Movies Filmed in Port Townsend

The Ring - thriller (1998)
Dreamworks aquires remake rights to The Ring after a Fine Line deal failed to materialize. Ehren Kruger, who wrote the script to the Tim Robbins vehicle Arlington Road, has signed on to pen the screenplay, with Gore Verbinski (The Mexican) directing and veteran gore artist Rick Baker providing the corpses. The story revolves around a reporter investigating the latest urban myth-- a videotape that kills whomever watches it. Now with only a week left before her own life runs out, this reporter must solve the riddle of the videotape and break its deadly curse.

800 locals signed up as extras when casting agents were in town during the fall of 2001 (15 locals were chosen). Filming began November 7th at Fort Worden State Park and continued in early December near the Quincy Street dock.

Enough - drama/thriller (2002)
Jennifer Lopez (J. Lo) and Billy Campbell came to town to film this Columbia Pictures production. Locals were cast as extras and Port Townsend streets filled with crews and Hollywood glitz for a week of filming during the summer of 2001.

An Officer and a Gentleman - drama/love story (1982)
A favorite with Debra Winger and Richard Gere in a military love story. This romantic classic was filmed at Fort Worden, the Tides Inn, the Town Tavern (now Water St. Brew Pub), Port Townsend Paper Mill and various other Port Townsend locations and on Whidbey Island.

Practical Magic (1998)
Based on the novel 'Practical Magic' by Alice Hoffman. Much of the movie was filmed on San Juan Island and the main town on "Maria's Island" (home to the Owens women) was portrayed by Coupeville on Whidbey Island. The film stars Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing and Sandra Bullock in a delightful tale of two sisters with a bewitching background. San Juan Island residents were extras in the movie, and the house, cabin and set were built at San Juan County Park and land nearby. Filmmakers shopped at the PT Antique Mall for bottles and knick-knacks to use as props for the movie.

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Beautiful snowy and haunting scenes in this film starring Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow and Rick Yune, with some of the scenes filmed near the old ferry landing in downtown Port Townsend next to the old cannery building at Quincy Dock. They transformed the entire Quincy Street area by removing all the power and telephone lines and then replaced it all!

Years of the Beast (1981)
Christian "end time" rapture filmed in PT. See the Sarah Rush Fan Club.