‘Sleepless in Seattle’

Writer-director Nora Ephron’s 1993 release is a real charmer, a romantic comedy about an ultimate long-distance relationship. The “Sleepless” lovers--Tom Hanks as Sam, an insomniac Seattle widower, and Meg Ryan as Annie, a Baltimore journalist--not only live in different cities on different coasts, they don’t even know each other. They connect through a national call-in radio show. Ephron’s quick-quip take on talk radio makes her film contemporary, but she also returns us to the great days of American comedy. With Ross Malinger as Sam’s tug-at-our hearts son Jonah (TMC Tuesday at 11:45 a.m.; Showtime Saturday at 4 p.m.).