She extols the virtues of Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson and offers to meet Sam atop the Empire State Building next Valentine’s Day, borrowing the plot device from her favorite mythic love story, 1957’s An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Meanwhile, Baltimore-based feature writer Annie ( Chandra Lee Schwartz), newly engaged to reliable if stolid Walter ( Robert Mammana), is herself captivated and dragooned by her editor, Becky (Sabrina Sloan), into penning her own missive. Jonah dials a radio call-in psychologist and impresses his dad onto the phone, where Sam’s reluctant sincerity generates a frenzy of letter-writing from interested women across the country. Though he insists they are doing well enough on their own, Sam does stay awake nights staring into space.
Widower Sam ( Tim Martin Gleason), a mere year after his wife’s death, is being pressured by his 10-year-old son, Jonah ( Joe West), to start dating again.
PHOTOS: From ‘When Harry Met Sally’ to ‘Sleepless in Seattle’: 11 Movies From Nora Ephron’s Celebrated Career And I oftentimes think people undervalue them because women like romantic comedies so much and it seemed somehow not as intellectual or something, but I just love them.Tom Hanks, Baby Jessica and Lessons from a Three Strike WriterĪlthough there remain opportunities for improvement (particularly in the confusing action that opens the second act), it’s conceivable this may represent the best stab possible at legitimizing this rum material. But I truly don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. The Late Night actress added: “I feel like people talk about romantic comedies they love, and they say that they’re their guilty pleasures. I really just love the genre and I’ve always felt that it is an undervalued genre.” “It could be, While You Were Sleeping, starring Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, or Sleepless in Seattle. “I grew up in the time of the great romantic comedy movies of the ’90s and I wasn’t a snob about any of them either,” Kaling told Audible in December 2019 of her love of rom-coms, especially those by Ephron. Mindy Kaling, for example, paid homage to the rom-com during the 2014 finale of her hit comedy The Mindy Project with the lead characters finding each other at the top of the iconic building. The scene, which was inspired by An Affair to Remember, has since become a moment that fans have tried to recreate in their own lives. She ultimately leaves him and heads to the Empire State Building where Jonah and Sam are waiting. Annie’s lightbulb moment comes while she’s at dinner with her fiancé ( Bill Pullman) in New York City on New Year’s Eve. Listeners from all over fall in love with both Jonah and Sam, who eventually bares his soul on the show, including a reporter named Annie Reed ( Meg Ryan).ĭespite being engaged, Annie quickly realizes that Sam is the man for her. The Nora Ephron-directed film, which premiered in 1993, has stood the test of time thanks to its heartwarming story of a widowed father Sam Baldwin ( Tom Hanks) and his son, Jonah ( Ross Malinger), trying to get back on their feet after moving to Seattle where they live on a houseboat.Īfter losing his mother, Jonah realizes that his father is still very unhappy, so he calls into a radio talk show late at night to seek advice and get his dad a date. The Empire State building is for lovers! Sleepless in Seattle has captivated audiences - and hopeless romantics everywhere - for nearly three decades.
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