![]() ![]() That’s not because I like Sleepless in Seattle. Interjection from the Boyfriend: It’s my favorite smash-hit romance set in Seattle. It possesses an enduring reputation as foundational for ’90s/’00s romantic comedy, and as a key transition point for the genre as a whole. ![]() When the subject of “media you’ve never experienced before” was brought up, Sleepless came immediately to mind as a piece of media that was both ultra-popular in its day ($126,680,884 domestic gross box office). It’s a point of pride–not many things are filmed in Seattle, so Sleepless in Seattle and the time they used hoses to make it look like it was raining even though there had been a drought that year and we were conserving water became a fairly popular bit of local lore, and lots of people know where that damn rich-person houseboat is. The other fact is the location of the gorgeous-ass, ridiculously-expensive-even-before-the-tech-boom houseboat where Tom Hanks’s Sam Baldwin and his son Jonah (Ross Malinger) live. There’s plaque at the counter where they sat now. Interjection from the Boyfriend: That happy hour is amazing, what are you talking about? One is that the diner Tom Hanks and Rob Reiner have lunch at in Pike Place Market is the Athenian, and they do pretty good happy hour. As a Seattlite, there are two facts that I seem to have picked up about this film via osmosis. ![]() “I Know Where That Houseboat Is!” At least it’s not the Space Needle again Our focus this week is Sleepless in Seattle, a 1993 romantic comedy directed and co-written by Nora Ephron and starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time. ![]()
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