"Nora was really insistent on basing the movie in Seattle-and not for any reasons she could defend," says Townsend, who reportedly butted heads with the filmmaker during the project. 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. Illustration by Roger Shankįor 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.
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