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How to rekindle a 1940's romance movie vibe for modern filmgoers? Remind them that some of their strongest movie experiences were spent watching shows like Miracle in the Rain, Now, Voyager and Penny Serenade. Sleepless channels and reconfigures the delirious Love-Is-Magic fantasy of 1957's An Affair to Remember, and then proceeds to analyze the entire Kleenex Matinee genre. The movie's basic mission is to apply the reflexive self-awareness of movie lore - a focus that was central to the film-school generation a couple of decades before - in service of the Chick Flick. Ephron's second directed film Sleepless in Seattle became a major hit. Just four years ago she made one of her best, Julia & Julia.īack in 1993 Ms. Ephron began by writing the dead serious Silkwood and advanced to the surprise hit When Harry Met Sally., a romantic comedy with a facility for fresh, spicy dialogue. Her film career bloomed after some very solid accomplishments in journalism, and the movies she wrote and directed were uncommonly witty and civilized. Nora Ephron died almost exactly a year ago today. Written by Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, David S.
Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Bill Pullman, Rosie O'Donnell, Rita Wilson, Victor Garber, Carey Lowell, David Hyde Pierce, Frances Conroy, Caroline Aaron, Tom McGowan, Rob Reiner, Barbara Garrick. Street Date J/ available through Screen Archives Entertainment / 29.95 Visit my Houses Onscreen page to see more I’ve featured, listed from A-Z.1993 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 105 min. It reportedly sold for more than $2 million.įor listing photos and information about the “Sleepless in Seattle” houseboat, read the article in the Puget Sound Business Journal. “The houseboat, which is located at the end of a story-book dock with a flower-lined entry off of Westlake Avenue North in Lake Union, is one of the most iconic properties in Seattle.” – Puget Sound Business Journal With more than 2,000 square feet, it’s the largest floating home on Lake Union. Thanks to that listing, we know it was built in 1978 and has 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. The houseboat used for the film went on the market in 2014 Second choice? Kim Basinger, who said the premise was “too ridiculous.” The role of Annie Reed was originally offered to Julia Roberts, who turned it down. Jonah doesn’t like his dad’s new girlfriend (or her laugh) and wants his dad to meet Annie instead. Even though this scene where he and Suzy’s husband Greg (Victor Garber) pretend to cry over the plot in The Dirty Dozen was totally improvised, it proved to be one of the most memorable. Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks’ real-life wife, played his sister Suzy in the movie. I guess women like to fantasize about having a man who could design their dream home for them! 🙂
Sam is an architect, which is one of the most popular “movie careers” for men in romantic movies. Sam (Hanks) is a widower with an 8-year old son named Jonah, who’s determined to find him a new wife. The movie was written and directed by Nora Ephron, who has a knack for bringing beautiful houses to the big screen, like Bewitchedand You’ve Got Mail.Įphron was inspired by An Affair to Remember, the classic tear-jerker starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Still, Seattle boasts one of the country’s largest houseboat communities. The houseboat population peaked in the 1930s, at about 2,000, but has since dropped to around 500.
Houseboats have been common here since the 1890s, when fishermen and dock workers in Elliott Bay built homes on rafts.ĭuring the Depression, low-income laborers took advantage of the geography and built or moved into tax-free houseboats. Okay, so the houses aren’t really boats because they never leave the dock, and they’re technically called floating homes, but that just doesn’t have the same ring as a houseboat, does it? The Houseboat from “Sleepless in Seattle” The real houseboat from the classic Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle went on the market recently, so I thought it would be fun to revisit it and the sets that were designed for the movie.
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