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Sleepless in Seattle

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Sleepless in Seattle reviews
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9.6 User Score:

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Based on 16 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance

Written by: Nora Ephron
David S. Ward
Jeff Arch (also story)

Directed by: Nora Ephron

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 25, 1993
DVD: October 7, 2003

Running Time: 105 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG

Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rosie O'Donnell, Gaby Hoffmann, Victor Garber, and Rita Wilson

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in Nora Ephron's wonderfully romantic comedy about two people drawn together by destiny. (Sony Pictures)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

The New York Times Vincent Canby

Not since "Love Story" has there been a movie that so shrewdly and predictably manipulated the emotions for such entertaining effect.

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100

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Ephron homes in on what's been missing in movies and in life: ardor, longing and smart talk about the screwed-up notions that pass for love.

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100

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Consequently, Ephron is forced to shape and integrate the twin halves of the picture, and she does a splendid job - the intercutting is always fluid and never mechanical. Better yet, the script keeps surprising us, setting up stock situations and then pulling away from a stock treatment.

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90

Washington Post Hal Hinson

In Sleepless, though, we're as stuck on these people as the director is, and it puts us in a receptive, forgiving mood. We fall -- and I think a lot of people will fall hard for this movie -- even though we know we shouldn't.

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90

Washington Post Joe Brown

There are no surprises in Sleepless, and the audience is ahead of the characters every step of the way. But people seem to like it that way. And, hey, it works like a charm.

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80

Los Angeles Times Michael Wilmington

We don't make those kind of Lubitsch-Wilder-Capra movies anymore, because it's hard to kid about what goes on behind bedroom walls when the bedroom doors have long since been flung open. So Ephron invents strategies to keep us, teased, outside the boudoir. [25 Jun 1993 Pg.F1]

75

TV Guide Staff(not credited)

Superbly acted, beautifully photographed, and resolutely warm and fuzzy, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE is a romantic treat.

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75

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This is a dreamy, romantic fantasy whose mood falls somewhere between magic and reality.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Ephron develops this story with all of the heartfelt sincerity of a 1950s tearjerker (indeed, the movie's characters spend a lot of time watching "An Affair to Remember" and using it as their romantic compass).

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70

Variety Brian Lowry

Yet for all the enjoyable flourishes, and there are many, Ephron keeps pausing to remind us, through various contrivances, that this is a movie, making it hard for anyone to really get lost in the story.

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60

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Nora Ephron, who wrote and directed this, repeatedly alludes to the 1957 "An Affair to Remember" as her principal point of reference, yet at no point does she indicate any awareness of what makes that tragicomic love story sublime and this one merely cutesy.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

The movie is so prefab, so plastically aware of being ''corny,'' ''romantic,'' and ''old-fashioned,'' that it feels programmed to make you fall in love with it.

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50

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

Yet, when it all clicks, Ephron is able to make the familiar sparkle anew. [25 Jun 1993 Pg. 01.D]

50

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

The result is sweet and moody, and richly photographed by Sven Nykvist, but you can't help feeling shortchanged; Hanks and Ryan have quick wits, and funny faces to match—they should be striking sparks off each other, not mooching around waiting for something to happen.

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50

Time Richard Schickel

For clever as it is conceptually, it violates the most basic rule of romantic- comedy construction. If boy doesn't meet girl, then the drama of boy losing girl and the final satisfaction of boy getting girl cannot happen.

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40

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

While celebrating the lushly romantic, it also tweaks the tradition so that Sleepless in Seattle ends up something akin to a feature-length Taster's Choice commercial.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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