Sleepless in Seattle Ratings

Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nora Ephron. Based on a story by Jeff Arch, it starsTom Hanks as Sam Baldwin and Meg Ryan as Annie Reed.

The film was inspired by An Affair to Remember and used both its theme song and clips from the film in critical scenes. The climactic meeting at the top of the Empire State Building is a reference to a reunion between Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember that fails to happen because the Kerr character is struck by a car while en route. At one point, some of the characters discuss Affair, with Sam commenting that it sounds like a "chick movie."

Plot:

Sam Baldwin, a Chicago architect, has lost his wife (Carey Lowell) to cancer. He and his young son Jonah move to Seattle, Washington to make a fresh start, but Sam is still disconsolate. On Christmas evening, Jonah calls into a national radio advice show and persuades his father to go on the air with him to talk about how much he misses his wife. Thousands of women around the country, touched by Sam's story, send him letters. One letter is from Annie Reed, a journalist from Baltimore, Maryland, engaged to a nice but sneeze-prone man named Walter (Bill Pullman) who feels that there is something missing.

Meanwhile, Jonah, who has been working his way through the flood ...

Cast: Tom Hanks, Rosie O'Donnell, Frances Conroy, Matt Smith, Sidney Armus, Bill Pullman, La Tanya Richardson, Michael Badalucco, Barbara Garrick, Tom Riis Farrell, Caroline Aaron, Julie Janney, Gaby Hoffmann, Tom McGowan, Meg Ryan, Rita Wilson, Rob Reiner, Sarah Trigger, Brian McConnachie, Dana Ivey, John Boylan, David Hyde Pierce, Donald J. Lee, Jr., Calvin Trillin, Donald Lee, Victor Garber, Juliet Taylor, Philip Levy, Ross Malinger, Carey Lowell, Hannah Cox, Rich Hawkins, Jeff Mazzola, Tom Tammi, Diane Sokolow, Linda Wallem, Victor Morris, Kevin O'Morrison, Le Chance DuRand

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Release Date: June 25, 1993

MPAA Rating: PG

Screen Writer: Larry Atlas

Runtime: 1hr 45min