![]() ![]() Happily Married: All dialogue makes it obvious that Sam and his wife were this.Door-Closes Ending: After Annie, Sam, and Jonah get on the elevator, the doors close and we cut to the outside of the Empire State Building.After the intro, the time stamp informs the viewer that it's 18 months later. ![]() Distant Prologue: The opening scenes establish the death of Sam's wife and his decision to move to Seattle.Disposable Fiancé: Walter, possibly the most disposable of all disposable fiancés.Dead Person Conversation: Maggie appears to Sam on New Year's Eve to share a drink with him.Creator Cameo: When Annie is in the kitchen in the middle of the night listening to the 'best of' radio callers, the caller 'Disappointed in Denver' is voiced by director Nora Ephron.She rivals Nick Sitcom brats for pushiness. Bratty Half-Pint: Yeah, Jessica's mom needs to have a talk with her about nearly every civility you can name.They don't meet until the very end, when boy finally meets girl, after the girl believes she has lost him. The entire movie is about them not finding each other. Boy Meets Girl: Sam and Annie are perfect for each other - but they've never met.Bookends: The movie starts with Sam burying his wife and ends with him meeting the woman who will likely be his second.Blind Date: Has a montage of blind dates Sam endures.Big "WHAT?!": Spoken by Jessica's mother when she and Sam ask Jessica where Jonah went and she says, "He's on his way to New York".Bags of Letters: After announcing how hard it is dealing with the death of his wife, Sam receives thousands of letters from around the country and one of them is from the girl who he will eventually fall in love with.This either requires Annie managing to guess where Sam and Jonah are headed and drive at improbable speeds, or have an amphibious rental car. Artistic License – Geography: Annie manages to follow Sam and Jonah from Lake Union to Alki Beach despite them being in a boat while she's in a car.Annoying Laugh / The Hyena: That horrendously annoying woman Sam dates.Alternative Foreign Theme Song: DREAMS COME TRUE's "Winter Song" is the theme song for the movie in Japan, although the lyrics are in English.Adorably Precocious Child: Jonah is absolutely adorable, and way too smart for his age.Sam and Annie then spend the rest of the movie trying to find reasons not to meet. Annie Reed (Ryan), a Baltimore news reporter who's engaged to the pleasant-but-bland Walter (Bill Pullman), happens to tune in to the show and falls in love with Sam. Jonah's idea for helping his father find a new wife involves calling a radio talk show on Christmas Eve and putting Sam on the air. Hanks is Sam Baldwin, a recently-widowed architect from Chicago who's trying to start life anew in Seattle with his eight-year-old son Jonah (Ross Malinger). As director/co-writer Nora Ephron put it, "Our dream was to make a movie about how movies screw up your brain about love and then if we did a good job, we would become one of the movies that screwed up people's brains about love forever." The film stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, in their second screen pairing (preceded by Joe Versus the Volcano and followed by You've Got Mail). You want to be in love in a movie.Ī 1993 Sleeper Hit * We know: Ba-dum tsshh! which infused a fluffy Romantic Comedy with a degree of Postmodernism. It was.īecky: A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. nothing could separate them because they knew. Annie: Now that was when people knew how to be in love. ![]()
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