SEATTLE — Seems like nine out of ten locals had something to do with Sleepless In Seattle. Here are just a few of their stories.
"I had an agent at the time," said Ethan Newberry. "I was a kid actor with big dreams."
Newberry, who was 11 years old when he made his big screen debut as an extra in the 1993 film, spent about one second on screen behind Tom Hanks in a scene shot at Pike Place Market.
"It is because of me that scene went off flawlessly," joked Newberry. "There is zero doubt."
He nearly passed out in his heavy winter wardrobe, as they shot the cold weather scene during a summer heat wave.
"Just baking," Newberry remembered.
Tiger Budbill was the Mariner Moose mascot at the time.
Budbill said, "25 years later I can report that Tom Hanks laughed at one of my jokes."
He probably laughed at a few of them as they shared a green room.
"Right behind home plate at the Kingdome," Budbill said.
Hanks would chill by watching games from a secret perch beneath the seats.
Budbill wonders if fans had any clue that a famous movie star was just beneath their feet.
"Hey, did you know that Tom Hanks was sitting right below you?" he said.
Before actress Rosie O'Donnell stepped into her scenes, stand-in Meg Woods Dunwiddie was there first.
"Everything that Rosie did, I did before," Woods Dunwiddie said.
She got to watch O'Donnell and Meg Ryan amuse each other, especially in one particular scene where their characters are watching a movie together on the couch.
"They're eating and they're talking," Woods Dunwiddie said. "They laughed so much. There were so many takes in that one."
Best of all, she got paid to be there.
"A hundred bucks a day and a nice, warm meal. That was great," she recalled.
In her brief appearance in Sleepless, actress Tamera Plank Camp knew how to play a flight attendant pretty well, because she was one in real life.
"Maybe that helped," she conceded.
She filmed several scenes. Unfortunately, the one that made the cut failed to reveal her face.
"It was beautiful makeup, by the way," Plank Camp laughed.
And sisters Sabrina Rinderle and Tara Espinoza didn't star in the film. But their houseboat did.
Rinderle said, "A movie producer left a note on our dad's door."
Following the movie's release, they had to handle their home's newfound fame.
"So if you're walking around in your pajamas," Rinderle remembered, "you're waving at all these tourists coming through and boats coming by."
It was the unexpected fallout from an unexpectedly classic movie.
