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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:31
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) is a good father and a successful architect. But he's also a lonely widower. One night his precocious 8-year-old son Jonah calls a late-night radio talk show seeking a cure... Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) is a good father and a successful architect. But he's also a lonely widower. One night his precocious 8-year-old son Jonah calls a late-night radio talk show seeking a cure for his father's despondency. When Sam hesitantly takes the phone and discloses the story of his magic-filled marriage, he proves to be a deeply feeling and gentle man. His plight profoundly moves the program's sympathetic female listeners, and thousands of women write in offering to help him `recover' from his mournful insomnia. Recently betrothed Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) is one of the many listeners touched by Sam's story. To complicate matters, she's afraid her upcoming marriage promises stability and security but no excitement. Although Annie's supposed to be driving to her future in-laws' house for the holidays, she knows that she's already fallen in love with Sam and is on the road to destiny. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Screenplay, Best Song ("A Wink and a Smile"). [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rosie O'Donnell
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rosie O'Donnell, Bill Pullman, David Hyde Pierce, Rob Reiner, Rita Wilson, Gaby Hoffman
Director: Nora Ephron
Director: Nora Ephron
Screenwriter: Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch
Reviews for Sleepless in Seattle
Should gather a few more converts to the idea that certain people are destined for each other.
Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle is a feather-light romantic comedy about two lovers who meet for the first time in the last reel. It's a stunt, but it's a stunt that works far more effectively than anybody in his right mind has reason to expect.
Sleepless in Seattle is done with the panache that Hollywood used to do romantic comedies, but seldom does anymore.
This is essentially a romance involving two people on different coasts, but Hanks and Ryan and Director Ephron's screenplay make it work, along with some very nice supporting performances.
It's the kind of movie that reaches your emotional core and your dreams and make you feel alive by showing you how good life can be despite the little setbacks.
Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle is a throwback to the sexless romantic comedies of the 1930s.
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I have fallen in love with Sleepless in Seattle.
Nora Ephron botched Sleepless in Seattle, a hollow, boring romance that should appeal only to the most gullible of viewers; the ones willing to buy into Ephron's whiny views of life and romance.
We fall -- and I think a lot of people will fall hard for this movie -- even though we know we shouldn't.
This is a dreamy, romantic fantasy whose mood falls somewhere between magic and reality.
A quick check of the exiting audience found many smiling -- and still clutching tissues.
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