For instance, 8 Mile (2002) was shot in Detroit (the 313), and Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) had scenes shot in Somers Point, New Jersey (Tony Mart's).
So much so that you're left to wonder - as the oh-so-self-aware characters in the film do at length - how it hasn't been done before (sadly, no one ever remembers 1980's similarly-themed John Ritter movie "Hero at Large").