Rotten
Mostly, Sleepless in Seattle leaves you feeling restless in the audience.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Sleepless in Seattle
What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you?
1993 · 1h 45m · PG
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Nora Ephron
Overview
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness soon leads to a meeting with a young female journalist, who has flown to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his father.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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75%
Tomatometer
Rotten
If one can ignore all the straining for lightness here, this is watchable enough, though hardly anything resembling a tearjerker.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Ephron and fellow writers Jeff Arch and David S. Ward have conspired to make Sleepless in Seattle as purposefully schmaltzy as one can imagine, in a manner that's almost cynical.
Brian Lowry, Variety
Fresh
It's easily the hippest, frankest and funniest date movie around.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle is a feather-light romantic comedy about two lovers who meet for the first time in the last reel. It's a stunt, but it's a stunt that works far more effectively than anybody in his right mind has reason to expect.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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