Going Hollywood: 5 movies and TV shows filmed in the Fayetteville area

While several documentaries have been filmed in Fayetteville, a few movies and TV shows have also brought Hollywood stars to the area.

Here are five movies or films that were at least partially filmed in the Fayetteville area, according to the online Internet Movie Database.

'Billy Bathgate'

“Billy Bathgate” is a 1991 New York gangster film starring Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci.

According to Fayetteville Observer archives, many local residents were cast as extras during February 1991 filming in the old Cumberland County Court House on Gillespie Street of Hoffman’s character being on trial for tax evasion

Former Fayetteville Observer reporter Mac Barnes portrayed one of the reporters reacting to the verdict, while Cumberland County Sheriff's Department bailiff J.C. O'Connor guarded the press gallery, deputy Leroy Park was another extra and court stenographer Dewey Melton recorded the proceedings, according to reports.

'8 mm'

The 1999 film “8 mm” starred Nicholas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix and James Gandolfini and had scenes filmed in Fayetteville, according to IMDB.

Cage’s character is a private investigator who is hired by a widow who finds an 8-millimeter film in a safe that appears to show a murder of a girl.

He tracks down the girl’s mother in North Carolina and continues his investigation into Hollywood’s underground film industry.

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'Cutaway'

The 2000 movie “Cutaway” starred Tom Berenger, Stephen Baldwin and Dennis Rodman and was filmed on Fort Bragg. Baldwin plays a drug enforcement agent who goes undercover on a skydiving team after suspecting that drugs are being smuggled on aircraft and dropped by parachutes.

Baldwin’s character receives skydiving tips from the leader of an Army team and later becomes part of a team in the midst of the drug investigation and competes against the Army team at a national skydiving championship.

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'Undercover Boss'

In February 2013, the CBS reality series “Undercover Boss” featured the Boston Market on Skibo Road.

The Emmy Award-winning reality series follows corporate executives as they anonymously work at their own companies before revealing their identities.

According to CBS, Sara Bittorf, chief brand officer for Boston Market, visited the Fayetteville location and other restaurants to be a cashier, drive-thru attendant and meat carver.

The Fayetteville restaurant’s then-assistant manager, April Hubbard, thought she was taking part in a video documenting the training of a new Boston Market employee.

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'The Girls Next Door'

A September 2005 episode of the E! reality series “The Girls Next Door” featured a visit to Fort Bragg.

The series featured Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends.

According to IMDB, Hefner’s girlfriend Bridget Marquardt visited her brother Eddie, who was stationed at Fort Bragg, during the episode.

“They meet at a restaurant where Bridget gives Eddie a care package before he is sent to do another tour in Iraq,” the site states.

According to Marquardt’s “Ghost Magnet Podcast” website, her brother, Eddie Sandmeier, was a mortuary affairs specialist and airborne infantryman who deployed four times to the Middle East and was part of the 2nd Battalion Task Force, 82nd Airborne Division that helped provide security and relief to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Sandmeier’s website states he is now a licensed funeral director in Michigan and also makes memorial casts and masks.

Staff writer Rachael Riley can be reached at rriley@fayobserver.com or 910-486-3528.

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