History Film / SleeplessInSeattle

SleeperHit[[labelnote:*]][[{{Rimshot}} Ba-dum tsshh]]![[/labelnote]] from the early [[TheNineties Nineties]] which infused a fluffy RomanticComedy with a degree of PostModernism. As director/co-writer Creator/NoraEphron put it, "Our dream was to make a movie about how movies screw up your brain about love and then if we did a good job, [[StartXToStopX we would become one of the movies that screwed up people's brains about love forever]]."

* BagsOfLetters

* BlindDate
* BoyMeetsGirl

* DeadpanSnarker: Sam

* FatBestFriend: Becky to Annie
* FunctionalGenreSavvy: Annie, played with and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].
* FunWithAcronyms: Jessica and Jonah engage in this.
* TheGhost: Becky's boyfriend Rick.

* HotScoop: Annie's a journalist.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Walter at the end.

* MaybeEverAfter
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Walter's allergies.
* MissingMom

* PostModernism
* RaceForYourLove

* YouWatchTooMuchX: See Becky's quote at the top of the page.

* TheMountainsOfIllinois: Seattle has no subway.

-->'''Annie''': ''[watching ''AnAffairToRemember'']'' Now that was when people ''knew'' how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was...\\

* MistakenForRomance: Annie sees Jonah and Sam embracing a woman and assumes she's Sam's new girlfriend (it doesn't help that her hairstyle is identical to Victoria's, whom she saw in a photograph). It turns out she's Sams ''sister'', come to town for a visit.

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Walter's allergies.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: DREAMS COME TRUE's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9w1_61Ch5A "Winter Song"]] is the theme song for the movie in Japan, although the lyrics are in English.
* AnnoyingLaugh /TheHyena: That horrendously annoying woman Sam dates. Jonah even says she sounds like a hyena.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Jonah explains his far-too-advanced-for-his-age knowledge of sex by shrugging and saying, "Jed's got cable". Nowadays, every household in America has cable, even if it's just the basic channels, but at the time this movie was made, cable was a luxury item that not everyone had.

* DistantPrologue: The opening scenes establish the death of Sam's wife and his decision to move to Seattle. After the intro, the time stamp informs the viewer that it's one year later.

TomHanks is Sam Baldwin, a widower grieving over his wife's death. His cutie son Jonah's idea of helping him involves calling a radio talk show and putting his dad on the air. Annie Reed (MegRyan) happens to tune in when this happens and she falls in love with him. Sam and Annie then spend the rest of the movie trying to find reasons not to meet. You can guess what happens at the end.

* HeldGaze: The Anniversary Edition [=DVD=] cover shows TomHanks and MegRyan looking into each other's eyes like this because it is the quintessential "romantic" pose.

SleeperHit[[labelnote:*]][[{{Rimshot}} Ba-dum tsshh]]![[/labelnote]] from the early [[TheNineties Nineties]] which infused a fluffy RomanticComedy with a degree of PostModernism. As director/co-writer Nora Ephron put it, "Our dream was to make a movie about how movies screw up your brain about love and then if we did a good job, [[StartXToStopX we would become one of the movies that screwed up people's brains about love forever]]."

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: DREAMS COME TRUE's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9w1_61Ch5A "Winter Song"]] is the theme song for the movie ''SleeplessInSeattle'' in Japan, although the lyrics are in English.

* HeyItsThatGuy /HeyItsThatVoice: Jonah was (the first voice of) [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} T.J. Detweiler]].

* TheMountainsOfIllinois: Seattle has no subway.

* HeyItsThatGuy /HeyItsThatVoice: Jonah was (the first voice of) [[{{Recess}} T.J. Detweiler]].

* ManlyTears: Played for laughs, when Sam and Greg tear up while reminiscing about ''TheDirtyDozen''.

'''Becky''': A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

The film is a bit nontraditional in that the romantic leads don't even meet [[spoiler: until the very end]].

* BigWhat: Spoken by Jessica's mother when she and Sam ask Jessica where Jonah went and she says, "He's on his way to New York."

* DisposableFiance: Walter, possibly the most disposable of all disposable fiances.

* HeldGaze: On the Anniversary Edition [=DVD=] cover shows TomHanks and MegRyan looking into each other's eyes like this because it is the quintessential "romantic" pose.

* ManlyTears: played for laughs, when Sam and Greg tear up while reminiscing about ''TheDirtyDozen''.

* StalkerWithACrush: Annie looks Sam up on the high-tech 90's computer and pretty much stalks him through the city.

SleeperHit[[labelnote]]*[[{{Rimshot}} Ba-dum tsshh]]![[/labelnote]] from the early [[TheNineties Nineties]] which infused a fluffy RomanticComedy with a degree of PostModernism. As director/co-writer Nora Ephron put it, "Our dream was to make a movie about how movies screw up your brain about love and then if we did a good job, [[StartXToStopX we would become one of the movies that screwed up people's brains about love forever]]."

SleeperHit from the early [[TheNineties Nineties]] which infused a fluffy RomanticComedy with a degree of PostModernism. As director/co-writer Nora Ephron put it, "Our dream was to make a movie about how movies screw up your brain about love and then if we did a good job, [[StartXToStopX we would become one of the movies that screwed up people's brains about love forever]]."