Film and TV Locations « Back to List Get Directions Calculate Trip Fighting Mad (1975) 645 W Martin Luther King Blvd. Fayetteville, AR 72701 Description Fighting Mad, a movie starring Peter Fonda, Gino Franco, Lynn Lowry and Scott Glenn, and directed by Jonathan Demme, was filmed in and around Fayetteville. The plot concerns an Arkansas farmer who stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers trying to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments. According to the Fayetteville History Facebook page, third-graders from Washington Elementary served as extras for the scene where a school bus crashes into an autumn pumpkin display. Many of the scenes were filmed in the community of Wyman, located just east of Fayetteville. A notable landmark in the move is Brenda’s Bigger Burgers, a popular hangout near Fayetteville High School, located at 645 West Martin Luther King Blvd. Source: Fayetteville History Internet Movie Database Directions: Fayetteville is located 192 miles northwest of Little Rock via I-40 and I-540 or (-40 and U.S. Scenic 71. Trivia: Demme would go on to win the 1991 Best Director Academy Award for Silence of the Lambs.
