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O’Donnell had been a successful stand-up comic, but her movie career soared after that. Sleepless saw the largest opening gross for a rom-com at the time and became 1993’s fourth-highest-grossing release. TriStar Pictures postponed its release from March to June, hoping the film would serve as summer-blockbuster counterprogramming - the same strategy that TriStar’s sister studio, Columbia, had employed for When Harry Met Sally four years earlier. Together, the two movies made O’Donnell a star.Īlthough romantic comedies were thriving thanks to sensations like Moonstruck and Pretty Woman, Sleepless was seen as a sleeper hit. Even the way Becky holds Cheetos, her pinkie raised as if they’re fine dining, is amusing. Along a stacked ensemble that includes Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Victor Garber, and Gaby Hoffmann, she’s an MVP. Playing Becky, the sappy, wisecracking BFF to Ryan’s destiny-agnostic Baltimore Sun reporter, it was O’Donnell’s second role after 1992’s A League of Their Own. And yet Sleepless is also very much a fantasy itself, and a lovely one at that. The central credo of Sleepless in Seattle is best summed up in a line that Rosie O’Donnell says to Meg Ryan: “You don’t want to be in love you want to be in love in a movie.” Nora Ephron’s Oscar-nominated classic, released in 1993, doubles as a comment on the way Hollywood romance has perpetuated fantasies of what love looks like. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by TriStar Pictures
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