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Who can forget the beautiful and sad, like Tom Hanks' Sam Baldwin surviving widow if he and his young son in a houseboat, the elegant charm of Lake Union Seattle, in 1993 blockbuster chick flick, "Sleepless in Seattle" is moved . I remember standing on the deck, his elbow on the railing to watch the stars and city lights on water? bittersweet perfection.

Recently, the beneficiary of the famous floating residence have placed on the market. AsWould you pay to own a legendary houseboat? The selling price of $ 2,500,000 is fresh. You may need some time to think about it!

Barges and Hollywood

Barges were the parameters of many memorable films in Hollywood. the provision of "Sleepless in Seattle" houseboat is the perfect setting for Sam Baldwin, mourn the loss of his wife in mind and start a new life. Although Sam Baldwin and Annie Reed romantic co-star, played by Meg Ryan, were not togetheruntil the final two minutes of this film, the audience always knew I would be happy in this life beautiful houseboat.

Fifteen years after the movie opened, the boat becomes a major tourist attraction in Seattle.

The countess and a houseboat

Another famous movie, a houseboat is actually "boat house" called. The 1958 film starring Cary Grant as the romantic lead Tom Winters, a divorced father of three children, and the beautifulCynthia naive Zacardi Sophia Loren. Even if the argument is a bit 'absurd and Loren Grant made a romantic comedy and welcoming.

Cynthia missing a countess, her lifestyle too protective and gets a job to care for children three winters. If the house is destroyed, all are bound, living in the river on a barge in the Potomac in ruins. Funny and charming in the winter, fall in love with her housekeeper and the mysterious beautifulBuilt in Hollywood happy ending of the film. Funny and adorable "boat house" was a blockbuster and was nominated for two Oscars.

From Romanticism to the pure terror

Long before "Sleepless in Seattle" was the legendary 1962 film "Cape Fear" with Robert Mitchum as Max Cady is a criminal and Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden, the attorney who sentenced him.

Cady is released from prison bent on revenge against Bowden andFamily. In a deadly game of cat and mouse, Cady stalks and threatens the Bowden family, until he left the city and flee to the safety of ships in the river. You do not know that Cady was hitchhiking to get into his car.

"Cape Fear" is based on a thrilling climax, when Cady sneaks aboard the ship and attacks the whole family in a scene so horrible that Bravo # 36 placing in the top 100 scariest scenes in the history of Latin American cinema .

Althoughplots of the three films have nothing in common, they share the fact that a house boat in the correct attitude, the mood the director wanted to create. Houseboats, because Hollywood has been shown to make adjustments for the dramas of life and extraordinary transitions in and out of the screen.

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