History Film / SleeplessInSeattle

* BoyMeetsGirl: Sam and Amy are perfect for each other -- but they've never met. The entire movie is about them ''not'' finding each other. They don't meet until the very end, when boy finally meets girl, ''after'' the girl believes she has lost him.
* BrattyHalfPint: Yeah, Jessica's Mom needs to have a talk with her about nearly every civility you can name. She rivals Nick Sitcom brats for pushiness.

* 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 Sam's ''sister'', come to town for a visit.

* AdultFear: Losing one's spouse.
** Sam's desperation to find Jonah after the latter sneaks off to New York City is wrenching.
--> "What if something happened to you? What if I couldn't get to you? What would I have done? You're my family. You're all I have."
** Your fiancee suddenly leaving you because she decided she found someone better.

* TheUnfairSex: Annie is seen committing acts (such as lying to obtain personal information, and improper use of security access) to locate more information on the Baldwins. If committed by a man, these acts could easily be a horror movie, but because Annie is an attractive woman, the movie pays scant attention to the ethical issues behind these actions.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Sam's reaction when he sees Annie.

%%* BagsOfLetters

%%* BlindDate
%%* BoyMeetsGirl

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%%* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Walter at the end.

%%* HotScoop: Annie's a journalist.

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

A 1993 SleeperHit[[labelnote:*]][[{{Pun}} We know]]: [[{{Rimshot}} Ba-dum tsshh]]![[/labelnote]] 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]]."

Creator/TomHanks is Sam Baldwin, a recently-widowed architect from Chicago who's trying to start life anew in Seattle with his eight-year-old son Jonah (Ross Malinger). Jonah's idea for helping his father find a new wife involves calling a radio talk show on Christmas Eve and putting Sam on the air. Annie Reed (Creator/MegRyan), a Baltimore news reporter who's engaged to the pleasant-but-bland Walter (Bill Pullman), happens to tune in to the show and falls in love with Sam. 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.

* ParentWithNewParamour: At one point, Sam dates a woman who Jonah hates.

%%* RaceForYourLove

The film is a bit non-traditional in that the romantic leads don't even meet [[spoiler: until the very end (except briefly earlier on)]].

A 1993 SleeperHit[[labelnote:*]][[{{Pun}} We know:]] [[{{Rimshot}} Ba-dum tsshh]]![[/labelnote]] 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]]."

A 1993 SleeperHit[[labelnote:*]][[{{Rimshot}} Ba-dum tsshh]]![[/labelnote]] 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]]."

Creator/TomHanks is Sam Baldwin, a recently-widowed architect from Chicago who's trying to start life anew in Seattle with his eight-year-old son Jonah (Ross Malinger). Jonah's idea for helping his father find a new wife involves calling a radio talk show on Christmas Eve and putting Sam on the air. Baltimore news reporter Annie Reed (Creator/MegRyan) happens to tune in when this happens, and she falls in love with Sam. 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.

Creator/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.

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