Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness soon leads to a meeting with a young female journalist, who has flown to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his father.
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Overrated and overhyped
Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
It was such a stunning movie.worth to watch it and learned so many things. tom hanks is best guy in my life.
So after watching the dreadful Set It Up I needed a decent romcom to clear the palate and saw When Harry Met Sally. Pretty great. Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, written by Norah Ephron, directed by Rob Reiner. So last night I was tempted by Sleepless in Seattle, with Ephron, Ryan and Reiner showing up again in a slightly different configuration. Oh boy, the news is not good. Few scenes work, they lurch and stagger along and then just expire. Here's a great rule of thumb: when the supporting players have no chemistry, head for the hills. Rosie O'Donnell as Ryan's best friend looks uncomfortable, like her lines have crawled into her mouth and died. Hanks seems stiff and unconvincing, Ryan seems to be phoning it in. It's like the movie (or the director, or the writer) has taken it for granted we'll be swept up in the romance and hasn't bothered to do anything to earn our submission. Great romcoms put flesh on the mechanical romcom skeleton so we don't notice the mechanism. Here, it's laid bare and the whirring and clanking forestalls enjoyment of the goings-on. Interesting that the movie's romantic touchstone, An Affair to Remember (Ryan and O'Donnell mouth lines while watching it, and the Valentine's Day meeting on the Empire State Building is borrowed from it), is similarly stiff, dreary and unconvincing. Guess not everything Ephron touched turned to gold. Or maybe I'm alone in this view.
Sleepless In Seattle is one of those overrated classics, it's average at best. The comedy aspect is a 4 out of 10, Rosie O' Donnell is the one with the most funny lines and she is not in the film that much, the romance...there really isn't that much romance, these two male and female main characters don't know each other from Adam, and he doesn't know anything about her until halfway through and even when he does he doesn't have the same mindset as she has towards him.We see Meg Ryan's character "Annie" stalk this man by sneaking around hiring a private investigator, travelling to his house, watching him play with his son at the beach, if the roles were reversed and this was a man doing these things it would look creepy, but because it's a female doing it, we're supposed to find it "Romantic".Sleepless In Seattle is one of those Christmas/New Years movies, only worth watching once a year.
A lonely father and his young son suffer greatly after his beloved wife dies, thus leaving a huge hole in their lives. Obviously, the one who is the most affected is the little one and as his father doesn't give any sign of trying to restart his life with another woman, he calls the local radio to ask for advice. His father also gets involved and ends up telling the entire public the story of his life. From there, their lives take an unexpected turn, the mailbox being flooded every day with mails from various women impressed by their story. All pretenders seem the same but the son spots something different and is determined to make his father meet that woman before he gets deeper in his new relation.It's a sad story but with well inserted comedy elements which manages to impress you with every single thing it does, with its great story, actors and subtle comedy but it quickly gets predictable while the ending doesn't do the love story much justice. It leaves you a bit disappointed, finishing so abruptly and not providing many details regarding what will happen next. Overall it's a great watch, especially with the loved ones, which had everything to be brilliant but its finale didn't receive as much attention as the rest of the movie.