Jonah decides to take matters into his own hands andĪnswers Annie's letter, agreeing to a rooftop meeting, which sets the rest of the frankly preposterous plot into motion. Garrick), a woman with whom Jonah is less than thrilled. Well meaning but kind of boring Walter (Bill Pullman) while Sam begins dating a coworker named Victoria (Barbara Several intervening factors keep happily ever after from occurring too easily or in fact too soon. Who is screening the piles of mail his father's radio appearance has engendered. The note, but fate-and her best friend Becky (Rosie O'Donnell)-intervene, and the note is delivered, albeit to Jonah, Annie actually thinks better about mailing Suggesting that they meet atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. Reporter Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), who takes a page out of An Affair to Remember and dashes off a note to Sam Women around the country listen to Sam as he relays the devastation he's experiencing. Sam is dubbed "Sleepless in Seattle" by the host, and millions of tearful Laura, only without repeated use of the "n" word) and manages to persuade his father to get on the phone, too, toĭiscuss his lingering emotional depression. Jonah calls into to one of those radio psychiatric help shows (thinkĭr. His wife, at which point fate-and Jonah-intervene. A year and a half later, Sam is still not over the death of Uproots Jonah from their Chicago home and moves to Seattle. Now must attempt to parent his precocious son Jonah (Ross Malinger) alone. Sleepless in Seattle deals with recently widowed architect Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks), an urban professional who This becomes an almost unbearable delaying of gratification.įor those who have never seen this film ( are there any, considering the film's remarkable popularity?), Salient "gimmick" around which the entire plot of the film hinges: the would be lovers must not meet until the lastĬonceivable moment. Sleepless in Seattle repeatedly before it was finally in a workable format, but even they couldn't escape this one As they make clear in their commentary, both Nora and Delia Ephron tweaked the script for Happy ending, and while that may well entice unbridled romantics, it may push more cynical types to the point of Sleepless in Seattle relies on an inordinate amount of delaying tactics to get to its preordained Sleepless in Seattle, something that may tend to annoy some (most likely males) while entrancing others (most Proves to be a largely enjoyable enterprise in one of Ephron's sweetest pieces of writing.Ĭhance and fate, those twin Janus heads adorning flip sides of the same coin, are front and center throughout Running time, and if the ultimate outcome is never really in much doubt, getting to the top of the Empire State Building
Widower, his precocious son, and a lovelorn albeit engaged woman circle each other precariously for much of the film's Perhaps more believable gambit, namely the everyday chaos that seems to swirl around many people's lives. While the Cary Grant –ĭeborah Kerr film used a rather disturbing accident to keep its lovers from meeting, Sleepless in Seattle uses a Good effect) has a notable antecedent, in this case the well-remembered 1957 tearjerker An Affair to Remember. Musical She Loves Me, Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle (which itself has been musicalized to not especially Other films, which include everything from Silkwood to Julie & Julia.) Much like her later You've Got Mail, which can trace its source materialīack through the play Parfumerie, which ultimately became the Ernst Lubitsch film The Shop Around theĬorner and then the musical film In the Good Old Summertime, and, decades later, the Broadway (This is not to minimize some of Ephron's Legacy is probably most solidly tied to her romantic comedies, notably When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle.
Of a little more than 25 years, Ephron was involved in one way or another in "only" fifteen films. Her filmography is surprisingly varied, especially considering the fact that over the course Nora Ephron emerged as perhaps ( perhaps) the most widely recognized of her siblings Ephron was the daughter of Henry and PhoebeĮphron, both established writers and scenarists, and Ephron was of course sibling to three sisters who themselvesīecame notable writers. She was eulogized as one of the protean talents of her generation. When Nora Ephron died in June 2012 from pneumonia brought on by her long (if largely secret) battle with leukemia, Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, July 18, 2013
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