Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I rate movies on imdb quite often but very rarely do I review them. This movie was the most ridiculous romantic movie I've ever seen and it forced me to vent my frustration here. It insults the way I understand love. Its not a love story. Its nothing. Its just a story of a stupid child falling in love with a woman coz' her favorite baseball player is the same as his Dad's favorite baseball player. Now, my review has spoilers, but please do read it and save yourself the frustration of going through the movie.Picture this: Meg ryan falls in love with Tom hanks just by listening to his sob story on radio about how much he loved his deceased wife and writes him a love letter. In fact, thousands of women write him a love letter after listening to his sob story (Really, are women that desperate? Which planet is Tom Hanks living on?).Now, if you somehow convince yourself to believe that it is possible for a girl to fall in love like that, now picture this: The kid reads all the letters including Meg Ryan's and immediately decides that Meg Ryan is destined to be his new mom. Now what is so magical about this letter? We don't know. All we know is that a)Meg Ryan has not written a letter like this to a stranger before. b) She writes something about magic. c) She tells Tom hanks to meet her at Empire State on Valentines Day. c) She mentions her favorite baseball player and hey stranger, I love you only if he is your favorite too. Otherwise, don't bother. Apart from that we just don;t know what was written in the letter that made the child go mad about Meg Ryan. Now, 99/100 times, characters would read such letters on screen to let the audience know its contents. But here, Meg Ryan doesn't read it out loud. The kid doesn't read it out loud. Tom Hanks literally 'blah, blah, blahed' it. Why don't they read it out loud for us? I'll tell you why. Coz' even the writer/director couldn't fathom what a stranger woman could write in a letter that could make Tom's kid going mad about her look justifiable.Now, although the kid is madly in love with her after reading the letter, Tom Hanks is not impressed at all. Like I said, he literally 'blah, blah, blahed' it. However, his kid practically blackmails him into meeting her at Empire State. And just to make sure that him holding her hand and falling in love with her instantly doesn't look farcical, the director tries to justify Hank's actions by establishing a 'connection' between the two. It involves him checking her out once at the airport (Men will be men! They all check out beautiful girls all the time. Didn't know that amounts to 'connection') and saying hello to her once on the street and BAM!! There is obviously a connection. They are made for eachother.Now, that's not all. Both Tom and Meg are dating someone at the time. And they are both perfect. But in order to make them look like obvious dumping material, they are reduced to caricatures. Meg's fiance is allergic to everything and sneezes a lot. Obviously, he deserves to be dumped. SO WHAT, if he loves you and downsized her mother's ring for you? Tom's girlfriend laughs like hyena (Although, I felt her laugh wasn't even that bad. I mean it wasn't Janice bad. Friends' fans would know what I'm talking about). But obviously, its enough evidence to dump her, My Lord! The catch here is that Tom Hanks doesn't even feel that way about her. Its the kid who hates her. I wonder what the kid would have done if Meg Ryan too had a weird laugh like that.All right. Rant over

I personally fell in love with her eyes and God Tom Hanks looked handsome when he had hair, and the story is of the simpler time, I think for today's generation it will serve as a reminder that life doesn't have to be fast-paced. Enjoy the moment, instead of being anxious about the next one.

and nothing more. nice performances, humor , admirable job of Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan in a role who seems just embroidery of clichés. and, important detail, maybe the most important is the sauce of An Affair to Remember. so important to the impression to define Sleepless an exercise of remake. but, sure, it is a beautiful film. not memorable, not using a credible story. only beautiful. and boring in few scenes. sure, it has its special target and this is the explanation of mix f smart and not real intelligent things, the too obvious romantic pressure, the strange reactions of characters and the love as pretext for a film who must touch. I admit, I am not the fan of genre. but the fame/success of Sleepless in Seattle remains for me an enigma. the only coherent explanation - the status of piece from a period when Tom Hanks becomes star.

Sleepless in Seattle creates many emotions in the viewers that develop throughout the entire movie through music. When Sam is looking for his son, a piano is used for music, which is slow and soft with minor sad notes. The music however builds up as Sam and Annie get closer together, changing to happy playful tunes, a song of triumph. This creates such an emotional response in the viewers as it tells the viewer how to feel just by the tender sad notes or playful happy notes.The cessation of music creates suspense, a moment for viewers to breathe and wonder what will happen next. Music was controlling the entire ending of Sleepless in Seattle, it unearthed emotions within me because the music took me on a journey whilst watching images, rather than the images taking me on a journey. The power of positive and negative notes in music cannot be measured and Sleepless in Seattle uses music with purpose and intent. This is one of my favourite all time movies!!!