![]() ![]() This was, apparently, an unusual move, as most films are based in New York or Los Angeles for cost and convenience. The interior shots, meanwhile, were filmed on sets built at a nearby naval base. "I think it’s 2,000 square feet." (In 2014, a Seattle tech executive reportedly bought the Sleepless in Seattle houseboat for over $2 million.) "We looked at so many floating homes in Seattle and finally ended up in the biggest one there," Townsend says. The exterior shots of Sam’s home were filmed on location at an actual houseboat in the area. It’s literally on water and moves a little bit with the tide." Of course, the eccentric residence also lent the film a sense of whimsy, offering a cinematic spot for a number of shots of Sam gazing wistfully off his deck at the horizon. "I don’t think Jeff Arch would be horrified for me to suggest that there’s something transient-feeling about a floating home. (Townsend notes the houseboat was part of the original screenwriter Jeff Arch’s vision.) "The trajectory was that you have an ostensibly successful architect in Chicago-big market, big skyscrapers, big windows-whose dreams shrink from grief," Townsend says. While the number and size of Seattle’s houseboat colonies has since dwindled, real estate brokerage Prevu estimates that communities on Lake Union and other Seattle waterfronts still have around 500 floating homes and 250 houseboats, some with coveted real estate priced in the millions.įor Jeffrey Townsend, the film’s production designer, a Seattle floating home was the perfect visual representation of Sam’s unmoored state in the start of the film as a grief-stricken widow fleeing the bustle of Chicago. By the late 1930s, Seattle’s houseboat population was said to be around 2,000. In the 1920s, some of Seattle’s wealthy population built houseboats on Lake Washington as fancy summer homes. Tracing back to the late 1880s, sailors, fishermen, loggers, and dockworkers built low-cost floating shacks on the shores of the city’s various bays, lakes, and rivers using rafts and scrap boards. In real life, floating homes are deeply embedded in Seattle’s seaport history. Most of the film’s Seattle scenes take place at Sam and Jonah’s new place of living, a homey, wood-clad houseboat on Lake Union. ![]() When Annie hears Sam reluctantly discussing his grief on a radio show, she feels a profound connection and, against her better judgment, asks him to meet her on top of the Empire State Building on Valentine’s Day. For his age, Malinger's career had gotten off to a very impressive start.The story follows Annie (Ryan), a newly engaged reporter from Baltimore, and Sam (Hanks), a recently widowed architect who moves from Chicago to Seattle with his son Jonah (Ross Malinger) after his wife’s death. He also featured severally in Who's The Boss, a sitcom that aired on ABC around that time. Ross Malinger landed his first ever screen role in 1990, when he appeared as a rowdy kid called Elliott Brody in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. ![]() ![]() His two siblings, Ashley and Tyler Cole Malinger have also worked as actors. His father, Brian, also worked as a film producer, as did his mother, Laura. Nonetheless, creative blood always flowed in the Malinger family. He was born in Redwood City, California in the summer of 1984 to a father who worked as a sales representative. Catapulted To FameĪnother child who found himself catapulted to fame while still relatively young was Ross Malinger. Strong has since disappeared from the world of acting, save for a cameo here and there. Rider Strong became a fan favorite in the '90s for his portrayal of Shawn Hunter in ABC's sitcom, Boy Meets World. Ethan Hawke, Keke Palmer and Scarlett Johansson are all massive stars today who started out as child actors. ![]()
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