![]() ![]() This is contrivance at the highest level, built in the script together with many references to the movie “An affair to remember”. Jonah tries to push Sam to meet Annie on top of the Empire State Building on Valentine’s Day. Then there is a letter which makes unbearable Jonah instantly like Annie. But that would have been way too dull for Ephron. They do not exchange words, even if she could have waited for him and introduced herself in a normal way. What I do not buy is the artificiality of all the events presented after that.Īnnie is a journalist and manages to be sent to Seattle to meet Sam, but somehow manages not to do so, even if she sees him twice (and he sees her too, managing to fell in love at “first sight”). People fall in love for lots of different reasons, so I could buy Annie falling for Sam and trying to meet him. Many criticized this idea of falling in love, which however is not the worst point of the movie. Just listening to his story Annie fells for him. Sam is a young widower, living in Seattle with his son Jonah. ![]() One night, Annie listens to Sam’s phone call to a radio station. This must be a terrible crime in Ephron’s book, since Walter is treated with zero respect. This time, her character is called Annie and she lives in Baltimore.Īnnie is engaged to Walter, whose main defect is being dull. She could easily be a slightly older version of Sally, with a worse haircut. This “old classic” signed Nora Ephron is a good example of everything that can go wrong.īuilt on the success of “When Harry met Sally”, we have cute heroine Meg Ryan playing one of her romantic leads roles, inclusive of tics and weirdness that were her trademark. Romantic comedies are very difficult to get right. ![]()
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