![]() Like Ephron’s script for When Harry Met Sally, there is something of a lovely bittersweet hook with Sleepless in Seattle’s screenplay. READ MORE: Smallville 2×22 – ‘Calling’ – TV Rewind The same cannot be said of Sleepless in Seattle which has become something of an increasingly perennial favourite amongst romantic comedy fans and was even being referred to as something of a modern classic as soon as 1996’s The Cable Guy, admittedly a film that is as far away from a film like this as possible. That film was something of an oddity, met with respectable box office and reviews, but it’s strangely a film that’s fallen through the cracks when it comes to the collaborations between Hanks and Ryan. That honour belonged to Moonstruckwriter John Patrick Shanley’s Joe Versus the Volcano ![]() However, Sleepless in Seattle was not the first time Hanks and Ryan starred in the same film. They both shared a genre (romantic comedy) and they both shared the same writer and director (and it’s here that we say hello once again to the great Nora Ephron). Set The Tape presents Rom-Com Rewind, a series looking at the history of the genre and how it has developed over the course of nearly a hundred years of movie history.Īsk anyone about the films that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan starred in together and chances are two will come to mind because they are two that anyone remembers. The romantic comedy has proved an enduring genre for the silver screen, from the screwball comedy of the 30s to its peak in the 90s, and resurgent popularity in the 2010s.
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