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wordweaverlynn found an interesting one: a list of movies associated with each of the U.S. states. She invited substitution and commentary, and taking just those films from the original list that I've seen and adding some others of my own, here's my partial:

Alaska = Insomnia
Arizona = Raising Arizona
California = for a real Bay Area flavor, how about Vertigo? (and why aren't there more movies that old on this list?); for the southland, the truest L.A. movie of many is L.A. Story, and for both halves of California, north and south, in one movie = The Graduate
Colorado = Silver City (John Sayles, yes!)
Connecticut = Amistad (a stretch geographically, I know)
Florida = Sunshine State (in fact, give Sayles enough time, and he may cover the whole map by himself)
Idaho = Napoleon Dynamite (one of the most pointless movies I ever did see, but no question, it's about Idaho, all right)
Illinois = Chicago
Indiana = Breaking Away
Iowa = Field of Dreams (another nimnul film with good local color, insofar as Iowa has any)
Kansas = The Wizard of Oz (a sorry excuse for a film about Kansas, but the inevitable choice)
Louisiana = The Princess and the Frog
Maine = Carousel (see, old movies)
Massachusetts = Good Will Hunting
Michigan = Roger and Me
Minnesota = Fargo (never mind the title, it's Minnesota)
Montana = A River Runs Through It
Nevada = Bad Day at Black Rock (more old movies ... see, oooolllldd movies)
New Hampshire = The Return of the Secaucus Seven (continuing an occasional theme of movies that don't take place where the titles allude to)
New Jersey = Clerks
New Mexico = Fat Man and Little Boy
New York = Across the Universe for the city, Frozen River for the state
North Carolina = Bull Durham
Oregon = Kindergarten Cop (one more dumb movie with good local color)
Pennsylvania = Witness (for the east) and Groundhog Day (for the west)
South Carolina = The Big Chill
South Dakota = Dances with Wolves
Texas = Lone Star (see? Sayles!)
Washington = Snow Falling on Cedars (make it a little more quirky, and it could have been John Sayles's Washington state film. Do not, repeat not name "Sleepless in Seattle": fake, fake, fake)
West Virginia = October Sky Rocket Boys (the original list put the book title instead of the movie title, and neither Lynn nor I nor any of her commenters picked up on it, but someone else did)
Wyoming = Brokeback Mountain