

He admits that it would be best if Jonah had a mother figure. Fieldstone about how he's been taking it a day at a time and that he's not sure he could ever love another woman. Fieldstone persuades Jonah to put Sam on the phone. Marcia Fieldstone, a clinical psychologist who hosts a national radio talk show, and he requests a new wife for his father. Sixteen months later Sam is still disconsolate and Jonah is worried. Sam decides he and Jonah should move to Seattle, Washington to make a fresh start. He counsels his 8 year old son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), that it's hard to understand why she had to die, warning his son that if a person starts asking that question, they just go crazy. Sam Baldwin, a Chicago architect, has lost his wife (Carey Lowell) to cancer.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. But Sam doesn't think he could have a relationship with someone who lives so far away. Jonah who has been going through the mail that his father has gotten ever since he was on the radio, sees the letter Annie wrote on a whim but didn't send it but her friend did. And once she gets off the plane, Sam who was in the airport to see someone off, sees her and can't keep his eyes off her and tries to follow her but couldn't catch her. Annie despite being engaged can't stop thinking of Sam and soon tries to find all she can about she even goes to Seattle to see him. He starts to talk about his wife and women over the country hear his tale and one woman Annie who lives in Baltimore can't help but fascinated by his tale. When Jonah sees how sad his father is, he calls a radio psychiatrist, who dubs him Sleepless in Seattle cause Jonah says he can't sleep. When Sam Baldwin's wife dies, he decides to move to Seattle with his son, Jonah. Will magic happen twice in Sam's life, and if so will it be with this unknown woman or Annie? However, old fashioned Sam wants his future love life to be based on meeting a woman the traditional way and he, in turn, becomes infatuated with an unknown woman he spots a few times in Seattle. Jonah is excited by one letter in particular from Baltimore and will do whatever he needs to to get his father and Annie together. Back in Seattle, Sam has received hundreds of letters from women wanting to meet him.

She even writes to Sam proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day.
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But Annie's relationship with her straight-laced fiancé Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movie An Affair to Remember (1957). Annie's infatuation with Sam's story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. Among the many women who hear Sam's story and fall in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore-based newspaper writer. On Christmas Eve, Sam (on Jonah's initiative) ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite Sam having not even contemplated dating again. Eighteen months later Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.Īfter his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death.
