Potomac Rriver

Who can forget how beautiful and sad, Tom Hanks looked as grieving widower Sam Baldwin, when he moved with his young son, a sleek houseboat on beautiful Lake Union in Seattle, the 1993 blockbuster chick flick, "Sleepless in Seattle". Remember him on the deck of the houseboat, his elbows on the railing and watched the stars, dance like the lights of the city on the water? Bitter-sweet perfection.

Recently, the real owners of the famous floating residence have brought it to market. How muchThey would have to pay a legendary houseboat? The offer price is a cool 2.5 million U.S. dollars. You may need some time to think about it!

Houseboats and Hollywood

Houseboats have been the settings for some of Hollywood's most memorable movies. In "Sleepless in Seattle", provided that the houseboat is the perfect setting for Sam Baldwin to look mourn the loss of his wife, life and start over. Even if Sam Baldwin and romantic co-star Annie Reed, played by Meg Ryan, not togetheruntil the last two minutes of the film, the audience always knew that they would live happily ever after in this beautiful houseboat.

Fifteen years after the film debuted, the houseboat is a top Seattle tourist attraction.

The countess and a houseboat

Another famous movie that was actually a houseboat "featured houseboat. The 1958 film stars Cary Grant as the romantic lead Tom Winters, divorced father of three children, and the beautiful ingénueSophia Loren as Cinzia Zacardi. Even if the plot was a bit absurd, Grant and Loren was a warm, romantic comedy.

Cinzi who escapes really a countess, her overly protective lifestyle and get a job take care of Winters' three children. If your house is destroyed, they are all forced to live on a dilapidated houseboat on the Potomac River. Funny and endearing, sometimes in the winter of love with his beautiful, mysterious housekeeper, and the film builds to a happy fallHollywood ending. Funny and endearing, "barge" was a huge box office hit and was nominated for two Oscars.

Romance Of Sheer Terror

Long before "Sleepless in Seattle", it was the legendary 1962-thriller "Cape Fear", the convicted criminal Robert Mitchum as Max Cady and Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden, the prosecutor, who was favorite.

Released from prison, Cady is bent on revenge against Bowden and his family. In a fatalCat and mouse game, Cady stalks and threatens Bowden family until they leave the city and flee to the safety of their river barge. You do not know that Cady has easily hiked to ride a ride in the car.

"Cape Fear" builds to a climax palpitations when Cady sneaks aboard the houseboat and takes up the entire family in a scene so frightening that the Bravo channel, it ranked # 36 in its list of top 100 scariest scenes in the American film history.

Although the plots of these threeFilms have nothing in common, they share the fact that a houseboat create the right setting to the mood the director wanted to create. Houseboats, as Hollywood has been making extraordinary settings for dramas of life, and transitions on and off the screen.

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