The "Bloody Jack" historical-fiction series, by
L. A. Meyer, first mentioned in The Curse of the Blue Tattoo, when Jacky is put off in Boston to attend Lawson Peabody's School for Young Girls
The Chippendales by
Robert Grant, novel, old Boston society confronted by the emerging new in the 1880s
Combat Boy by James Vance Elliott, a novel featuring both the Boston crime world of the 70s and the Massachusetts high-tech world of the 90s
Crisis by
Robin Cook, novel, early 21st century; begins with a tale of two doctors, one practicing in NYC and one in Boston, with the former's trial for malpractice taking place in Boston; most of the action occurs in Boston
The Late George Apley by
John P. Marquand; tragicomic satire of the life of an upper-class Bostonian from the mid-19th century to the Great Depression; winner of the Pulitzer Prize
You Can't Take a Balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman; a children's picture book about a girl's lost balloon floating past landmarks in Boston
Zodiac by
Neal Stephenson; an eco-thriller focusing on industrial pollution in Boston Harbor
Television
A number of popular television series are set in
Boston, four of which were notably created by
David E. Kelley, who grew up in suburban Boston.
Chasing Life, about a journalist in Boston who is diagnosed with leukemia
Cheers, by Charles-Burrow-Charles Productions and
Paramount Pictures; centered on a Boston bar, which in reality is the
Bull & Finch Pub. In the sequel to Cheers,
Frasier, Dr. Frasier Crane frequently refers to Boston.
Crossing Jordan, crime drama, follows the lives of Boston Medical Examiner Jordan Cavanaugh and her co-workers
Charly, based on Flowers for Algernon, about a mentally challenged man who receives treatment for his disability
A Civil Action, about several families who attempt to sue a company for dumping
toxic waste that gave their children
leukemia; filmed all over Boston, ironically not in
Woburn, where it takes place, but in
Palmer
Coma is set at the fictional Boston Memorial Hospital
Home Before Dark (1958), set in Boston and Cape Cod; adapted from the novel by Eileen Bassing; original negative is lost
House of the Damned, all of the interior shots were done in the house of the director,
Sean Weathers, in Brooklyn, New York; however, Weathers wanted a different feel for the exteriors so he and his cinematographer drove to Boston to reshoot the exteriors months later without the actors[citation needed]
Ice Princess, takes place in
Worcester, MA around the
Greater Boston area, about a physics geek who dreams of becoming a professional ice skater and gets an offer to go to
Harvard but turns down that offer
Johnny Tremain, 1957 Disney film based on the novel of the same name
The Last Detail, about two
United States Navy policemen who decide to take out a young sailor for one last night on the town (through Boston's
Combat Zone) before he goes to jail
Mystic River, Oscar-winning drama about three childhood friends who later reunite after the murder of one of their daughters; set in a fictional area of Boston called "Buckingham Flats"; filmed in
East Boston and
South Boston
The Paper Chase, about a student struggling through Harvard Law School, based on the 1970 novel;
John Houseman won an Oscar for his role as Professor Kingsfield
Stonados, a
Sci-Fi Channel television movie about Boston being ravaged by a rain of exploding rocks (starting with Plymouth Rock) from a freak meteorological event
What's the Worst That Could Happen?, about a rich man who catches a thief burglarizing his Boston home and steals the thief's lucky ring, which the thief then tries to get back
With Honors (1994), with Brendan Fraser and Joe Pesci, about a Harvard student who loses the only copy of his thesis and traces it to a basement where it has been found by a homeless man who trades pages of the thesis for food and shelter
X2: X-Men United, X-Men sequel, in which two scenes take place in Boston, the home of Bobby Drake, alias Iceman
Yellow Lights, college drama that takes place at
Wellesley College as well as a fictional college set in Newton
The "Bloody Jack" historical-fiction series, by
L. A. Meyer, first mentioned in The Curse of the Blue Tattoo, when Jacky is put off in Boston to attend Lawson Peabody's School for Young Girls
The Chippendales by
Robert Grant, novel, old Boston society confronted by the emerging new in the 1880s
Combat Boy by James Vance Elliott, a novel featuring both the Boston crime world of the 70s and the Massachusetts high-tech world of the 90s
Crisis by
Robin Cook, novel, early 21st century; begins with a tale of two doctors, one practicing in NYC and one in Boston, with the former's trial for malpractice taking place in Boston; most of the action occurs in Boston
The Late George Apley by
John P. Marquand; tragicomic satire of the life of an upper-class Bostonian from the mid-19th century to the Great Depression; winner of the Pulitzer Prize
You Can't Take a Balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman; a children's picture book about a girl's lost balloon floating past landmarks in Boston
Zodiac by
Neal Stephenson; an eco-thriller focusing on industrial pollution in Boston Harbor
Television
A number of popular television series are set in
Boston, four of which were notably created by
David E. Kelley, who grew up in suburban Boston.
Chasing Life, about a journalist in Boston who is diagnosed with leukemia
Cheers, by Charles-Burrow-Charles Productions and
Paramount Pictures; centered on a Boston bar, which in reality is the
Bull & Finch Pub. In the sequel to Cheers,
Frasier, Dr. Frasier Crane frequently refers to Boston.
Crossing Jordan, crime drama, follows the lives of Boston Medical Examiner Jordan Cavanaugh and her co-workers
Charly, based on Flowers for Algernon, about a mentally challenged man who receives treatment for his disability
A Civil Action, about several families who attempt to sue a company for dumping
toxic waste that gave their children
leukemia; filmed all over Boston, ironically not in
Woburn, where it takes place, but in
Palmer
Coma is set at the fictional Boston Memorial Hospital
Home Before Dark (1958), set in Boston and Cape Cod; adapted from the novel by Eileen Bassing; original negative is lost
House of the Damned, all of the interior shots were done in the house of the director,
Sean Weathers, in Brooklyn, New York; however, Weathers wanted a different feel for the exteriors so he and his cinematographer drove to Boston to reshoot the exteriors months later without the actors[citation needed]
Ice Princess, takes place in
Worcester, MA around the
Greater Boston area, about a physics geek who dreams of becoming a professional ice skater and gets an offer to go to
Harvard but turns down that offer
Johnny Tremain, 1957 Disney film based on the novel of the same name
The Last Detail, about two
United States Navy policemen who decide to take out a young sailor for one last night on the town (through Boston's
Combat Zone) before he goes to jail
Mystic River, Oscar-winning drama about three childhood friends who later reunite after the murder of one of their daughters; set in a fictional area of Boston called "Buckingham Flats"; filmed in
East Boston and
South Boston
The Paper Chase, about a student struggling through Harvard Law School, based on the 1970 novel;
John Houseman won an Oscar for his role as Professor Kingsfield
Stonados, a
Sci-Fi Channel television movie about Boston being ravaged by a rain of exploding rocks (starting with Plymouth Rock) from a freak meteorological event
What's the Worst That Could Happen?, about a rich man who catches a thief burglarizing his Boston home and steals the thief's lucky ring, which the thief then tries to get back
With Honors (1994), with Brendan Fraser and Joe Pesci, about a Harvard student who loses the only copy of his thesis and traces it to a basement where it has been found by a homeless man who trades pages of the thesis for food and shelter
X2: X-Men United, X-Men sequel, in which two scenes take place in Boston, the home of Bobby Drake, alias Iceman
Yellow Lights, college drama that takes place at
Wellesley College as well as a fictional college set in Newton