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- CreatorSarah DunnStarsKaty Mixon GreerDiedrich BaderDaniel DiMaggioA family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.Westport, CT
- DirectorLuke GreenfieldStarsEmile HirschNicholas DownsElisha CuthbertA teenager's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love.Westport, CT. Apparently the high school is based on Staples.
- DirectorDonald PetrieStarsAnnabeth GishJulia RobertsLili TaylorThree teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.Mystic
- DirectorPeter CornwellStarsVirginia MadsenMartin DonovanElias KoteasAfter a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, and uncover a sinister history.Southington, CT
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsJohnny NashEstelle HemsleyRuby DeeA black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.A town is never said, but the writer grew up in Hartford, ad based on the way the story's told you can tell this is set in Hartford.
- DirectorMark JeanStarsAnne BancroftKimberlee PetersonTrever O'BrienTales of a group of siblings who are forced to fend for themselves when they are abandoned by their mother in the parking lot of a shopping mall. They eventually meet their grandmother, a loner who is reluctant to take them in.Some scenes take place in New Haven and Bridgeport. There's also a scene that's set in a place called Pewauket, that I think is a fake town.
- DirectorVondie Curtis-HallStarsAunjanue Ellis-TaylorKeke PalmerSherri ShepherdA baby abducted at birth and raised by the woman who took her, eventually discovers she is a missing child, reconnects with her birth parents, and struggles with choosing between her two identities.Bridgeport, CT.
- DirectorRaja GosnellStarsDennis QuaidRene RussoJerry O'ConnellA widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widowed handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of his 8 and her 10 children.It's based in New London, CT but they got it all wrong.
- DirectorBrandon David ColeStarsWill JanowitzAdrian MartinezKevin A. DrainvilleThe true story about the rise and fall of a group of suburban marijuana dealers from Bristol, Connecticut who were arrested by the State Police and DEA in 2001.Bristol
- DirectorMelanie MayronStarsSchuyler FiskBre BlairRachael Leigh CookSeven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
- CreatorRachel ShukertStarsSophie GraceMomona TamadaShay RudolphBased on the book series of the same name focusing on a group of young girls who start their own babysitting service.
- StarsMeghan AndrewsMelissa ChasseAvriel HillmanBased on the popular series of children's books, this show follows the ups and downs of a young teen business club for babysitters.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsStefanie PowersPaul ClemensTom AtkinsWhen a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.
- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsBarbara StanwyckDennis MorganSydney GreenstreetA food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
- DirectorArnold SchwarzeneggerStarsDyan CannonKris KristoffersonTony CurtisElizabeth, the star of a successful cooking show, is set to do a live show on Christmas, where she'll cook a Christmas dinner. But what no one knows is that she can't cook.
- DirectorEd BianchiStarsJohn StamosRobin TunneyAnson MountDrama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have everything: beautiful wives who love them, great jobs and huge houses. But beneath the surface lie resentments and secrets that will eventually be their horrible undoing.
- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsDrew BarrymoreSteve ZahnAdam GarciaA single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
- DirectorFrank OzStarsNicole KidmanBette MidlerMatthew BroderickThe secret to a Stepford wife lies behind the doors of the Men's Association.
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsKatharine RossPaula PrentissPeter MastersonJoanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
- DirectorGilbert CatesStarsBill CosbyGloria FosterDennis HinesAn airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsSylvester StalloneTalia ShireBurt YoungA small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.