When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 47
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 4
Rob Reiner's touching, funny film set a new standard for romantic comedies, and he was ably abetted by the sharp interplay between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 2
Rob Reiner's touching, funny film set a new standard for romantic comedies, and he was ably abetted by the sharp interplay between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.
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Rob Reiner's romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as the title pair. The film opens with the two strangers, both newly graduated from the University of Chicago, share a car trip from Chicago to New York, where they are both going to make their way. During the trip, they discuss aspects of their characters and their lives, eventually deciding it is impossible for men and women to be "just friends." They arrive in New York and go their separate ways. They meet a
Jul 12, 1989 Wide
Oct 13, 1998
Columbia Pictures
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Cast
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Billy Crystal
Harry Burns -
Meg Ryan
Sally Albright -
Carrie Fisher
Marie -
Bruno Kirby
Jess -
Steven Ford
Joe -
Lisa Jane Persky
Alice -
Michelle Nicastro
Amanda -
Kuno Sponholz
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Charles Dugan
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Connie Sawyer
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Katherine Squire
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Al Christy
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Bernie Hern
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Frances Chaney
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Donna Hardy
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Jane Chung
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John Arceri
Christmas Tree Salesman -
Robert Alan Beuth
Man on Aisle -
David Burdick
9-Year-Old Boy -
Kyle T. Heffner
Gary -
Joseph Hunt
Waiter at Wedding -
Harley Jane Kozak
Helen -
Kimberley LaMarque
Waitress -
Franc Luz
Julian -
Gretchen Palmer
Stewardess -
Estelle Reiner
Older Woman Customer -
Tracy Reiner
Emily -
Joe Viviani
Judge -
Peter Day
Joke Teller at Wedding -
Stacey Katzin
Hostess -
Peter Pan
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Kevin Rooney
Ira -
Aldo Rossi
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Rose Wright
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All Critics (47) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (4) | DVD (26)
Can a man and a woman be friends without worrying about having sex? Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan spend a beguiling dozen years trying to figure it out.
Top CriticFans of Billy Crystal's amphibian qualities may be amused, but the rest of us have to contend with a slavish Woody Allen imitation.
Rob Reiner directs with deftness and sincerity, making the material seem more engaging than it is, at least until the plot machanics begin to unwind and the film starts to seem shapeless.
Reiner clearly likes his characters, and elicits sturdy performances from a proficient cast (Kirby and Fisher are especially fine as friends and confidants to the pair).
What Harry and Sally do -- the true focus of this often funny but amazingly hollow film -- is saunter through the romanticized lives of intelligent, successful, neurotic New Yorkers.
A ravishing, romantic lark brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit.
...a better-than-average romantic comedy that remains just as relevant now as it did in 1989...
Sally is special lightning-in-a-bottle stuff that every member of the production has spent precious years of their lives trying to recreate, but always failing miserably.
This is Ephron at her best.
Director Rob Reiner has a killer instinct for setting up jokes and punchlines, and is vastly aided by the performances and chemistry of Crystal and Ryan, as well as crisp supporting work from Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby.
Reiner's film breaks the romantic-comedy mold because it's not so much about Harry and Sally as it is about men and women.
What keeps the momentum going, despite the story's predictability, is the dialogue and the chemistry, which makes for a high-wire act.
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are terrific together in one of the best romantic comedies of the 1980s.
A classic romantic comedy.
Overrated nonsense about two people who would never date in real life.
Audience Reviews for When Harry Met Sally
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- Older Woman Customer: I'll have what she's having.
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- Jess: Marriages don't break up on account of infidelity. It's just a symptom that something else is wrong.
- Harry Burns: Oh, really? Well, that symptom is fucking my wife!
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- Harry Burns: Why don't you tell me the story of your life?
- Sally Albright: The story of my life?
- Harry Burns: We've got eighteen hours to kill before we hit New York.
- Sally Albright: The story of my life isn't even going to get us out of Chicago, I mean nothing's happened to me yet. That's why I'm going to New York.
- Harry Burns: So something can happen to you?
- Sally Albright: Yes.
- Harry Burns: Like what?
- Sally Albright: I can go into journalism school to become a reporter.
- Harry Burns: So you can write about things that happen to other people?
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- Older Woman Customer: I'll have what she's having.
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- Jess: I like saying its in the den its got a nice ring to it.
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- Jess: Emily is terrific.
- Harry Burns: Ya. Of course when I asked her where she was when Kennedy was shot she said 'Ted Kennedy was shot?'
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