The Someday Cinema Series will screen Sleepless in Seattle (1993) in honor of the film’s 25th anniversary, on Sunday, February 10, at 1 and 7 pm, at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street in Newtown.

Tickets are $3. The matinee will be shown with subtitles.

Sleepless in Seattle is an unusual romantic comedy reuniting Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in their second film pairing of four (so far), if only for two minutes on screen. The pair first shared the big screen in 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano.

Writing for The AV Club about Seattle, critic Caroline Siede wrote that while some rom-coms end in a kiss, “some end in a wedding, and some don’t offer a romantic happy ending at all, Sleepless In Seattle is something even more unique: a romantic comedy that ends with its central couple meeting for the very first time.”

Annie (Ryan) is pragmatic about love. Her relationship with Walter (Bill Pullman) makes sense in every way, except where it counts: in the heart. In her experience, romance only happens in fiction.

“You don’t want to be in love; you want to be in love in a movie,” observes her best friend, Becky (Rosie O’Donnell).

Annie is uncharacteristically drawn to the recently widowed Sam (Hanks), whose voice she hears on late-night talk radio, and is moved by his melancholy. Inspired by her favorite movie, An Affair to Remember, Annie writes a letter to Sam suggesting they meet at the top of the Empire State Building on Valentine’s Day.

After the death of his wife, Sam feels he has had his one great love and that it will never happen to him again. As writer/director Nora Ephron pointed out, however, “There’s no one who’s more romantic than a cynic.”

Meg Ryan graduated in 1979 from Bethel High School and began her acting career two years later, soon added to the cast of the soap opera “As the World Turns” (‘82). Paired with Billy Crystal, When Harry Met Sally (‘89) was her breakout role, earning Ryan a Golden Globe nomination.

Her third pairing with Tom Hanks was in You’ve Got Mail (‘98), a retelling of The Shop Around the Corner (1940), which will screen in December as part of the Someday Cinema Series.

As a luxury travel specialist, Kimberley Haught West of Cruise Planners is sponsoring Sleepless in Seattle because “it’s my true life in hindsight!” She began her career as an international flight attendant in 1985.

Newtown Cultural Arts Commission presents the Someday Cinema Series, which will screen The Great Escape (1963) on Sunday, March 10, at 1 and 7 pm. Follow Someday Cinema Series on Facebook, and visit tiny.cc/2019somedaycinema for details of the 2019 season. In case of inclement weather, check The Newtown Bee’s calendar page online, Facebook and Twitter pages, or visit edmondtownhall.org for last minute updates.