Daphne Tomchak was living a quiet life in the residential neighborhood of Montlake in Seattle, WA. The unemployed architect was pleasantly surprised this spring when she received a knock on her front door offering her an opportunity to ”hitch her wagon to a star” - a Hollywood star, that is.

Producers of a new film titled “The Details” wanted to use Tomchak’s 1914 house as the setting for their movie.  The cast for the film included Laura Linney (”The Truman Show”) and James McAvoy (”The Last King of Scotland”). The storyline for the film was a bit bizarre, but remember: this is Hollywood. McAvoy and Linney play a couple whose home and yard comes under attack by raccoons.  Billed as a “dark comedy,” producers found several elements of Tomchak’s home to be ideal for their vision of the story’s setting: “large rooms, high ceilings and a big yard.”

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