re: Sleepless in Seattle - Netflix

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Well then she's a classic peak-too-sooner with When Harry Met Sally. We've all seen it before...M. Night! John Singleton.

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Hardly, she wrote Silkwood and Heartburn (based on her marriage to Carl Bernstein) in the early 80s. My Blue Heaven, which i mentioned is outstanding was released a year after When Harry Met Sally. She also became a director so on top of writing Sleepless and You’ve got Mail she directed both along with several other movies including Michael, Bewitched and Julia and Julia. That’s a solid resume, hardly a one hit wonder. And while Sleepless in Seattle and Youve Got Mail are not as good as When Harry Met Sally both are good in their own right.

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she wrote Sleepless from another movie and then in Mail, rewrote Sleepless but added some Harry? Got it.

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This just shows how little you know
Sleepless in Seattle is a homage to An Affair to Remember. You’ve Got Mail is based on a movie called The Shop Around the Corner (with Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullivan and the Wizard of Oz)