akgonen60 I thought the movie wasnt that bad i was reading other revews and kinda understand what there saying but in my point of view i thought it wasnt that bad or it could have ben the superstar actress and actor in the movie that made it seem special but either way 7/10

Saurabh Agrawal I rate movies on imdb quite often but very rarely do I review them. This movie was the most ridiculous romantic movie I've ever seen and it forced me to vent my frustration here. It insults the way I understand love. Its not a love story. Its nothing. Its just a story of a stupid child falling in love with a woman coz' her favorite baseball player is the same as his Dad's favorite baseball player. Now, my review has spoilers, but please do read it and save yourself the frustration of going through the movie.Picture this: Meg ryan falls in love with Tom hanks just by listening to his sob story on radio about how much he loved his deceased wife and writes him a love letter. In fact, thousands of women write him a love letter after listening to his sob story (Really, are women that desperate? Which planet is Tom Hanks living on?).Now, if you somehow convince yourself to believe that it is possible for a girl to fall in love like that, now picture this: The kid reads all the letters including Meg Ryan's and immediately decides that Meg Ryan is destined to be his new mom. Now what is so magical about this letter? We don't know. All we know is that a)Meg Ryan has not written a letter like this to a stranger before. b) She writes something about magic. c) She tells Tom hanks to meet her at Empire State on Valentines Day. c) She mentions her favorite baseball player and hey stranger, I love you only if he is your favorite too. Otherwise, don't bother. Apart from that we just don;t know what was written in the letter that made the child go mad about Meg Ryan. Now, 99/100 times, characters would read such letters on screen to let the audience know its contents. But here, Meg Ryan doesn't read it out loud. The kid doesn't read it out loud. Tom Hanks literally 'blah, blah, blahed' it. Why don't they read it out loud for us? I'll tell you why. Coz' even the writer/director couldn't fathom what a stranger woman could write in a letter that could make Tom's kid going mad about her look justifiable.Now, although the kid is madly in love with her after reading the letter, Tom Hanks is not impressed at all. Like I said, he literally 'blah, blah, blahed' it. However, his kid practically blackmails him into meeting her at Empire State. And just to make sure that him holding her hand and falling in love with her instantly doesn't look farcical, the director tries to justify Hank's actions by establishing a 'connection' between the two. It involves him checking her out once at the airport (Men will be men! They all check out beautiful girls all the time. Didn't know that amounts to 'connection') and saying hello to her once on the street and BAM!! There is obviously a connection. They are made for eachother.Now, that's not all. Both Tom and Meg are dating someone at the time. And they are both perfect. But in order to make them look like obvious dumping material, they are reduced to caricatures. Meg's fiance is allergic to everything and sneezes a lot. Obviously, he deserves to be dumped. SO WHAT, if he loves you and downsized her mother's ring for you? Tom's girlfriend laughs like hyena (Although, I felt her laugh wasn't even that bad. I mean it wasn't Janice bad. Friends' fans would know what I'm talking about). But obviously, its enough evidence to dump her, My Lord! The catch here is that Tom Hanks doesn't even feel that way about her. Its the kid who hates her. I wonder what the kid would have done if Meg Ryan too had a weird laugh like that.All right. Rant over

2karl- Christmass is a magical time when anything is possible can happen. And for Annie reed ( Meg Ryan) , a down to earth newspaper reporter, it's just about to, Whilst driving home to her fiance's house on Christmas eve , she hears a radio show that changes her life . 8 year old Jonah is worried about his dad who has just lost his wife, and calls the show agony aunt, persuaded onto the phone, Jonah's dad Sam ( Tom Hanks ) tells of his love for his dead wife and how their time together was pure magical . Annie is so touched by his heartfelt story. that she becomes determined to find him. But there is a problem Sam's in Seattle and she is in Baltimore and they both don't know each other exist.

Yugi Muto Sleepless in Seattle is difficult for me to review. For the most part, I like this movie but for whatever reason I can't seem to bring myself to love it. It's somewhere between good and okay for me. I think it's to do with the idea of love this movie presents. It makes love to be somewhat of a fantasy (okay so that doesn't sound like a bad thing but stick with me for a moment). So Annie (portrayed by the lovely Meg Ryan) listens to the radio one day and hears a guy's story (said guy portrayed by Tom Hanks) about his wife dying and how he's been feeling lonely since then, unable to get back on his feet to start dating again. She begins to think that this guy sounds really sweet, she just can't stop thinking about him and it's evident that in her mind, she begins to play him up to be her Prince Charming. It's her perfect love, everything she wants, the only problem...she's never actually met the guy and I think this is where my problem stems from. You've probably heard of love being blind, well this movie plays with that idea and the idea of love at first sight...or sound/thought/whatever. Anyway, here's my fundamental issue with the movie and why I can't bring myself to love this movie. It deals with the idea of being in love in a movie which is actually mentioned in my favourite line of the movie "you don't want to be in love, you want to be in love in a movie." How true those words are for a lot of people and even for me. The idea of that perfect person makes you fall for them because you picture them to be exactly what you want them to be and that's where my problem lies, because as much as I love the idea, it's not one I believe in. To me, love is about loving someone no matter what, accepting their flaws. Not everyone is perfect and although this movie recognises that, it's not something that is dealt with (and if it was and I missed it, then it wasn't in a way that was satisfactory to me since I didn't notice it). Sleepless in Seattle is about the idea that love is blind, it can happen at any moment, at any any time and with anyone. That's how I interpret it. However, it never explores anything beyond that. It's almost like a fairy tale and maybe that was the point of it, but for whatever reason I wasn't satisfied. It only looks at the idea of romance but never explores it since you never really get to see the two leads together properly. Yet for some reason, I find myself wanting the two leads to meet despite Meg Ryan's character feeling like a stalker and when they do meet, I'm disappointed because it ends without us ever seeing them together as a couple or even as friends for that matter. Is it a romantic movie? Yes, in fact it's very romantic since as I said, it plays on the idea of blind love but at the same time, the script is written in such a way that it makes me question everything and leaves me with an ambivalent feeling about the movie. I want to love it because the idea of love being blind is great but I can't because I don't believe in such a thing or at the very least, the movie wasn't executed in such a way that made me want to believe it. I strongly believe that true love, be it in a movie or in real life, is when two people know each other and without a shadow of a doubt, love them despite everything that might drive them crazy about the other.