Sleepless in Seattle
Category
Romance
Director
Nora Ephron
Cast
- Tom Hanks
- Meg Ryan
- Bill Pullman
- Rosie O'Donnell
- Rob Reiner
Release Date
25 June 1993
Synopsis
Sleepless in Seattle is the ultimate romantic comedy of the nineties. With Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan teaming up with Nora Ephron, the result could only be great. This movie is a very modern take on love - Hanks and Ryan meet against all odds because of a radio show broadcasted all over the country. Sleepless in Seattle only shows the great gestures that people are moved to make because of love, and how obstacles met along the way only make the final encounter even more meaningful.
Sam Baldwin is a widower with a young son of eight named Jonah. They recently moved to Seattle in an attempt to forget the painful memory of the death Sam's wife, but Sam is still stricken with grief. The meddlesome Jonah makes a call to Doctor Marcia and tells her about his father. Thousands hear this broadcast, and Annie Reed is just one of the many women who are moved by Sam's story. Letters are sent from all over America and Jonah peruses through all of them. He finds Annie's letter and decides that she is the one for his father, but Sam is not willing to comply with Jonah's wish for them to meet. In a desperate attempt, Jonah flees to New York on Valentine's Day to set up his father and Annie at the Empire State Building, reminiscent of the movie Affair to Remember.
Sleepless in Seattle is a sentimental story, which would likely appeal to hopeless romantics the most. The movie isn't entirely sappy as Hanks and Ryan pull off their roles with their characters simply clicking with one another. One can almost feel how the two are instinctively right for one another, and you'll see yourself rooting for them to end up together. Humor is rightly injected at the proper places, and the question of true love is thrown around from time to time, with the movie's other characters bantering with the leads.
Whether you're seeing it for the first time or the nth time, Sleepless in Seattle belongs to the list of romantic flicks that allow you to feel warm and fuzzy inside, with just the right about of everything