![]() Does the blonde set him free? Spoiler alert: No. If this is really all the film can come up with to make us hate Bill Pullman's character, this sucks.īut OK, maybe Annie's just not feeling it, and, in that case, she should set this complete keeper free so he can go pursue his happily ever after with someone who's as crazy about him as Annie clearly is about tragic widowers on the radio. Oh, yeah, also, he's hopelessly devoted to Annie. But what exactly is so bad about the Baltimore Sun reporter's fiancé? The dude can't dance. He's the one obstacle in the way of Annie finding true love. He's set up as the guy we're meant to eye roll at. However, that doesn't mean its morals are in the right place. It's a '90s cult classic that people are still tweeting about almost a quarter of a century later. The unforgettable Meg Ryan rom-com has a 72 percent Rotten Tomato rating. It features (in no particular order): an argument being made for treating perfectly nice romantic partners/potential partners like trash advocating for choosing a voice on the radio instead of the guy you've been in a relationship with for a long time and, oh yeah, a weirdly supportive attitude toward stalking. All the same, sorry to say, Sleepless In Seattle is the most toxic rom-com ever. A real treat.Yes, Sleepless In Seattle boasts two of the '90s most talented rom-com thespians, and it was co-written by real life word witch Nora Ephron. 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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