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Sleepless in Seattle

1993

Nora Ephron

Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger ...

6.0

42,255

Romance. Comedy It's Christmas Eve and radio talk show psychologist Marcia Fieldstone has asked her listening audience what they are wishing and dreaming of during this season of hope. A little boy, who is tuned in from Seattle calls in his wish, a new wife for his father who has been widowed for a year and a half. Meanwhile, all the way across the country, punching buttons on her car radio as she drives from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., Annie Reed ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Not since "Love Story" has there been a movie that so shrewdly and predictably manipulated the emotions for such entertaining effect."
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Sleepless in Seattle' is as ephemeral as a talk show, as contrived as the late show, and yet so warm and gentle I smiled the whole way through (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A movie to which director and co-writer Nora Ephron brought her terrific flair, wit and nous, although she propagates the terrifying fallacy that a widower makes a wonderful romantic catch (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[Eprhon] breaks your heart without making you feel like a jerk. As date movies go, that’s the ultimate in compliments."
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Don't get me wrong: I have no objection to shamelessly corny love stories that make you well up with tearful joy. I just don't like it when the movie does the welling up for you"
		Mark Salisbury Empire	"Not one of the cleverer rom-coms of this ilk... but sweet and touching nevertheless (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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