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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
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Reviews for Sleepless in Seattle
Ryan and Hanks, even apart, have the chemistry to make a very agreeable entertainment.
If one can ignore all the straining for lightness here, this is watchable enough, though hardly anything resembling a tearjerker.
Sleepless in Seattle is as ephemeral as a talk show, as contrived as the late show, and yet so warm and gentle I smiled the whole way through.
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I have fallen in love with Sleepless in Seattle.
Like most of Ephron's work, this one is shallow, contrived and ineptly directed, but it stars two of America's most likable stars, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks; purists will never forgive Ephron for taking a cheap stab at Love Affair (the Cary Grant version)
Not one of the cleverer rom-coms of this ilk... but sweet and touching nevertheless and Tom Hanks is always watchable.
Seems too precalculated to be charming and magical, and consequently ends up being overly cute.
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.
Sleepless in Seattle is done with the panache that Hollywood used to do romantic comedies, but seldom does anymore.
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.
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