Daily Dialogue — June 17, 2018

Jonah Baldwin: If you get a new wife, I guess you’ll get to have sex with her, huh?
Sam Baldwin: I certainly hope so.
Jonah Baldwin: Will she scratch up your back?
Sam Baldwin: [shocked] What?
Jonah Baldwin: In the movies, women are always scratching up the men’s back and screaming and stuff when they’re having sex.
Sam Baldwin: How do you know all this?
Jonah Baldwin: Jessica’s got cable.
Sam Baldwin: Oh.

— Sleepless in Seattle (1994), screenplay by Nora Ephron and David S. Ward and Jeff Arch, story by Jeff Arch

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Nora Ephron.

Trivia: Nora Ephron: When Meg Ryan’s character is in the kitchen in the middle of the night listening to the ‘best of’ radio callers, the caller ‘Disappointed in Denver’ is voiced by Ephron.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The relationship between Jonah (Ross Malinger) and Sam (Tom Hanks) is wonderful in this movie, such as this exchange.