Sleepless in Seattle Reviews
Mostly, Sleepless in Seattle leaves you feeling restless in the audience.
If one can ignore all the straining for lightness here, this is watchable enough, though hardly anything resembling a tearjerker.
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.
It's easily the hippest, frankest and funniest date movie around.
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Top CriticThe schmaltzy soundtrack is overdone, but cameraman Sven Nykvist wraps it all up in an appropriately warm glow.
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
A quick check of the exiting audience found many smiling -- and still clutching tissues.
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
