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Pacific Northwest in Cinema & Television
The Pacific Northwest has attracted the film and TV industries with low production
costs, artistic talent and a range of gorgeous backdrops. However, many films produced
in the region are set somewhere else: Oregon's Cascades doubled as the Colorado Rock-
ies in The Shining (Mt Hood's Timberline Lodge had a cameo as the Overlook Hotel's
front exterior); Roslyn, WA, stood in as Alaska in the TV series Northern Exposure ; and
the Vancouver area has represented everything from Tibet in Martin Scorsese's Kundun
to New York City in Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx .
But the Northwest often appears as itself in motion pictures, too. Seattle's skyline and
quirky lifestyles are recognizable internationally, thanks to such productions as Sleepless
in Seattle (1993) and the hit TV shows Frasier (1993-2004) and Grey's Anatomy
(2005-). The cult TV series Twin Peaks (1990) was filmed in North Bend and
Snoqualmie. Some of many movies filmed in Washington include An Officer and a Gen-
tleman (1982), The Hunt for Red October (1990), My Own Private Idaho (1991) and The
Ring (2002). The blockbuster Twilight movie series (2008-2012) was partly or mostly
(depending on the movie) filmed in Washington, Oregon and Vancouver.
Oregon has an equally lively resume of movie credits that include One Flew over the
Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Animal House (1978), The Goonies (1985), Stand by Me (1986),
Point Break (1991) and The Road (2009). Portland often serves as a menacing backdrop
for the brooding films of resident filmmaker Gus Van Sant, whose resumé includes
Drugstore Cowboy (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991) and Elephant (2003), all
filmed in the Pacific Northwest. Portland-born Matt Groening created the hit cartoon
show The Simpsons (1989-), which has many references to Portland's streets. TV series
currently filming in Portland include Portlandia (2011-) and Grimm (2011-).