Synopsis
When Sam Baldwin's wife dies, he is left to bring up his eight-year-old son Jonah alone, and decides to move to Seattle to make a new start. On Christmas Eve, Jonah rings a radio phone-in with his Christmas wish to find a new wife for his dad. Meanwhile in Baltimore, journalist Annie Reed, who is having doubts about her own relationship, is listening in.
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Cast
- Tom HanksSam Baldwin
- Meg RyanAnnie Reed
- Bill PullmanWalter
- Ross MalingerJonah Baldwin
- Rosie O'DonnellBecky
- Gaby HoffmannJessica
- Rita WilsonSuzy
- Victor GarberGreg
- Rob ReinerJay
- Tom Riis FarrellRob
Recommendations
- 100
The New York Times
Not since "Love Story" has there been a movie that so shrewdly and predictably manipulated the emotions for such entertaining effect. - 100
Rolling Stone
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. - 90
Washington Post
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. - 90
Washington Post
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. - 80
Los Angeles Times
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
ReelViews
This is a dreamy, romantic fantasy whose mood falls somewhere between magic and reality. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
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). - 60
Chicago Reader
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.
