I recall all these qualities from the song being generally commonplace in most romantic ballads of the 1990s. This song felt so vibrant, beautifully performed, and demonstrated something as simple as love so convincingly that I thought this song was made for this movie. I was enraptured by it when I first heard it, primarily because of its soft, powerful, passionate, and melodically rich musical vibes and tones backed up by Dion and Griffith’s robust and equally longing voices. And this was before social media made it a thing.Īnd the other tune that stuck out to me was “When I Fall in Love”, performed brilliantly by Celine Dion and Clive Griffith. She had a slightly unusual point of view on things, and tended to spew out specific acronyms with hidden meanings.
And Jonah’s friend, Jessica, was incredibly quirky. Half the time, whenever Annie felt like she had her head in the clouds, Becky felt like her more grounded half, always trying to knock some sense into Annie about romantic shenanigans, especially those she had with her husband, Rick. Annie’s friend from work, Becky, was also a respectable friend. That, and his mannerisms felt pleasant to watch, too. Though not quite as interesting as he could’ve been, his constant allergies to everything gave him a comedic overtone which compensated for his lack of a decent personality. Walter, Annie’s fiancée, was hilariously hopeless.
Even though he was only eight years old, he tried his best to help his father through his grief by being his matchmaker, even if his methods of doing so were mainly his ideas of making it work for the two of them. Sam’s son, Jonah, felt like a tender, endearing, conscientious young boy. The rest of the characters felt equally light but had enough quirky charm and comedic overtones from each of them to make them more memorable. Throughout her odyssey, of course, she’s constantly confronted about the uncertainties that came with this pursuit, including whether she should’ve even bothered worrying about someone she never knew and who lived on the other side of the country. And finally, she decided to take a secret trip to Seattle in the hopes of finding and meeting Sam Baldwin in person. Then, she wanted to continue her pursuits, starting with hiring a secret photographer from Seattle to discreetly take some snapshots of Sam Baldwin-taken on one of his first dates, I might add. At first, she wanted to resolve it by writing a piece about radio talk-show hosts and their influence on other people’s social lives. Since then, Annie couldn’t have wrapped her head around why she felt so touched by Sam’s voice and tender personality despite her engagement with Walter. And when she heard Sam’s recollections of Maggie and their time together, she was utterly riveted. Fieldstone’s show and listening to the Baldwins’ side of the story. Then, on her drive back home, Annie flipped through car radios before tuning in to Dr. Not only that, but Walter was one of the more unfortunate people who were allergic to almost everything. She came all prepped for their forthcoming wedding even though she dismissed what her family called signs and foretelling of this union as just superstition. On the other side of the story, and the country, Annie Reed was a successful newspaper columnist who went about town feeling like the luckiest woman alive, thanks to her engagement with a man named Walter. Many of them sounded like they wanted to be Sam’s soulmate, whereas Jonah was savvier about which one woman he thought might be his and Sam’s best fit, even if Sam tried and failed to make it happen for himself. Not long after that, Sam and Jonah were hounded by tons of incoming mail from women who expressed their admiration of Sam’s forlorn trip to memory lane.
Jonah called her up and told her how much his father needed a new wife, leading to a heartfelt reminiscence from Sam about his time with Maggie and even when he knew that Maggie was the woman for him. Marcia Fieldstone, who hosted a radio program that offered therapeutic help to those who had social struggles. That didn’t last long, though, because a year and a half later, Jonah spoke to a radio doctor–on the air, no less–named Dr. So, out of remorse, Sam decided to move to Seattle in the hopes of isolating himself and Jonah from the grief that befell them ever since Maggie’s passing. On one side of the story, a young man named Sam Baldwin lived in Chicago with his son, 8-year-old Jonah, when his wife Maggie died.