


it's doubtful Hanks has been the first actor to complain about that. Ethan Hawke, Keke Palmer and Scarlett Johansson are all massive stars today who started out as child actors. He's annoyed at having to work with a kid. Sleepless in Seattle Tom Hanks stars as Sam Baldwin, a widowed father who, thanks to the wiles of his worried son, becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. Perhaps that's why he was cranky?Īnd yet, even in the anecdotes shared by the NY Daily News ahead of the release of "I'll Have What She's Having," author Erin Carlson's Nora Ephron book, Tom Hanks doesn't come off like a monster. But his career was king of up and down before Sleepless in Seattle. : Sleepless in Seattle : Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Nora Ephron, Jeff Arch, David S. Yes, Hanks had Big, Dragnet and The Money Pit under his belt, as well. But prior to that, Hanks had been knocked off of his pedestal a few times thanks to the famously disastrous Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990, as well as Turner & Hooch and Punchline in the years before it. Yet Annie ends up with more than just a story in this popular romantic comedy. Where was Tom Hanks, on the path to becoming "Tom Hanks" when Sleepless in Seattle rolled around? Well, Hanks had a huge hit the year before with 1992's A League of Their Own. Coming in and saying, 'Why does the kid have so many good lines?' I had made enough movies to get smoked on a couple of occasions as well as thinking that I was a big shot and 'My voice must be heard.' Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Nora Ephron, based on a story by Jeff Arch. I was an extremely cranky actor at that time.
