Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepless in Seattle (1993) is a romantic comedy from TriStar Pictures you can watch online on iFILM. Directed and co-written by Nora Ephron, the film stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and earned over $227 million worldwide on a $21 million budget.

Eight-year-old Jonah calls a late-night radio show and tells the host his father Sam — a widower who moved to Seattle after his wife's death — has forgotten how to be happy. Across the country, journalist Annie Reed hears the broadcast by chance. She is already engaged. She has never seen Sam. Still, she starts writing letters she never sends and making plans that have no logical endpoint.

Ephron structured the film around An Affair to Remember (1957) not as a background joke but as a spine — both characters quote it, and the whole story builds toward one specific address in New York. Hanks and Ryan spend almost the entire film apart, which is exactly what makes their eventual meeting land the way it does. Watch Sleepless in Seattle (1993) online on iFILM.