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How others will see it. Sleepless in Seattle is proud to be a "chick flick." The script even contains this phrase, in reference to Cary Grant's An Affair to Remember (1957) which was actually based on an earlier unmentioned film, Love Affair (1939). All of this means that men have little to look forward to except for the occasional close-up of Meg Ryan.
Women, on the other hand, can ooh and aah over Jonah, Hank's adorable and selfless tyke, and revel in the best friend dialogue between Rosie O'Donnell and Meg Ryan. They can also size-up the marital potential of Tom Hanks in his prime. Bill Pullman is also heart-warming, for those disposed to see him that way. He has the nicest break-up in history with Ryan, accepting the end of their lengthy engagement as if he had instead learned that his one dollar lottery ticket wouldn't pay off. Well, there'll be another drawing next week, and maybe I'll win Jennifer Aniston.
How I felt about it. The message of Sleepless in Seattle is that we are all destined to become happily married to the perfect spouse. It helps, though, if you are perfect to begin with. Hanks and Ryan are the perfect, nice beings we all want to claim as our own. They're the prom king and queen prodded to dance together as the curtain is brought down. Rosie O'Donnell, who is plump, Bill Pullman, who has a neurosis, and Barbara Garrick, who has a grating laugh, aren't perfect enough to merit a relationship. Maybe they'll have better luck in their next romantic movie.
The romantic nonsense of a one true love is usually shattered by junior high school, but grown-ups can continue to play at this game as long as they realize that the likes of Hanks and Ryan are out of their league. But Jonah is too young even for junior high, and his amateur match-making skills are concentrated on the one woman who writes that Brooks Robinson (who retired a decade before Jonah's birth) is the greatest third baseman ever. Well, he did field better than Alex Rodriguez.
Hanks and Ryan aren't the only ones with a romance. Little Jonah also gets a girlfriend, who is equally precocious and darling. Instead of torturing insects or watching bad television, like kids usually do, Jonah and his girlfriend plot to pair Hanks up with the allegedly baseball-loving Ryan. They are even presumptuous enough to demand privacy from Hanks, presumably so they can play doctor when not doing things like spinning ancient Beatles records backwards on their laps, or using the parents' computer account to buy pricey airline tickets.