Word: malingerer
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They don't meet cute. As a matter of fact, they don't meet at all until the end of the movie. She hears him on a radio shrink's call-in program, into which he's been plugged by his eight-year-old son Jonah (Ross Malinger), who thinks...
To compensate, she creates, as it were, sub-conflicts. Annie's fiance (Bill Pullman) is shown to be, quite literally, a drip (allergies make his nose run); the woman Sam takes up with (Barbara Garrick) has a grating laugh. The movie condescends to both of them rather unfunnily. And, anyway...
Here's the plot; try not to get lost. Wife of husband (Tom Hanks) dies. Husband (now Widower) is sad, and moves to Seattle with young son. Son (Ross Malinger), worried about lonely father, calls a radio call-in show. Widower gets on the phone and pours out his heart...
"Why does everything take so long," wails Georgia, one of the four friends, near the film's end, and the audience feels the same way. Throughout, scenes malinger like the last couple to leave a cocktail party. You know what they're talking about, where they're headed, and the...