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Sleepless in Seattle
TriStar Pictures

Sleepless in Seattle reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 71 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.5 out of 10
based on 16 reviews
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MPAA 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)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Nora Ephron
David S. Ward
Jeff Arch (also story)
 
DIRECTED BY: Nora Ephron  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 7, 2003 
Video: January 30, 2001 
Theatrical: June 25, 1993 
RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

Nominated, Best Music (Original Song) and Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen), 66th Annual Academy Awards

What The Critics Said

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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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