| SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE |
 1993
- USA
Director:
Nora Ephron - Reviewed by Kerri 
The second in what I like to call the "Ephron Trilogy" (When Harry Met Sally,
Sleepless in Seattle, and You've Got Mail), this romantic comedy teams up Hanks
and Ryan and puts them into a setting other than New York for once. Harry
Connick Jr. provides the music as he did for When Harry Met Sally. The
premise is once again, pure fantasy: man loses wife, son wants new mother,
woman meets man, instant love. The twist of course is that it takes place in
this little charming town no one's heard of before 1993 called Seattle.
Henceforth we get a smattering of rain jokes, houseboats that no individual
architect could realistically afford, beach shots, and the like. Having
grown up in Seattle, it was funny when this came out to recognize scenes in
the movie, and openly scoff at cinematographic blunders: (uh, since when can
you row a little boat from Lake Union to Alki Beach?). Still, I thank Ephron
for leaving out the gratuitous Space Needle scene.
The role of Annie isn't too much of a stretch for Meg Ryan but she's sweet as ever. Hanks plays the romantic lead as well as he always does. Ross Malinger steals each scene as Jonah, the 8-year old who calls a radio station and laments that his daddy needs a new wife after Mommy died. Rosie O'Donnell wisecracks through the script as Annie's unlucky-in-love friend, and who can forget Bill Pullman as the allergy-stricken Walter? It's interesting to note that while Ryan and Hanks are the top billed actors in this movie, they actually spend only one scene of about 5 minutes together. Perhaps this is why I feel this movie is good, but I like the other two I mentioned in the "trilogy" much better. Shall I say it--this is an excellent late-night movie for when you're sleepless... nah. |
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