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Sleepless in Seattle
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?
1993 · Directed by Nora Ephron · 105 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 15 frames
Tagline
What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you?
Plot
Architect Sam Baldwin moves from Chicago to Seattle with his eight-year-old son, Jonah, to start a new life following the death of his beloved wife, Maggie. Over a year later, on Christmas Eve, Jonah calls a nationally syndicated radio talk show seeking advice on how to help his father find happiness again. He persuades a reluctant Sam to go on the air and talk about how much he misses Maggie. Sam describes her as his soulmate, explaining that he knew she was the one when he first took her hand and believes he could never find true love twice. Touched by his story, thousands of women across the country write to him.
One listener is Annie Reed, a Baltimore Sun reporter. She is engaged to the sensible and supportive Walter, but feels something is missing from their relationship. Her friend and editor, Becky, suggests Annie longs for the kind of destined romance found "in a movie", although Annie dismisses the idea of magical love or fate. Inspired by the romance film An Affair to Remember, Annie writes Sam a letter proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building in New York City on Valentine's Day. She decides against sending it, but Becky secretly mails it.
Encouraged by the response to his radio appearance and by his friends, Sam begins dating a co-worker, Victoria, whom Jonah vehemently dislikes. When Jonah reads Annie's letter, he instinctively believes she could be the one for his father, but Sam dismisses the idea because of the distance between Seattle and Baltimore. Jonah's friend Jessica urges him to reply on Sam's behalf, agreeing to the meeting. After Jonah calls the radio show again and reveals that Sam is dating, Annie travels to Seattle on a work assignment arranged by Becky as a pretext to learn more about him.
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Crew
- Screenplay: David S. Ward, Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron
- Cinematography: Sven Nykvist
- Edited by: Robert M. Reitano
- Music: Marc Shaiman
- Production design: Jeffrey Townsend
- Produced by: Gary Foster
Cast
- Meg Ryan as Annie Reed
- Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin
- Ross Malinger as Jonah Baldwin
- Bill Pullman as Walter
- Rosie O'Donnell as Becky
- Barbara Garrick as Victoria
- Rob Reiner as Jay
- Gaby Hoffmann as Jessica
- Rita Wilson as Suzy
- Victor Garber as Greg
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: TriStar Pictures
- Budget: $21,000,000
- Box office: $227,799,884
- Themes: new year's eve, new york city, journalist, friendship, lovesickness, airplane, love of one's life, unsociability, parent child relationship, loss of loved one
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