Her husband, Greg (Victor Garber) teams up with Sam for a very funny response.
In a clever conceit, all females in this film are obsessed with An Affair to Remember, including an Empire State Building Security guard’s wife and Sam’s sister, Suzy (Rita Wilson), who can’t even summarize the plot without breaking into tears. After some portentous dialogue between the impossibly handsome and tanned Grant and Deborah Kerr, Annie laments, “Those were the days when people knew how to be in love…. The most movie-obsessed character, by far, is Annie (Meg Ryan), whom we see in an early scene watching An Affair To Remember (1957), starring the aforementioned Grant, on TV with her best friend, Becky (Rosie O’Donnell). Jonah tells him to be careful: “In movies, women are always scratching up the man’s back and screaming.”Īll told, the words “movie” or “movies” appear fifteen times in Ephron’s screenplay. His ten-year-old son, Jonah, asks whether Sam will have sex with the swatch-woman Sam, in a rookie move, says yes. Sam (Tom Hanks), a recently widowed architect, thinks about inviting a potential date over to look at swatches, but then muses that Cary Grant wouldn’t be caught dead looking at swatches with a woman. The characters habitually measure their own lives against what they’ve seen onscreen. Rosie O’Donell and Meg Ryan bonding over “An Affair to Remember”Īll movies are about movies, but Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle (1993) is about movies more than most.