The kid (Malinger) is cutely precocious as the script requires, Pullman is conventionally cast in the thankless Ralph Bellamy role (the shunted suitor) and O'Donnell is flat in the best friend role that has her delivering one-liners instead of conversations. Ryan, however, is an idiosyncratic taste. Hanks wonderfully underplays his sad sack role. Sleepless in Seattle is also saddled with a music track that, every step of the way, uses popular songs to mold our reactions to each scene.
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Structurally, that allows the movie to avoid any of the really tough dilemmas of love in the Nineties: like which one of them is going to forgo their career already established in one city and move cross-country to join the other or like why Hanks has been chosen to hear destiny's call twice in a lifetime, once with his now-dead wife and again with Ryan (the degree to which Ryan resembles his dead wife is a whole other can of worms). Thus, the entire movie serves as a set-up for their final consummation with destiny. Unexpectedly, Hanks and Ryan don't come together until the film's closing moments. While celebrating the lushly romantic, it also tweaks the tradition so that Sleepless in Seattle ends up something akin to a feature-length Taster's Choice commercial. At another level, Sleepless in Seattle purports to be a commentary on the classic depiction of love in the movies and, in this sense, it plays it both ways. Let's just say that I believe that romantic love is borne of many things but that “destiny” is not one of them. Once that person is found, he or she will fit so perfectly that all emotional struggle will cease and, of course, we will live happily ever after. Our only task is to find that person and fulfill our destiny. Its bedrock is the belief that there's always an “other” out there for each of us. Sleepless in Seattle is hopelessly romantic. It'll probably take another viewing before I am certain of what I'm feeling but, in the meantime, here's a little bit of what I'm thinking. Much of the tour is already sold out, including multiple shows in Decatur, GA, New York City, and Nashville.What is there to say about a picture hailed as “the date movie of the summer” that leaves you cold and running for the exit when all those around you are laughing their heads off? That you're having an off night? That your date is less than ideal? That you are right and the world is wrong? That the world is right and you're a mess? Vacillating between these conclusions, I haven't yet been able to pick the right one. Gundersen will celebrate the arrival of A Pillar of Salt with a solo headline tour, getting underway October 9 and 10 with a two-night residency at The Soiled Dove Underground in Denver, CO two- and three-night stands continue across the US through mid-December. WATCH LIVE VERSION OF “SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE”
LISTEN TO THE LIVE VERSION OF “SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE” And yet, like Lot’s wife, I can’t help looking back, the voice in my head taunting me with Springsteen’s ‘Glory Days.’ I loved Seattle. When Covid hit in early 2020, all the bars closed and I finally realized my time there was over. The culture of the place I fell in love with slowly disappeared. Tech companies moved in and priced out the artists. The few bands that ‘made it’ moved away, while the less fortunate gracefully bowed out when the insurmountable odds finally stacked too high. Over time, like all things, the city changed. There was a feeling that anything was possible. I lived out of my sleeping bag in garages, under tables, on couches, until finally moving into a place in the Queen Anne neighborhood with some friends. “I moved to Seattle in 2009,” Gundersen says a small-town kid, just 20 years old. A Pillar of Salt arrives via Cooking Vinyl on Friday, October 8 pre-orders are available now HERE. Noah Gundersen’s fifth solo LP and first new album in more than two years, A Pillar of Salt is heralded by today’s live version of the latest single, “Sleepless In Seattle,” available now at all digital platforms HERE.
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