, #451 on some street, which turns out to be boarded up. There are scenes at the Israel Levin Senior Adult Center, the boardwalk, and a pier, which one I'm not sure.
Falling Down
Douglas' girlfriend lives on a side street off the Boardwalk. And at the end of the movie, when policeman Duvall corners the psychotic defense worker Douglas on the Venice fishing pier at Washington St., leaps off the pier into the Pacific Ocean and drowns.