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A decade ago, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were the magical movie couple, seemingly unable to do any wrong at the box-office. Now, Hanks’ son is hoping to recapture some of that late-Nineties gold.
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Meg Ryan began in television commercials and the soap opera As The World Turns before getting roles in feature films like Top Gun (1986, starring Tom Cruise) and Innerspace (1987). In 1989 she hit it big as Billy Crystal's co-star of When Harry Met Sally. Throughout the 1990s she appeared in a variety of movies and was sometimes dubbed "America's sweetheart" for her roles in romantic comedies such as 1993's Sleepless in Seattle and 1998's You've Got Mail (both with Tom Hanks). Her other movies include Courage Under Fire (1996, with Denzel Washington), Proof of Life (2000, with Russell Crowe) and Jane Campion's In the Cut (2003).
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In a twist of casting fate, Meg Ryan will play the mother of Colin Hanks. Yes, the real life son of Tom Hanks, Ryan's "You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle" soul mate. via AndPOP
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In 1989, Ryan had her breakthrough role as Sally Albright in Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally. The following year, she starred opposite Tom Hanks in Joe Versus the Volcano. Although the film received a lukewarm critical and commercial reception, it began an onscreen collaboration between Ryan and Hanks that would prove to be very successful in future films. Before she next appeared onscreen with Hanks, Ryan took an uncharacteristic turn towards the purely dramatic, playing Jim Morrison's drug-addicted wife Pamela in Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991). She received wide critical praise for her portrayal, proving that she was capable of extending her range beyond light comedy. She further demonstrated her capabilities in the dark 1993 drama Flesh and Bone.
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Ryan gained further recognition when she was cast as newspaper journalist Annie Reed in the Nora Ephron-helmed Sleepless in Seattle (1993), which was ... her second time costarring with Tom Hanks. Her amazing performance later won a 1998 American Comedy for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role). For the same role, she earned a Golden Globe and two MTV Movie nominations. She next became a Best Actress nominee at the Screen Actors Guild and MTV Movie for her dramatic turn as alcoholic wife and mother Alice Green in the drama When a Man Loves a Woman (1994). Ryan’s mind-blowing performances granted her a 1994 Woman of the Year award from Hasty Pudding Theatricals as well as a 1995 Crystal award from Women in Film Crystal.
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The film would be the first of three successful Nora Ephron films in which Ryan would be typecast as a bubbly, feisty, incurable romantic. Ryan then starred in The Doors, and Prelude to a Kiss. Both films were moderately successful. 1993 saw the release of the hugely successful romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle, which paired Ryan with leading man Tom Hanks. She made several attempts to break away from the romantic comedy ingenue stereotype, and garnered critical acclaim for her work in When a Man Loves a Woman in which she played an alcoholic and Courage Under Fire, portraying a captain in the Gulf War. Both films were substantial successes at the box office.
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