Tom Hanks – Tribute

Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Rosie O’Donnell

Director: Nora Ephron

Producer: Gary Foster

Written by Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron and  David S. Ward.

Sam Baldwin, a Chicago architect, has lost his wife (Carey Lowell) to cancer. He and his young son Jonah move to Seattle, Washington to make a fresh start, but Sam is still disconsolate. On Christmas evening, Jonah calls into a national radio advice show and persuades his father to go on the air with him to talk about how much he misses his wife. Thousands of women around the country, touched by Sam’s story, send him letters. One letter is from Annie Reed, a journalist from Baltimore, Maryland, engaged to a nice but sneeze-prone man named Walter (Bill Pullman) who feels that there is something missing.

Meanwhile, Jonah, who has been working his way through the flood of mail, finds Annie’s missive and likes that it mentions the Baltimore Orioles. He tries to convince his father to go to New York City to meet her on Valentine’s Day, but Sam loses his temper and refuses. Sam begins to see a coworker, Victoria, who Jonah cannot bear because, among other things, she “acts like a ho” and “laughs like a hyena”. On the advice of a friend, he mails a letter to Annie saying to meet his father at the top of the Empire State Building on Valentine’s Day. At the airport, while waiting for Victoria, Sam sees Annie getting off the plane and is momentarily entranced.

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