There are those who will claim that "Sleepless in Seattle" is too corny, with sugar-coated cuteness filling in for the lack of a strong plot. And, while they have a point, there's something that the cynics are missing -- it's meant to be this way. By its own admission, this film is intended as a throwback to the screen romances of the past (An Affair to Remember in particular, which is cited numerous times, and …showed first 75 words of 1369 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1369 total…in our "American culture" it's just a little bit different in the way people have to get to it. We now have a cultural force that makes each person work more and pay more attention to our day to day life; things don't just come with good luck. It's not just up to destiny having the final outcome in one's life, that is nothing more than a myth explaining the unexplained, things don't just happen.