
And somehow, Walter is totally fine with all of this. That would be Walter, the guy who gets dumped in the middle of a Valentine’s Day dinner so his fiancée (Ryan) can run off and test her chemistry with some dude she doesn’t know (Hanks) on top of the Empire State Building. However, as we commemorate the movie’s 25th anniversary - Sleepless arrived in theaters on June 25, 1993, and went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of that year - it seems only fair to acknowledge the movie’s most troubling aspect and the character most deeply affected by it.

Sleepless in Seattle is great, and before you try to tell me it’s not as good as You’ve Got Mail, please hush, because you are wrong.


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Sleepless in Seattle is a wonderful, fundamentally hopeful movie that contains many lovely elements, including Tom Hanks at his Tom Hanks-iest Meg Ryan at the height of her rom-com powers a soundtrack filled with sweet standards the direction of Nora Ephron, who also co-wrote the screenplay and spikes its sentimentality with her trademark wry, observant humor a baby Gaby Hoffmann using social-media-ready abbreviations (“MFEO” for “made for each other”) well before social media was invented and Rita Wilson recounting the plot of An Affair to Remember as though an emotional dam inside of her has just burst.
