Baltimore in fiction

* Baltimore is referenced several times in the 1993 Lucasarts game "Day of the Tentacle".
* In the 1997 film "As Good As It Gets", the character of Melvin Udall (played by Jack Nicholson) gives his "queer neighbor" Simon (played by Greg Kinnear) a lift to Baltimore.
* The "Seinfeld" character Elaine Benes is a native of Baltimore County.
* Thomas Harris' Dr. Hannibal Lecter operated a psychiatric practice in Baltimore before his confinement.
* Baltimore is the setting for the police procedural books and series based on the work of author and former police reporter David Simon, "" and "The Wire". In addition, Simon's reality-based book and TV miniseries on drug dealers, "The Corner", is set in Baltimore.
* "Homicide" executive producer Barry Levinson is a native of Baltimore, and he set his films "Diner", "Tin Men", "Avalon", and "Liberty Heights" in the city.
* A significant portion of the Terry Gilliam science fiction thriller "Twelve Monkeys" takes place in Baltimore.
* Several episodes of "The X-Files" were set in Baltimore.
* Baltimore native Tom Clancy, a graduate of Loyola Blakefield and Loyola College in Maryland, often includes Baltimore and other parts of Maryland in his action/spy thriller novels and their corresponding feature films. In the film "The Sum of All Fears", based on the Clancy novel of the same name, Baltimore is devastated by a terrorist nuclear bomb. In the book, however, the attack takes place in Denver.
* Maryland native Nora Roberts also uses Maryland and particularly parts of the Chesapeake Bay as settings for her novels. This includes Baltimore in such novels as "Inner Harbor".
* Anne Tyler lived in Baltimore for many years, and many of her books are set there, including "The Accidental Tourist", which was also made into a movie.
* Becky Anderson's novel "In Stereo Where Available" is partially set in Baltimore, including scenes set in the National Aquarium in Baltimore and a club resembling the now-closed Baja Beach Club.
* Ronald Damien Malfi's novel "The Nature of Monsters" is the first of a loosely-based Baltimore trilogy.
* John Waters' films are all set in Baltimore, and they have all premiered at the historic Senator Theatre.
* Steve Guttenberg appeared in The Bedroom Window in 1987. The exterior view of the bedroom window was done from a parking lot on Eager Street. The interior views showed that the windows overlooked the Mt. Vernon park and monument, nearly 2 blocks away.
* Steve Guttenberg appeared in a Barry Levinson movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083833/plotsummary Diner] , filmed in Baltimore.
* Laura Lippman is the author of detective fiction set in Baltimore, most notably the Tess Monaghan novels.
*The show "One on One" is set in Baltimore until Breanna moves to Los Angeles for college in season 5 (2005-2006).
* "Roc" was an American sitcom set in Baltimore.
* The action-horror video game is set in Baltimore.
* The film "Ladder 49", starring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix, is set in Baltimore.
* The musical "Hairspray" and its 2007 film adaptation are set in 1960s Baltimore and feature the song "Good Morning Baltimore".
* The film "Enemy of the State", starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman, had a significant portion set and filmed in Baltimore.
* The film "Live Free or Die Hard", starring Bruce Willis was filmed in downtown Baltimore.
* The film "...And Justice for All (film)", starring Al Pacino is set in Baltimore.
* The fictional character, Jane Porter, Tarzan's love interest, is a native of Baltimore and the last part of the first Tarzan novel, "Tarzan of the Apes", is set there.
* The Kevin Bacon film "He Said, She Said" was filmed and set in Baltimore. The main characters begin as writers for the Baltimore Sun.
* Meg Ryan's character in "Sleepless in Seattle", Annie Reed, works for the "Baltimore Sun" and some of the scenes are shot at the paper's offices on North Calvert Street.
* "". The Capitol Cars that is supposed to be South DC is the Abandoned American Brewery from N. Gay St. Other scenes that are reported to be in DC area also filmed in Baltimore.
* In the 1922 short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", the titular character is born in Baltimore.
* Tim Cockey's mystery novel series, starring the character Hitchcock Sewell, is based in Baltimore
* Both "Step Up" and its sequel "Step Up 2 the Streets" are set in Baltimore.
* The 2008 film "First Sunday" starring Katt Williams, Ice Cube, and Tracy Morgan is filmed and set in the City of Baltimore.
* In Season 7 of "", Mike Keppler, Grissom's temporary replacement, touches a dead body, to which Catherine Willows says, "Is that how they do it in Baltimore?"
*In season two of "House" an episode took place in Baltimore
* Baltimore is known as an Internet Phenomenon based on a vulgar commercial of Big Bill Hell's cars, with the beginning statement, "Fuck you Baltimore!"
* In the Alfred Hitchcock film "Marnie", the title character is from Baltimore and consequently a portion of the film is set in Baltimore.