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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.
Fans 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.
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.
When Harry Met Sally... is a sweet, embraceable comedy, a moonstruck Manhattan romance that, like a Gershwin tune, turns the sighs and glances, the spats and reconciliations, all the cliches of the heart into infectious melody.
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.
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 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.
a perfectly paced and slickly edited romp of a romance--one that revealed the secrets of what men and women really think
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