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... [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rosie O'Donnell
Director: Nora Ephron
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Reviews for Sleepless in Seattle
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A romantic treat. Full Review |
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Mostly, Sleepless in Seattle leaves you feeling restless in the audience. Full Review |
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If one can ignore all the straining for lightness here, this is watchable enough, though hardly anything resembling a tearjerker. Full Review |
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Ephron and fellow writers Jeff Arch and David S. Ward have conspired to make Sleepless in Seattle as purposefully schmaltzy as one can imagine, in a manner that's almost cynical. Full Review |
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2/5 |
So overrated.
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B- |
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) Full Review |
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It's easily the hippest, frankest and funniest date movie around. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Sure it's contrived, but what a great romantic weeper.
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The schmaltzy soundtrack is overdone, but cameraman Sven Nykvist wraps it all up in an appropriately warm glow. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Seems too precalculated to be charming and magical, and consequently ends up being overly cute.
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2/5 |
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[T]he epitome of the modern romantic comedy... Full Review |
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3/5 |
Better than you might expect, but it
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4/4 |
Predictable, manipulative, and completely satisfying. Full Review |
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5/5 |
One of the finest of all Hollywood romantic comedies.
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2.5/5 |
Contrived Full Review |
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4/5 |
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Should gather a few more converts to the idea that certain people are destined for each other. Full Review |
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