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tutionalized for years and eventually lobotomized), was shot here in 1981. Debra
Winger's hit
Black Widow
(1986) shows many scenes shot at the University of Wash-
ington.
John Cusack starred in
Say Anything
(1989), Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Bridges lit up
the screen in
The Fabulous Baker Boys
(1989), and Sly Stallone and Antonio Banderas
flopped in
Assassins
(1995), all partly filmed in and around Seattle. Horror hit
The Ring
and JLo vehicle
Enough
both had a few scenes shot in Seattle and on local ferries.
The two most famous (until recently) Seattle movies happened when the city was at
the peak of its cultural cachet in the ΚΌ90s:
Singles
(1992), with Campbell Scott, Kyra
Sedgwick, Matt Dillon and Bridget Fonda, captured the city's youthful-slacker vibe.
(Incidentally, both
Singles
and
Say Anything
were directed by Cameron Crowe, who is
married to Nancy Wilson from Seattle rock band Heart.) And then there was
Sleepless
in Seattle,
the 1993 blockbuster starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and, perhaps more im-
portantly, Seattle's Lake Union houseboats. As a Seattle-based film phenomenon,
however, nothing tops the tween-vampire soap opera
Twilight
and its sequels, set in the
town of Forks, WA.
TV's
Northern Exposure,
filmed in nearby Roslyn, WA, and
Frasier
both did a lot to
boost Seattle's reputation as a hip and youthful place to live. The creepy, darker side of
the Northwest was captured in the moody
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
And let's
not forget ABC's phenomenally popular hospital drama,
Grey's Anatomy
.
