[Movie Script]Sleepless in Seattle

	S L E E P L E S S   I N   S E A T T L E



by Jeff Arch

Rewritten: Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron

May 10, 1992

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	FADE IN:


	CLOSE ON SAM BALDWIN


A card: Chicago.
He's in his thirties.  His neck is pinched into a crisp
dress shirt and tie.  His expression is vacant, faraway.
A breeze blows but he doesn't react to it.  In the
distance the architecture of the Chicago skyline.
				 SAM



Mommy got sick and it happened
just like that and there was
nothing anybody would do.
(continued)
And pull back to reveal:
	EXT. CHICAGO - A GRAVESITE - DAY


Next to Sam is his son Jonah, age 9.  Sam's hand is on
his shoulder.  As the mourners go past and each takes a
turn shoveling a clod of dirt into an open grave --
				 SAM



If we start asking why we'll go
crazy.  So, rule number one.
We don't ask why.
							CUT TO:


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