With so many films either set or filmed in Colorado, what one film is the highest rated movie set in our great state? Here are just some of the memorable movies that are based in Colorado, Crazy Heart, Dumb and Dumber, City Slickers, Cliffhanger, Blades of Glory, Beerfest, Aspen Extreme, Jack Frost, Misery, Phantoms, WarGames... just to name a few. So what movie set in Colorado is the highest ranked movie on IMDB? Well, it's the movie based in Estes Park that has given so many people nightmares... The Shining, pulling in an impressive 8.5 our of 10 stars. The 1980 psychological horror film, staring Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvaul, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. The lowest scoring movie set in Colorado, may just be the John Travolta Sy-Fy stinker Battlefield Earth, getting only 2.4 our of 10 stars.

So, that's Colorado... now here are the top rated movie for the rest of our states according to IMDB.

Alabama – To Kill a Mockingbird

Alaska – The Gold Rush

Arizona – Psycho

Arkansas – Slingblade

California – Pulp Fiction

Connecticut – Bringing Up Baby

Delaware – Fight Club

Florida – Scarface

Georgia – Gone with the Wind

Hawaii – Tora! Tora! Tora!

Idaho – My Own Private Idaho

Illinois – The Sting

Indiana – A Christmas Story

Iowa – The Straight Story

Kansas – In Cold Blood

Kentucky – The Insider

Louisiana – The Green Mile

Maine – The Shawshank Redemption

Maryland – The Silence of the Lambs

Massachusetts – The Departed

Michigan – Gran Torino

Minnesota – Fargo

Mississippi – Django Unchained

Missouri – Paper Moon

Montana – Lonesome Dove

Nebraska – Nebraska

Nevada – Casino

New Hampshire – Lolita

New Jersey – On The Waterfront

New Mexico – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

New York – The Godfather

North Carolina – George Washington

North Dakota – Jesus Camp

Ohio – Rain Man

Oklahoma – True Grit

Oregon – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Pennsylvania – The Deer Hunter

Rhode Island – Hachi: A Dog’s Tale

South Carolina – Full Metal Jacket

South Dakota – Badlands

Tennessee – Inherit the Wind

Texas – For a Few Dollars More

Utah – 127 Hours

Vermont – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Virginia – Donnie Darko

Washington – 50/50

West Virginia – The Night of the Hunter

Wisconsin – Stroszek

Wyoming – Unforgiven

 

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