The casting of Hanks and Ryan seals the deal and while on paper we probably should have a problem with a lot of what is going on here, in the end we don’t because – and I cannot emphasise this enough – it’s Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
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Ephron is a savvy writer and director and knows how to get the audience on board with a narrative such as this. Think about it too much and it falls apart and the same can be said of so many films that the genre has given us. Of course, if one looked at it with such a microscopic lens then the film falls apart and as this is very much part and parcel of the romantic comedy genre we just have to accept the fairy tale approach to the story like we do with so many other romantic comedies. READ MORE: Zack Snyder’s Justice League – 5 Justice League Books To Check Out One might end up viewing the film and Ryan’s character as somewhat toxic and unhealthy given that she falls in love easily with Hanks character just by listening to him on the radio talking about being a widower and ends up dumping the very lovely Bill Pullman to get a happy ending with Hanks and effectively becomes a cross-country stalker in order to find out who he is. This being a 90s film, telephone calls, rewatching old movies on television, and radio talk shows all factor as elements that try to bring our two leads together, although whether or not the film is displaying emotionally healthy characters might be the subject of some debate. Awash in references to An Affair to Remember, it’s a Nora Ephron romantic comedy that positively bleeds with affection for romantic Hollywood films, and uses its myriad references to one of the all-time greats which starred Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as a way to foreshadow its own fairy tale ending atop the Empire State Building. Based upon a story by Jeff Arch, it’s a film where the poster and the advertising sells it on a film featuring two of Hollywood’s biggest stars but who end up sharing little screen time throughout, not meeting up fully until the very end of the film. Like Ephron’s script for When Harry Met Sally, there is something of a lovely bittersweet hook with Sleepless in Seattle’s screenplay.
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READ MORE: Smallville 2×22 – ‘Calling’ – TV Rewind The same cannot be said of Sleepless in Seattle which has become something of an increasingly perennial favourite amongst romantic comedy fans and was even being referred to as something of a modern classic as soon as 1996’s The Cable Guy, admittedly a film that is as far away from a film like this as possible. That film was something of an oddity, met with respectable box office and reviews, but it’s strangely a film that’s fallen through the cracks when it comes to the collaborations between Hanks and Ryan. That honour belonged to Moonstruckwriter John Patrick Shanley’s Joe Versus the Volcano However, Sleepless in Seattle was not the first time Hanks and Ryan starred in the same film. They both shared a genre (romantic comedy) and they both shared the same writer and director (and it’s here that we say hello once again to the great Nora Ephron).
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Set The Tape presents Rom-Com Rewind, a series looking at the history of the genre and how it has developed over the course of nearly a hundred years of movie history.Īsk anyone about the films that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan starred in together and chances are two will come to mind because they are two that anyone remembers. The romantic comedy has proved an enduring genre for the silver screen, from the screwball comedy of the 30s to its peak in the 90s, and resurgent popularity in the 2010s.
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