Sam and Jay discuss Tiramisu and dating in the 1990s Sam: Some woman is going to want me to do it to her, and I won’t know what it is… In a classic lunch scene at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Jay gives Sam dating tips. Sam‘s best friend, Jay, is played by director Rob Reiner. Sleepless has other interesting male characters. Jonah: “ No, I am going to meet my new mother.” After flying on his own to New York, he has a taxi drop him off at the Empire State building:Ĭab driver: “ What are you going to do when you get up there? Spit from the top?” Consider yourself lucky if all she does is boil your kid’s favorite pet on the kitchen stove!) Many cheating husbands still forget the great life lesson in Fatal Attraction: A jilted, unstable mistress is likely to turn into a stalker and cause havoc in your personal life. (Sam may have been out of the dating scene for a long time, he is still a smart man. It scared the shit out of every man in America!” Didn’t you see Fatal Attraction? (…) Well, I saw it. – “ There is no way that we are going on a plane to meet a woman who could be a crazy sick lunatic. Sam‘s answer, a reference to a popular 1980s thriller, Fatal Attraction: Later, once he believes he has found the perfect wife for Sam, he begs his father to fly across the country to go and meet her at the top of the Empire State Building on Valentine’s day. During his dad’s first date with the assertive Victoria ( Barbara Garrick, pictured above,) he calls a radio talk show host for help and screams: “ My father is kissing her on the lips! She’s a hoe! My father has been captured by a hoe!” Jonah is a cute kid, but he makes his widowed father’s life complicated while trying to help him. Sam gets his nickname “Sleepless in Seattle,”Īnd a devoted female following across the country But Sleepless is also a touching love story between a father ( Hanks,) and his young son (played to perfection by young Ross Malinger.) The undeniable chemistry between Tom Hanksand Meg Ryan(two of the most likeable and bankable stars in American cinema,) helped carry the movie, even if they have only a few short scenes together, a gutsy move by writer/director Nora Ephron. Most people would refer to Sleepless as a “chick-flick,” a love story. After many plot twists and some help from two meddlesome children, Sam and Annie meet at the top of the Empire State Building and… it’s like magic. One of them, Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed (Meg Ryan,) falls in love with Sam and risks everything to meet him. Thousands of women across the country hear Sam’s story that night. Widowed father Sam Baldwin, ( Tom Hanks) moves from Chicago to Seattle to start a new life with his precociousĨ-year old son, Jonah (Ross Malinger.) A few months later, on Christmas eve, Jonah calls a popular radio talk show host to try and help his father find a new wife. Just so you can follow my ramblings today, how about a quick plot summary? Seattle weather is still a sure thing, and another character warns: “ It rains nine months a year in Seattle.”
Several scenes show cramped coach cabins on domestic flights, and one (young) character exclaims: “ I’d rather die than eat airplane food!” Three female characters sport short, permed bobs… Sure, you can tell the story takes place in the early 1990s: I did not spot a single cell phone.
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I watched Sleepless again last weekend, and I was surprised to notice this Classic – the movie turned 20 this year – has aged pretty well. In fact, Sleepless pulled off an amazing feat: It made one of the soggiest, grayest American cities look irresistible. For me at least, Sleepless did a much better job at selling Seattle than Singles. Even if they were both considered romantic comedies, these were totally different movies. Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle was released a short year after Singles, and it quickly became a box office darling. It would still be a few years until I took my first trip to the Emerald City, where I would end up moving and living for 18 years. Singles is what put Seattle on the map for me. I only knew where Seattle was because the year before, I had seen another fun flick, Cameron Crowe‘s Singles. A long time ago, when I still lived in Paris, France, I remember going to the movies (I did that a lot,) and watching a romantic comedy named Sleepless in Seattle.
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