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 enlarge | Director: Nora Ephron
Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rosie O'donnell
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  179 reviews
Sales Rank: 732
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD01632D
ISBN: 1404939415
UPC: 043396016323
EAN: 9781404939417
ASIN: B0000AOV4I
Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 1993
Release Date: October 7, 2003
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 Exceedingly Amiable Rom-Com Offers Hanks, Ryan and a Plethora of Intentional Hollywood Contrivances December 29, 2007
Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Between the excessively repeated TV showings of this 1993 concoction and the 1998 You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan seem like they have made a hundred movies together when in fact, they only made three (the one people tend to forget about is the quirky and wholly original 1990 Joe Versus the Volcano). They have an easy chemistry when it comes to mainstream romantic comedy, but the irony of this film is that their characters don't really meet until the end. Nora Ephron, who directed and co-wrote the screenplay with David S. Ward (The Sting), Jeff Arch and her sister Delia, regales in the predictable contrivances of the plot which hinge repetitively on old-fashioned Hollywood conventions like fate and destiny. She pays particular tribute to Leo McCarey's An Affair to Remember, which in itself is an inferior remake of his 1939 classic, Love Affair. It is the presumption that all women love the 1957 remake so much that they will be taken in by this contemporary throwback. It turns out she was right.
If you don't know already, the story follows too-good-to-be-true Chicago architect Sam Baldwin and his eight-year-old Jonah to Seattle as he attempts to start his life over to forget his recently deceased wife. Concerned that his father has been grieving too long, Jonah calls into a national radio program hosted by an unctuous therapist named Dr. Marcia Fieldstone. She convinces Jonah to get Sam to talk about his feelings of loneliness, which causes an avalanche of letters from smitten women across the country. One is Annie Reed, a Baltimore-based journalist who is already getting cold feet about her recent engagement to allergy-prone Walter. So enthralled by Sam's description of "magic", she writes a letter to him only to throw it away. Her best friend and managing editor Becky, not a fan of Walter, mails the letter, and Jonah immediately recognizes Annie to be the one for his dad. Meantime, Sam has started dating a decorator named Victoria, whose hyena laugh is an understandable sore point for Jonah. There is no need to go further since the rest of the plot is inevitable including a wish-fulfillment finale on the top of the Empire State Building that serves as a what-if variation on the previous cinematic incarnations.
Neither Hanks nor Ryan is particularly stretched here, though both manage to exude the charm to get away with the basic silliness of the storyline. His character's ailments and boring attempts at wit aside, Bill Pullman is almost too likable in the Ralph Bellamy role of Walter, so much so that his open-hearted naivete becomes concerning toward the end. Rob Reiner has a couple of amusing scenes as Hanks' business partner, while Rosie O'Donnell is both funny and uncharacteristically restrained as Becky (she claimed later that her role model for Becky was Bette Midler). A talented child actor, Ross Malinger manages to play Jonah with a minimum of irritable precociousness. As Sam's sister-in-law, Hanks' real-life wife Rita Wilson gets a funny scene to herself when she tearfully describes the ending of An Affair to Remember to eye-rolling Sam and her husband, who respond by recounting The Dirty Dozen in a brotherly crying jag. There hardly seems a valid reason for the 2003 10th Anniversary DVD given how often it plays on TV, but it does offer an interesting commentary track by the Ephron sisters (recorded separately). Also included are a disposable making-of featurette from the time of the film's original release, an execrable Celine Dion music video of "When I Fall in Love" (the song played over the closing credits), and several trailers for films of that period. This is a contrived but still likeable film.
great romantic movie December 7, 2007
Jaber Soud Al Asfar
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this movie is great..tom hanks is a best movie star ever to me..so where you find tom hanks in a movie..it should be great
 Soulmate anyone? November 13, 2007
Ealhswitha Channon (Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is so romantic and makes you want to follow your heart and throw caution to the wind and submit yourself to your destiny. Mind you, please keep in mind it is just a movie! But that is what you will feel at the end of it! It is totally worth adding to your collection if you are a romantic at heart and love happy endings, that have dignified characters which warms your heart. Also, if you love While you were Sleeping, you will love this movie. Bill Pullman is in both but a total contrast in this movie to While you were sleeping but he is still lovely. You've got mail - forget it - this is the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie that you must see.
LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY! November 11, 2007
CLINT BRONSON (las vegas,NV.)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Tom Hanks opens the briefcase of belly laughs in this romantic comedy.
Meg Ryan is equally as good as the wondering girl with the big heart
You really get the feel of these two.....WAIT A MINUTE!
What the HELL is happening? I am gone for 11 days and now I'm
doing a review on this? THIS!?!
HELP MY AMAZON BROS/SIS HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!
The Quintessential Chick-Flick November 7, 2007
R. Pearce (Woodbridge, VA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think when you look up "chick-flick" in the dictionary, you will find a picture of this DVD. It is a sweet story, and I REALLY enjoyed watching it, both with and without my wife, but I could not help but imagine how this theme could have been so different with just a tiny, minor change. Just think, if Tom Hanks had been the reporter that traveled out to Seattle to look HER up, he would all to easily have been imagined as a stalker/slasher. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but why is it when a woman does this it is sweet and endearing, and when a man does it, it is frightening and ominous? Little bit of a disconnect there, I think. Having said all that, I will get off my soapbox and say that I loved the movie and the sentimentality that it represented. There is nothing better than two people falling in love at the end and getting together.
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