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Tennessee

Cast Away (2000)

While the scenes of Tom Hanks stranded on an island were filmed in Fiji, he was welcomed back to the U.S. at the FedEx headquarters on-site in Memphis. Oddly enough, despite excessive FedEx advertising, the brand didn't have to pay a cent for product placement in the film.

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