Although 2020 didn t exactly make a lot of people swoon, the past 12 months did feature a few notable films of love and whimsy, of laughter and sweetness, of hope
Why is a city famously bad for dating most associated with romance movies?
Illustration by MUTI.
Letâs call 1989 the inflection point. Before then Seattle was the sticks. A little backwater. A little rough. Our founding cinematic couple were burly, long-married tugboat ownersâplayed by Wallace Beery and Marie Dresslerâin 1933âs
Tugboat Annie. This was a region of gold-panning, timber, serial killers, airplanes. Of course we had more going on than that, but in Hollywoodâs imagining this was the province mostly of desperate crime films. If there was a romanceâ
Cinderella Liberty (1973),
Then, in 1989, the loving starts. We get
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