SENSELESS IN SEATTLE

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)
dir: Nora Ephron

SENSELESS IN SEATTLE
MAD #324, January 1994
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) is a recently widowed architect who makes a new start of things after his wife dies, moving from Chicago to Seattle. On the other side of the country in Baltimore, Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) is engaged to Walter (Bill Pullman) but having doubts about their relationship (Food allergies and sleep apnea! What a dud!) His architect partner is Jay (Rob Reiner) and her friend at her newspaper is Becky (Rosie O'Donnell). Sam's son Jonah (Ross Malinger) phones a call-in radio psychologist on his behalf and Annie hears the show.

Sam is getting on with his life and his started seeing Victoria (Barbara Garrick) who Jonah can't stand. Jonah tries wants to set Sam up with the proposal letters he's been getting since calling into the radio show, particularly one from Annie, which Sam dismisses because they're all long distance and it's just a little boy trying to set him up. Annie uses her newspaper connections to find out more about him and track him down.

Annie follows Sam through the country as he goes on vacations. Jonah tries to set them up by having them meet atop the Empire State Building like An Affair to Remember, which he dismisses again, but Jonah flies out on his own anyway. Sam, in Seattle, notices Jonah is missing, finds out he's in New York, goes to get him, and meets Annie.

Cameo appearance here by Macaulay Culkin, whose Home Alone 2 was also about a child walking the streets of New York unsupervised.