#SLEEPLESS IN SEATLE FILM TV#
READ MORE: Smallville 2×22 – ‘Calling’ – TV Rewind The same cannot be said of Sleepless in Seattle which has become something of an increasingly perennial favourite amongst romantic comedy fans and was even being referred to as something of a modern classic as soon as 1996’s The Cable Guy, admittedly a film that is as far away from a film like this as possible.
That film was something of an oddity, met with respectable box office and reviews, but it’s strangely a film that’s fallen through the cracks when it comes to the collaborations between Hanks and Ryan. That honour belonged to Moonstruckwriter John Patrick Shanley’s Joe Versus the Volcano However, Sleepless in Seattle was not the first time Hanks and Ryan starred in the same film. They both shared a genre (romantic comedy) and they both shared the same writer and director (and it’s here that we say hello once again to the great Nora Ephron).
#SLEEPLESS IN SEATLE FILM MOVIE#
Set The Tape presents Rom-Com Rewind, a series looking at the history of the genre and how it has developed over the course of nearly a hundred years of movie history.Īsk anyone about the films that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan starred in together and chances are two will come to mind because they are two that anyone remembers. The end result is a decent drama that never entirely lives up to its place as a classic romcom, with the typically stellar work from both Hanks and Ryan often buoying the proceedings through its more overtly ineffective stretches.The romantic comedy has proved an enduring genre for the silver screen, from the screwball comedy of the 30s to its peak in the 90s, and resurgent popularity in the 2010s. (There are, admittedly, a small handful of exceptions to this, including a high-water-mark interlude detailing Sam’s conversation on the aforementioned radio show.) Despite its somewhat uninvolving atmosphere, however, the picture remains fairly watchable throughout and it’s worth noting, certainly, that it generally succeeds more as a character study than as a full-fledged romance (eg Sam’s ongoing efforts at moving on with his life are quite stirring and emotionally resonant) – which ultimately ensures that the climactic coupling isn’t quite able to pack the heartwarming punch Ephron has surely intended. Ward and Jeff Arch, delivers a slow-moving narrative that keeps Hanks and Ryan’s respective characters apart for the majority of the movie’s runtime, and there’s little doubt that the film, as a result, suffers from a somewhat erratic atmosphere that’s allayed by the two stars’ undeniably charismatic work – although, by that same token, it’s clear that Sleepless in Seattle does suffer from a dearth of wholeheartedly memorable sequences. Filmmaker Ephron, working from a script written with David S.
Directed by Nora Ephron, Sleepless in Seattle follows Meg Ryan’s Annie Reed as she finds herself falling for a man (Tom Hanks’ Sam Baldwin) she’s never met after hearing him speak of his grief on a national radio show – with the storyline detailing the separate exploits of the two figures as she prepares for her marriage to Bill Pullman’s boring Walter and he finally begins dating again.
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