The Empire State building is for lovers! Sleepless in Seattle has captivated audiences — and hopeless romantics everywhere — for nearly three decades. The Nora Ephron-directed film, which premiered in 1993, has stood the test of time thanks to its heartwarming story of a widowed father, Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) and his son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), trying to get back on their feet. after moving to Seattle where they live on a houseboat. After losing his mother, Jonah realizes that his father is still very upset, so he calls into a late night radio show asking for advice and getting a date with his father. Listeners around the world fall in love with Jonah and Sam, who eventually bares his soul on the show, including a reporter named Annie Reed (Meg Ryan). Although she is engaged, Annie quickly realizes that Sam is the right man for her. Annie’s lightbulb moment comes while she’s having dinner with her fiancé (Bill Pullman) in New York City on New Year’s Eve. She eventually leaves him and heads to the Empire State Building where Jonah and Sam are waiting. The scene, which was inspired by An Affair to Remember, has since become a moment fans have tried to recreate in their own lives. Mindy Kaling, for example, paid homage to romantic comedy in the 2014 finale of her hit comedy The Mindy Project with the main characters ending up atop the iconic building. “I grew up in the days of the great romantic comedy movies of the 90s and I wasn’t a snob for any of them either,” Kaling told Audible in December 2019 of his love for comedies. romantic ones, especially those of Ephron. “It could be While You Were Sleeping, with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, or Insomnia in Seattle. I really love the genre and always thought it was an underrated genre. The Late Night actress added, “I feel like people talk about rom-coms they like and say they’re their guilty pleasures. But I really don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I just don’t believe in ‘to the pleasures. And I often think people underestimate them because women love rom-coms so much and it didn’t seem as intellectual or anything like that, but I love them. Scroll down to see what the cast of Sleepless in Seattle has been up to since 1993:
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