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A kind and thoughtful man, Sam dotes on his mischievous son (Ross Malinger), but he’s stuck in depression because he’s convinced he’ll never love anyone the way he loved his wife. Hanks, who has mostly played jocular wise guys, reveals a surprising gentleness here. In Sleepless in Seattle, Ephron is less a filmmaker than a matchmaker. Annie is essentially defined by the fact that she needs a man like Sam. And what makes Annie right for Sam? As played by the blankly enthusiastic Meg Ryan, she’s nice, and well, that’s all she is. It is one of the least appealing aspects of Sleepless in Seattle that even as Sam’s plaintive romanticism is supposed to have touched Annie in a tender and personal way, it also marks him in the film’s eyes as an official Great Catch. So do a lot of other women (his radio segment elicits thousands of letters). And so, tentatively at first, then with greater urgency, she tries to meet Sam. She has never known a passion that deep, certainly not with her fianceé, a dullard named Walter (Bill Pullman). Annie, a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, is driving back from her family’s home one Christmas when she tunes in to a call-in talk show and hears Sam, a Seattle architect, going on in a sad, quiet voice about how much he loved his wife, and how badly he misses her. Tom Hanks’ Sam and Meg Ryan’s Annie meet - in spirit, at least - on the radio. Sleepless in Seattle is about a couple of lonely hearts living on opposite sides of the country. She gets the corn (or an abstract approximation of it) without the smolder. What Ephron misses about the classic romantic weepers is their delicately sexy sparkle.

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When Harry Met Sally… was like one of Woody Allen’s urban valentines turned into a TV series, and Sleepless lacks even that movie’s intense peppering of jokes - it’s like a ’50s tearjerker synthesized by microchip. It would seem that Nora Ephron thinks in clichés: She mixes old ones from Hollywood with new ones from pop-psych therapy.

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