Daphne Tomchak, 56, knew that letting a film crew use her house on the edge of the arboretum through July would be a drag. But the sacrifice would reap a huge reward—or so she thought. Producers of The Details, a dark comedy starring James McAvoy, offered her a contract in May that would allow them to tear out walls to convert two bedrooms into one large room; in exchange, crews would restore the house to her liking. “They were going to install French doors in the back and a new garden,” she says. Crews would also redesign the rear bedroom, install new walls, and refinish the floors.

But on the afternoon of June 3—after the 1914 Craftsman house was gutted—crews called Tomchack. “They said, ‘You need to come home right away; we lost our funding so we are pulling out.’”

In the place where they agreed to install French doors, “It is just a dirty wall,” says Tomchak. Some of the walls are stripped to their structural elements, and holes are in the floor in the place where heat ducts used to be. In one room, she says, “the plumbing is exposed, but you can’t see it very well because the power is out in that room.”

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The Details, which was due out next year, is about “a couple whose disagreements over how to deal with their raccoon infestation leads to an escalating series of events,” according to IMDb. “It’s the worst movie script I have ever read,” Tomchak says.

The film's producers had initially instructed Tomchak to use $13,000 that they gave her for temporary lodging to renovate her house. But Tomchak, an architect, says restoring her house would cost at least $25,000. Anything else, she says, they told her to pay for herself. “They said to send them a bill and they would add it to their pile.”

But she can’t get any more information. “They are not talking to me,” Tomchak says. Calls from The Stranger to the location manager, Doug du Mas, have gone unanswered. And attempts to reach the film's producer, Jennifer Roth, President of the Northwest Film Forum, have also been unsuccessful.