The residences in romantic comedies – from Carrie Bradshaw’s Upper East Side apartment to the Charleston house with blue shutters in The Notebook – can be as attractive and as crush-able as the main characters themselves.
But perhaps the best part? These homes often actually exist in the real-world (unlike Sleepless in Seattle’s Sam Baldwin). Here, thanks to research from ForRent. com, we’re sharing the most fabulous ones, with the website’s estimated amounts of what it would cost to rent them today.
Sex and the City: Carrie Bradshaw – played by Sarah Jessica Parker on both the television show and in the movies – has a one-bedroom studio where she writes her iconic column at New York’s East 73rd Street on the Upper East Side.
But, the exteriors that were featured in these films (as well as in the Ghostbuster comedies) were actually at New York’s 66 Perry Street in the West Village: a four-floor brownstone with ten rooms that, in 2012, sold for $9. 85 million. The penthouse that Carrie and Mr. Big (Christ Noth) invest in – and, then, sell – was shot in a four-floor house on New York’s East 62nd Street: a Spanish-style residence that rents for $190,000 a month.
Sleepless in Seattle: The 2,200-square-foot houseboat that Sam Baldwin – played by Tom Hanks – inhabits with his son in 1993 was docked at Westlake Avenue North on Seattle’s Lake Union. It features four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The water residence, which was sold in 2014 for $2 million, costs about $9,500 per month.
Lake Point Tower in Chicago.
While You Were Sleeping: Lucy Moderatz – Sandra Bullock – is crammed into a second-floor unit, which was filmed on Chicago’s West Logan Boulevard in 1995. Her home would cost about $1,195 per month today. Lucy’s accommodations are a contrast to those of one of her romantic interests, Peter Callaghan played by Peter Gallagher, who resides in the luxe, 70-floor “Lake Point Tower” on Chicago’s North Lake Shore Drive (which can also be seen in Meet the Parents and The Lake House). His home would cost about $2,800 per month.
The Notebook: The 1940s romance between Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) is centered around the water-front house with blue shutters – which was filmed on Martins Point Road in Charleston’s Wadmalaw Island. Constructed in 1772, it rents for about $12,000 per month.
When Harry Met Sally: The loft-like unit that Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) inhabits is situated at New York’s 57 East 11th Street. The 11-floor residence (which was constructed in 1903) was, once, a sewing-machine factory. This particular unit is no longer available (similar units would cost more than they did in the 1980s, going for about or higher than $3,800 per month); last time it was on the market, however, the entire 57,585 square-foot building was renting as a whole, for $22,5000 per month (it sold in 2014 for $22,500,000).
