Sleepless in Seattle

Effective, functional and elegant, it has a script that I didn't like very much, and it has aged a little badly, but it remains an endearing film.

This is surely one of the most famous romantic comedies that came out during the 90's, and one of the films that helped to popularize Tom Hanks, showing the world that he could be a serious actor and do more interesting things besides comedy. The film begins with a man and his young son moving to Seattle to deal with a mourning process. There, the child begins to pressure his father to find a girlfriend, to the point of calling a radio program where the father tells his story, touching a young journalist from Baltimore who is about to marry a man she doesn't love.

The script relies heav...

I can't say I had a fun time with 'Sleepless in Seattle'.

Post-watching, I was unsure how I felt about it. The whole set-up and how the story is portrayed is weird, the fact that the two characters in what supposed to be a romcom don't even properly meet until the final act is an odd choice, like don't get me wrong I can see it working but here it didn't for me... especially with one side giving stalker vibes, which adds to the weirdness.

I also wasn't convinced by the two leads, in both their performances and in their suitability - obviously the latter is hampered by the fact we barely seem them together so they cannot show any chemistry. Tom Hanks is the standout but only just, Meg Ryan tries though her character is just a bit munda...

Its easier to get killed by a terrorist than to get married at over forty! Maybe a bit of an overstatement, but its the sentiment here as recently widowed Sam (Tom Hanks) moves to Seattle with his son Jonah (Ross Malinger) to start again. Unable to shake off the effects of his grief, it falls to the young lad to galvanise his dad into meeting someone new, and so he arranges a late night radio catharsis which is heard by Annie (Meg Ryan). She is entangled with the nice but dull Walter (Bill Pullman) but as she begins to let romantic fantasies about Sam take over she revisits her favourite Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr film An Affair to Remember and comes up with the idea of writing to him asking for a rendezvous atop the Empire State Building....