The 2010 film Extraordinary Measures, starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell (great cast!), was filmed in and around Portland.
The movie tells the true story of a father working to develop a treatment for his children’s rare genetic disorder. Portland’s mix of residential neighborhoods, medical facilities, and recognizable city backdrops made it a natural fit for the film’s setting.
While Extraordinary Measures isn’t closely tied to specific, easily identifiable locations, parts of the city were used to represent Boston and other urban environments.
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| Filming at Pioneer Courthouse Square - wikipedia.org |
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| Scene filmed at Pioneer Square |
During filming, the working title was "The Untitled Crowley Project". The South Waterfront blog covered filming taking place in a few locations in 2009:
West Moreland ball fields on 99E (April)
OHSU, VA & Dornbecher Children's Hospital (June)
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| Up on The Hill |
Oaks Park (June) - Fun fact, this site was also used in filming the 1993 orca movie, Free Willy.
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| Oaks Park Roller Rink |
The Nike campus in Beaverton was also used for filming, the first time this was allowed on campus. The screening was held at the Nike Stanford Theater and all proceeds went to Dornbecher.
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| Nike campus |
Also filmed on the beach in Manzanita,
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| Manzanita beach |
and Vancouver and Lake Oswego (according to IMDB).
Today, Portland continues to be a flexible filming location for both television and film, and Extraordinary Measures was another example of how the city quietly supports a wide range of productions.
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