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The role of Annie Reed was originally offered to Julia Roberts, who turned it down. Jonah doesn’t like his dad’s new girlfriend (or her laugh) and wants his dad to meet Annie instead. Even though this scene where he and Suzy’s husband Greg (Victor Garber) pretend to cry over the plot in The Dirty Dozen was totally improvised, it proved to be one of the most memorable. Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks’ real-life wife, played his sister Suzy in the movie. I guess women like to fantasize about having a man who could design their dream home for them! 🙂 Sam is an architect, which is one of the most popular “movie careers” for men in romantic movies. Sam (Hanks) is a widower with an 8-year old son named Jonah, who’s determined to find him a new wife.

#SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE QUOTES MOVIE#

The movie was written and directed by Nora Ephron, who has a knack for bringing beautiful houses to the big screen, like Bewitchedand You’ve Got Mail.Įphron was inspired by An Affair to Remember, the classic tear-jerker starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.

Still, Seattle boasts one of the country’s largest houseboat communities. The houseboat population peaked in the 1930s, at about 2,000, but has since dropped to around 500. Houseboats have been common here since the 1890s, when fishermen and dock workers in Elliott Bay built homes on rafts.ĭuring the Depression, low-income laborers took advantage of the geography and built or moved into tax-free houseboats. Okay, so the houses aren’t really boats because they never leave the dock, and they’re technically called floating homes, but that just doesn’t have the same ring as a houseboat, does it? The Houseboat from “Sleepless in Seattle” The real houseboat from the classic Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle went on the market recently, so I thought it would be fun to revisit it and the sets that were designed for the movie.

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