“The Fat Spy” was one of Mansfield’s last roles. She would die in a car crash in 1967.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 23%

Sample review: “As a film reviewer, I get to see an awful lot of movies — not to mention a lot of awful movies. However, every now and then, it is possible to come across a film that goes beyond just being bad. … The 1966 feature ‘The Fat Spy’ falls into that unique category.” — Phil Hall, Film Threat

Read more: ‘The Fat Spy’ and the year Hollywood came to Southwest Florida

‘OUT OF TIME’ (Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes and Sanaa Lathan)

The film: In this crime thriller, the police chief (Denzel Washington) of fictional Florida town Banyan Key begins an affair with a married woman who says she has terminal cancer. To pay for her treatment, he steals money confiscated in a drug bust. But then the woman and her abusive husband die in a suspicious fire, the money disappears and the chief is the prime suspect.

Year released: 2003

Director: Carl Franklin

Production: Multiple Florida locations were used to create the fictional town of Banyan Key, including Boca Grande. The opening five minutes of the film were shot in downtown Boca, where dozens of local extras showed up for filming in 2002. 

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 64%

Sample review: “It’s all very ‘Body Heat,’ which is to say, we’ve seen it all before. … ‘Out of Time’ (is) a well-performed, perfectly watchable thriller that’s nonetheless as generic as its title.” — Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times

‘HOOT’ (starring Luke Wilson, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson and Logan Lerman)

The film: A group of kids try to save a burrowing-owl habitat from bad-guy developers building a pancake restaurant. The comedy is based on Carl Hiaasen’s novel of the same name. It’s set in Coconut Cove, a fictional town based on Cape Coral — a city famous for its burrowing owls.

Year released: 2006

Director: Wil Shriner

Production: “Hoot” was filmed mainly on Florida’s east coast, including Fort Lauderdale, but parts were shot in Lee County’s Boca Grande and Gasparilla Island.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 26%

Sample review: “While the novel is drenched in Hiaasen’s wit, sense of adventure and aggressive environmentalism, the film emerges as a vanilla comedy, only slightly more interesting than most.” — Toddy Burton, The Austin Chronicle

‘DAY OF THE DEAD’ (starring Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato and Jarlath Conroy)

The film: With this horror classic, director George A. Romero completed the zombie trilogy that started with 1968’s “Night of the Living Dead.” The story follows a group of scientists and soldiers hiding in a Florida bunker as they try to solve the zombie outbreak that’s taken over the world above.

Year released: 1985

Director: George A. Romero

Production: Most of the underground filming took place in a limestone mine in Wampum, Pennsylvania. But above-ground scenes were shot in downtown Fort Myers, and the bunker’s elevator-platform entrance was built in a Sanibel Island field.

Downtown Fort Myers doubled as the city of the dead. The movie’s opening scene sees local extras, dressed as zombies, pouring out of Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center and shambling along the River District’s streets.

That scene helped inspire the now defunct Zombicon festival, where people dressed up as zombies every year and recreated the scene for the annual “zombie walk.” The festival ended after a fatal shooting in 2015.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 81%

Sample review: “It’s an intelligent, well-written, excellently played movie, with top flight gore/horror effects, perverse humor and a provocatively bleak vision. … An inventive gore-fest, and one of the best horror movies of the eighties.” — Kim Newman, Empire

‘SWEET HOME ALABAMA’ (starring Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Fred Ward, Dakota Fanning and Thomas Curtis)

The film: Romantic comedy about a New York fashion designer (Reese Witherspoon) who returns to Alabama to get a divorce after six years of separation.

Year released: 2002

Director: Andy Tennant

Production: Some scenes were shot at South Seas Island Resort and its nearby beach. The filming involved actors Dakota Fanning, 7, and Thomas Curtis, 9, kissing and playing younger versions of Reese Witherspoon and Josh Lucas. Another scene shows Witherspoon and Lucas also kissing.

The scenes were originally supposed to be shot in Georgia, but the weather was too cold there. Most of the film was shot in New York and Georgia.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 38%

Sample review: “With its overlong running time and egregiously sluggish pace, ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ comes off as a sporadically amusing yet entirely ineffective romantic comedy that ultimately squanders an expectedly charismatic turn from star Reese Witherspoon.” — Dave Nusair, Reel Film Reviews