Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox) works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend (Kiefer Sutherland), he's on the verge of getting fired. His wife, a fast-rising model (Phoebe Cates), just left him; he's still reeling from the death of his mother (Dianne Wiest) a year earlier; and he's obsessed with a tabloid story about a pregnant woman in a coma. Bright Lights, Big City doesn't have much of a plot, but in its meandering way it captures some of the glossy chaos of the time and of a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life.

East 14th Street (btw 3rd Avenue and Irving Place) Manhattan.

Saks Department Store, 5th Avenue and East 50th Street, Manhattan.

West 4th Street (btw Christopher Street and West 10th Street) Manhattan.

Bryant Park, 6th Avenue and West 42nd Street, Manhattan.

Charles Street and Waverly Place, Manhattan.

Subway, 7th Avenue South and Christopher Street, Manhattan.

Jamie's Apartment, 24 Charles Street and Waverly Place, Manhattan.

2 Staple Street (btw Jay Street and Harrison Street) Manhattan.

Laight Street and Greenwich Street, Manhattan.

otsoNY Comments: This entire area of New York has been completed redeveloped in 2013, and the original building at 77 Laight Street was upgraded with the loading bay being removed.

77 Laight Street and Washington Street, Manhattan.

otsoNY Comments: This is another area of New York that has seen a lot of redevelopment over the years and now looks nothing like it did in the late 1980s.

Pier 57 (btw West 13th and 16th Streets) Manhattan.