That would be Walter, the guy who gets dumped in the middle of a Valentine’s Day dinner so his fiancée (Ryan) can run off and test her chemistry with some dude she doesn’t know (Hanks) on top of the Empire State Building. However, as we commemorate the movie’s 25th anniversary - Sleepless arrived in theaters on June 25, 1993, and went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of that year - it seems only fair to acknowledge the movie’s most troubling aspect and the character most deeply affected by it.
Sleepless in Seattle is great, and before you try to tell me it’s not as good as You’ve Got Mail, please hush, because you are wrong.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATLE SOUNDTRACK MOVIE
A real treat.Sleepless in Seattle is a wonderful, fundamentally hopeful movie that contains many lovely elements, including Tom Hanks at his Tom Hanks-iest Meg Ryan at the height of her rom-com powers a soundtrack filled with sweet standards the direction of Nora Ephron, who also co-wrote the screenplay and spikes its sentimentality with her trademark wry, observant humor a baby Gaby Hoffmann using social-media-ready abbreviations (“MFEO” for “made for each other”) well before social media was invented and Rita Wilson recounting the plot of An Affair to Remember as though an emotional dam inside of her has just burst. Shamelessly slushy fluff it may well be, but you'd have to be hard-hearted indeed to leave the cinema without feeling just that touch gooey inside. The soundtrack may be at times surprising (Jimmy Durante singing As Time Goes By?), and at times too literal for its own good (do we really need In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning to tell us what we already know?), but Ryan looks good enough to eat, Hanks women will find hard to resist, and the kid is one of the most appealing on screen for years. Conspiring to keep the star-crossed lovers apart for the majority of the film, Ephron's script is often uproariously funny (Hanks and buddy extolling the merits of The Dirty Dozen is especially memorable), while there is able support from O'Donnell and Rob Reiner as Annie's and Sam's best buddies respectively. Very much in the vein of When Harry Met Sally, this cannily uses clips from the 1957 Cary Grant vehicle An Affair To Remember to delightfully screwball effect, even going so far as to have Jonah arrange a meeting between Hanks and Ryan atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. Plucking from the burgeoning pile a letter purporting to be from Annie, who Jonah is convinced is the one, he hatches a scheme to introduce them, despite their living 3,000 miles apart. These include lovelorn Baltimore journo Annie Reed (Ryan) who finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed by his description of his first meeting with his wife as "magic" and fears that if she marries her sensible but sterile fiance Walter (Pullman) she will settle for "satisfactory" rather than "magical".Īs the offers of marriage flood in for "Sleepless", Jonah (Ross Malinger) takes it upon himself to play matchmaker and find himself a mother, and his dad a new wife from the thousands of applicants. When recently widowed architect Sam Baldwin (Hanks) is conned into taking part in a late night Christmas Eve phone-in radio talk show by his young son Jonah, his on-air "why-I-loved-my-wife" confession has heart-string tugging repercussions throughout the land as women all over America fall in love with the disembodied voice known only as "Sleepless in Seattle". A hugely enjoyable romantic comedy, directed by the writer of When Harry Met Sally, this attacks both funny bone and tear-ducts with equal success.
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