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Sleepless in Seattle

Posted on December 31, 2007July 15, 2020 by Village Vidiot

  “Sleepless in Seattle,” 31 December 2007 (1993), DVD.  We must be the last folks in the country to see this Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan light-Nora Ephron comic drama about a boy who calls up a radio shrink because his dad (mom dies in scene 1) needs to find someone and can’t act. Ryan, of course, is hooking up with a nice guy but the wrong guy. Nice, excessively romantic, you’ll know it because it’s a magical love story that’s fundamentally wrong but so what. Not a big deal. Hanks and Ryan are fine, the kids are precocious as ever (yuck!) and the supporting cast (except Rosie O’Donnell who just seems to be faking it) is good. Strangely, I most enjoyed Bill Pullman as Ryan’s initial love interest. He at least develops into someone much better than she deserves

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