MOVIE REVIEW: SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)
This is another much-beloved film that I somehow failed to see until I was well into adulthood. I probably dismissed it in my younger days as just another chick flick. I was wrong to do so. This film lives up to all the praise and leaves you with a smile on your face. Sam (Tom Hanks) is a recently widowed man with an eight-year-old son named Jonah. The two of them just moved from Chicago to Seattle to start a new life together, but both are still carrying the weight of their recent loss. Jonah calls into a nationally syndicated radio show and shares about his father’s loss. After Sam begrudgingly shares his story of knowing when he and his deceased wife were meant to be, hearts melt across the country and Sam starts getting letters and offers to date countless women. One woman who hears Sam on the radio is Annie (Meg Ryan), whose eyes are opened by the experience that her own engagement may not be the right move. Her letter to Sam reaches Jonah, who thinks she might be the right one fo...
