Sleepless in Seattle

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?

A crowd-pleasing romantic comedy that earned mostly warm notices for Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's performances, though critics split sharply over whether Nora Ephron's script is a knowing, affectionate riff on classic Hollywood romance or simply a slick, cliché-ridden machine engineered to manufacture feeling. The leads drew near-universal affection; the film around them was far more contested.