In a clever conceit, all females in this film are obsessed with An Affair to Remember, including an Empire State Building Security guard’s wife and Sam’s sister, Suzy (Rita Wilson), who can’t even summarize the plot without breaking into tears.
After some portentous dialogue between the impossibly handsome and tanned Grant and Deborah Kerr, Annie laments, “Those were the days when people knew how to be in love….
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The most movie-obsessed character, by far, is Annie (Meg Ryan), whom we see in an early scene watching An Affair To Remember (1957), starring the aforementioned Grant, on TV with her best friend, Becky (Rosie O’Donnell). Jonah tells him to be careful: “In movies, women are always scratching up the man’s back and screaming.”Īll told, the words “movie” or “movies” appear fifteen times in Ephron’s screenplay. His ten-year-old son, Jonah, asks whether Sam will have sex with the swatch-woman Sam, in a rookie move, says yes. Sam (Tom Hanks), a recently widowed architect, thinks about inviting a potential date over to look at swatches, but then muses that Cary Grant wouldn’t be caught dead looking at swatches with a woman. The characters habitually measure their own lives against what they’ve seen onscreen. “Of all the films I’ve scored, I’ve never been the predominant piano player on the score, but that is me.Rosie O’Donell and Meg Ryan bonding over “An Affair to Remember”Īll movies are about movies, but Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle (1993) is about movies more than most. “It helps us as the audience understand that these two are made for each other even before they know it,” Shaiman said. The score, which comprises mainly of a rhythm section, guitar, bass and drums, is one he describes as both “gentle and assertive.” With that note, Shaiman, who scored Ephron’s “Sleepless in Seattle,” thought of “A Wink and a Smile,” a song he co-wrote with Ramsey McLean.Īnd so with the “Bros” score, Shaiman says, “I thought of my song for that and paraphrased it a bit.” Director Nicholas Stoller and Eichner also wanted it to be contemporary enough, while “wanting it to sound like a Nora Ephron film.” Shaiman says he didn’t want the score to be period-specific, so he took a timeless approach. Who else could score this movie?'” Shaiman shared. “I had his email, and when I read about this movie, I sent an email, ‘I’m the king of rom-com scores and I’m gayer than a goose. He got the job after writing to producer Judd Apatow. The composer says, “I think it was 10 minutes long,” so, he worked on consolidating the ideas in a way that musically flowed.Īside from working on the song which will be put forward for best original song awards consideration by Universal, Shaiman was tasked with composing the film’s score. The lyrics harken to their relationship, but comments on LGBTQ+ romance as divergent from traditional love. When Bobby performs for Aaron, he belts a country-esque ballad in the style of the musician. In the film, Aaron is a country music fan who cites Garth Brooks as his one of his favorite artists.
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