(Nora Ephron, US 1993, 105 min., 35mm)
One Christmas Eve, eighteen months after his mother’s death, young Jonah (Ross Malinger) calls radio advice show You and Your Feelings because his Christmas wish is to help his father, Sam (Tom Hanks), find happiness again. A continent away, one of the listeners is Annie (Meg Ryan), a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. She writes a letter to Sam suggesting they meet at the top of the Empire State Building, unaware that her friend and editor, Becky (Rosie O’Donnell), sends it. Jonah reads the letter and is convinced that the two are right for each other, but Sam dismisses the distance they’d need to bridge. When Becky arranges a business trip to Seattle, perhaps their paths will cross for the first time in real life.
35mm print from Sony Pictures.
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