As Suzy tries to explain the plot of the 1957 romance to her brother and her husband, she’s moved to tears just thinking about it. When Suzy and her husband Greg (Victor Garber) visit Sam in Seattle, Suzy finds out that Annie (Meg Ryan) wants to meet Sam at the top of the Empire State Building, just like Deborah Kerr’s and Cary Grant’s characters planned to do in An Affair to Remember. Wilson appeared in the 1993 film as Suzy, the sister of Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks).

In the new city, Baldwin becomes the subject of a female reporters romantic wiles, who starts to stalk and woo him despite the fact that he is already in another relationship. But if we had to choose our top five moments from the classic rom-com, they would probably include a line that one of the movie’s stars, Rita Wilson, just revealed wasn’t originally part of the script. The real houseboat from the classic Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle went on the market recently, so I thought it would be fun to revisit it and the sets that were designed for the movie. Sleepless in Seattle is the story of a widower called Baldwin (Hanks) who moves to Seattle with his son Jonah (Malinger) after his wife dies of cancer. It would be difficult to pick our all-time favorite scene from Sleepless in Seattle, which marks its 25th anniversary today, June 25. Here are 15 facts about the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan classic that will help you sleep better at night. Sleepless in Seattle, the sophomore directorial effort from Nora Ephron, is a light romantic comedy inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember.Tom Hanks stars as widower and single father Sam.

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