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...TITLE: SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE...
...however, that Sleepless in Seattle is too smart for its own good. For clever as it is conceptually, it violates the most basic rule of romantic- comedy construction. If boy doesn't meet girl, then the drama of boy losing girl and the final satisfaction of boy getting girl cannot happen. The complications in this movie are all logistical. They are never confrontational, as they so giddily were in the classic comedies of muddled love, the spirit of which co-writer and director Nora Ephron has said she wanted to recapture...
...egging him on, and Rosie O'Donnell as Ryan's newspaper pal. They are all given some chuckly lines to say, but no killers. Like everything else in this movie, they lack madness, and they fail to draw you out of yourself into a truly absorbing alternative reality. Mostly, Sleepless in Seattle leaves you feeling restless in the audience...
...what's needed here is a completely different recipe, With "Sleepless," all you get is leftovers...
...romantic pretensions, "Sleepless in Seattle" is, at heart, anti-romance. In this film, love and romance have little or nothing to do with intelligence, honesty, sharing or suffering...