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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

If I knew a woman who turned down a great guy for a dream fictitious guy, I'd renounce them. Thats why some people, male and female, remain single and lonely.

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.

A lonely father and his young son suffer greatly after his beloved wife dies, thus leaving a huge hole in their lives. Obviously, the one who is the most affected is the little one and as his father doesn't give any sign of trying to restart his life with another woman, he calls the local radio to ask for advice. His father also gets involved and ends up telling the entire public the story of his life. From there, their lives take an unexpected turn, the mailbox being flooded every day with mails from various women impressed by their story. All pretenders seem the same but the son spots something different and is determined to make his father meet that woman before he gets deeper in his new relation.It's a sad story but with well inserted comedy elements which manages to impress you with every single thing it does, with its great story, actors and subtle comedy but it quickly gets predictable while the ending doesn't do the love story much justice. It leaves you a bit disappointed, finishing so abruptly and not providing many details regarding what will happen next. Overall it's a great watch, especially with the loved ones, which had everything to be brilliant but its finale didn't receive as much attention as the rest of the movie.

What Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) was describing in my summary line above was the movie "An Affair to Remember". He could just as easily have been talking about this one, and I have no doubt "Sleepless in Seattle" will be referenced in another flick at some point in time. Maybe it already has been, who knows? But the funniest part of that conversation was when Sam and his buddy Greg (Victor Garber) got all misty eyed and weepy over the warm hearted 'tender' moments in "The Dirty Dozen". That just cracked me up.OK, so it's a chick flick and I'm not. Suspending all sorts of disbelief will get one through the movie, and you almost have to believe the young kid Jonah (Ross Malinger) was indeed in touch with cosmic forces to score a plane ticket to New York City without his Dad knowing about it - how did he manage that one? And as far as his insistence that Annie (Meg Ryan) was THE one for his Dad, that really was a million to one shot.I don't want to get too sarcastic about the picture, it was touching and uplifting in all the right spots, and I'd make a pretty healthy offer if my life could work out like that, but I'm not crossing my fingers. I'm glad at least that potential girlfriend Victoria (Barbara Garrick) got the Jonah heave-ho; can you imagine having to deal with that cackle the rest of your life? Best sight gag in the film, and I don't know if it was meant to be, but did you notice the poster on the wall behind Becky's (Rosie O'Donnell) desk - 'Farmer Shoots 6 Ft. Butterfly!'. Too bad they couldn't work that into the story line. Thumbs up for having Jimmy Durante's voice book-end the film with his takes on "As Time Goes By' and 'Make Someone Happy'. I can honestly say I saw him sing those for real on variety shows back in the day.