![]() And who amongst us isn't rediscovering the telephone during this time, when even small distances seem yawning? Or the simple pleasure of a mailed letter? (Thank you to all the Post Office employees!) After a grueling three years during which the dark underbelly of nostalgia was used to prop up the worst aspects of this country's history and present, it's particularly heartening to be reminded that sometimes, the hallmarks of the past can continue to help us. Though we've moved on to new forms of connection, there's something sweet and appealing about the relative simplicity-even simplicity in a film with a plot as complex as this one's. The plot hinges on landlines and live radio shows, letters and, late in the film, a computer at a travel agency that's not password-protected. In the years since its release, even the experience of watching the 1993 film has become a journey into nostalgia. 'Notting Hill' Appreciates the Joy of Staying Home.In 'The Holiday,' Home Is Wherever You Are.Going To Extremes In 'My Best Friend's Wedding'.He tells his sister Becky (the divine Rita Wilson) and her husband (Victor Garber) about it over dinner. ![]() Anyway, when Sam finds out about Jonah's plan, Sam is vehemently in the "no ma'am" camp. But also, it's so romantic, so yes ma'am, with caveats. Annie takes PTO from her job as a journalist, flies across the country, and shows up at a stranger's house! No ma'am. Let's pause here to say that in terms of rom-com hijinks and poor decisions that turn out great, nothing beats Sleepless in Seattle. Annie heard the show and wrote to Sam, and Jonah wrote back posing as his father and asking Annie to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. Unbeknownst to Sam, his son Jonah (Ross Malinger) has provided a radio psychologist with Sam's address, after Jonah and Sam called into the show to talk about love, grief, and magic. Twice in passing, he sees Annie (Meg Ryan), who has just arrived in Seattle on a semi-quixotic journey to meet Sam. However, it requires some context: Just prior to the scene, Sam (Tom Hanks), a father who lost his wife a year and a half earlier, has just come back from the airport. But if pressed, we'd all likely come up with the same answer. So the use on a movie poster is quite obvious, which has also already been done for other movies, like for example » Moonlighting«.It's hard to pick the best scene in Sleepless in Seattle, a jewel of a film co-written and directed by Nora Ephron. The full moon is simply a popular motif and is the ideal way to express romance and longing. Also with reference to the title and the addressed topic of sleeplessness, this would have been an obvious approach. On the movie poster, you can see the full moon, just above Meg Ryan and we watched this movie for the 137th time to find out whether the full moon is also visible during the movie – wrong! Neither in the scene where Sam talks to the psychologist on the radio for the first time, while Annie listens in the car, nor in the closing scene in New York, and on the Empire State Building we can see the moonlight shining, although this would have certainly been a gain. Who doesn’t know this movie, a classic amongst romantic comedies? Shot in 1993, with Tom Hanks as the architect Sam Baldwin and Meg Ryan as the journalist Annie Reed, who do not know each other but are still able to find one another thanks to Sam’s son Jonah, who recognizes that Sam and Annie belong together and for that, he leaves no stone unturned.
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