My four picks: Sleepless in Seattle (1993), The American President (1995) and Enchanted (2007).
I don’t watch very many romance dramas on the big screen. I think it’s several things: when I’m watching something at the cinema, for the expense of the ticket, I need the film to be big, loud, noisy and filled with the kind of visuals I don’t see day-to-day. So, that’s why I’ll be willing to give the benefit of doubt for a mediocre fantasy or action-thriller movie and watch it at the theatre than for say a modern day romance film.
That said, there’s still been a couple of romantic dramas I’ve really like, though aside from Enchanted, all these I watched on DVD over the years.
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Sleepless in Seattle is an unusual romantic flick, if nothing else for that the two persons destined to fall in love actually meet each other only in the last 5 minutes of the film. The first 100 minutes is all set-up in other words. In Seattle lives Sam, the father of a young boy, who is privately still grieving for his late wife. His son, Jonah, thinks he needs a woman, so clandestinely succeeds in getting his father to answer a lonely hearts radio-show.
On the other side of the country in Baltimore is a journalist, Annie, who’s engaged but secretly feels that something is missing in her coming marriage. How they eventually meet is a fun ride, with lots of help and input from their friends and Jonah.
There’re three scenes that are both tender and heartwarming. Early on when Annie listens from across the country to the radio broadcast where Sam remembers his wife will bring tears to ya (*sniff*). Then the short scene where the two almost meet across the road, but is cut short when Annie is nearly run down by a vehicle LOL. And finally, their meeting on the top of the Empire State Building, engineered by Jonah who’s determined that Annie’s the right woman for his dad.
Continued in the next post.:)
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