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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

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Reviews Counted:47

Fresh:43

Rotten:4

Average Rating:7.8/10

Consensus: 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.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... tracks a star-crossed pair as they repeatedly drift apart and meet again over a span of 13 years and gradually fall madly, deeply, passionately into friendship, a friendship... WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... tracks a star-crossed pair as they repeatedly drift apart and meet again over a span of 13 years and gradually fall madly, deeply, passionately into friendship, a friendship ever teetering on the edge of love. Harry meets Sally when they share a car ride to New York City upon graduation from the University of Chicago. A few minutes into the trip, the conversation between womanizing, neurotic Harry (Billy Crystal) and driven, equally neurotic Sally (Meg Ryan) becomes heatedly contentious. The question arises: Can a man and a woman be just friends? Harry contends this proposition is impossible, that sex will always come along to screw up the friendship. Sally is aghast and disagrees, proclaiming the idea a distinct possibility. The two part ways rather acrimoniously in New York but before long meet again and eventually decide to indeed be friends. As life's mysterious coincidences pull Harry and Sally closer together, they share mystical, tender moments, confess secrets to each other, console each other, attend major holidays together, and do all the other things couples traditionally do. The question then reemerges: Can Harry and Sally remain mere friends, or will they--must they--fall in love? And can anyone forget Ryan's classic faking-it scene in Katz's Deli? [More]

Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby

Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, Lisa Jane Persky, Estelle Reiner

Director: Rob Reiner

Director: Rob Reiner
Screenwriter: Nora Ephron

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05/18/04
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

Much valued in some corners, but found downright painful in this one.

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10/19/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

No review available.

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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05/21/03
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/20/03
Caryn James
Caryn James
New York Times

No review available.

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02/09/03
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

No review available.

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02/03/03
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

No review available.

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12/30/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The best romantic comedy ever made.

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12/12/02
Gerry Shamray
Gerry Shamray
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

Meg Ryan-Billy Crystal romantic comedy is hard not to like.

Full Review Source: Netflix | comment Comment
11/07/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

This film is pure fun from start to end, and it made me want to be in love again.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Provides plenty of material for a private seminar on the education of your sentiments about love, friendship, and sexuality.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
09/01/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

When Harry Met Sally... not only presents a love story in a realistic and relatable fashion, it manages to be a hilarious movie, with some of the best lines, dialogues, and exchanges to be found in any movie.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
07/12/02
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

A ravishing, romantic lark brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
05/12/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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The writing and direction plays with the [romantic comedy] form and your expectations alike throughout, and with such good performances the film makes for a deliciously prickly ride with laugh-out-loud moments and scenes that resonate through the story.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
04/17/01
William Gallagher
William Gallagher
BBC

takes its time in exploring the long, sometimes bumpy, and often comical process by which two people might discover they are in love

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
02/27/01
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

We have to give When Harry Met Sally... credit for what it did: Make one of the few romance films that bears any kind of truth without also being a dark comedy.

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02/13/01
James Brundage
James Brundage
Filmcritic.com

When Harry Met Sally . . . is an adult romantic comedy in a time when we don't get very many, and it has one thing going for it that gives it an enormous boost -- it's very funny.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

A sweet, cheerfully vulgar, and often very funny old-fashioned romantic comedy.

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01/01/00
David Hepworth
David Hepworth
Empire Magazine

...consistently funny, with writing of the 'In a city of 8 million people, I have to run into my ex-wife!' calibre.

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01/01/00
David N. Butterworth
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