QWhat is 'Sleepless in Seattle' about?
AWhen Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) loses his wife Maggie to cancer, his 8-year old son Jonah (Ross Malinger), concerned that Sam is still grieving after 18 months and a move from Chicago to Seattle, contacts a national radio talk show and asks the host to help him find a new mother. The response is so great that Sam's mailbox is filled with hundreds of women wanting to meet him, but the only one who passes Jonah's inspection is a letter from Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), a newspaper writer in Baltimore, Maryland, who offers to meet them on top the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day, just like in the movie An Affair to Remember (1957). Unfortunately, Sam prefers to meet women the old-fashioned, 'magical' way that worked for him and Maggie and has no interest in meeting this Annie Reed.
QIs 'Sleepless in Seattle' based on a book?
AThe screenplay for Sleepless in Seattle was written by American screenwriters David S. Ward and Jeff Arch along with the movie's director Nora Ephron. However, the film was inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember, in which a man and woman fall in love and plan to meet in six months on the Empire State Building in New York City. Clips from An Affair to Remember are shown in the movie, and the characters frequently discuss the film.
QWhat does the title mean?
AWhen Jonah and Sam speak with the talk show hostess, Dr Marcia Fieldstone (Caroline Aaron, it comes out that Sam is still having trouble sleeping at night, so Fieldstone refers to him as 'Sleepless in Seattle' rather than calling him by name.
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