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It Had To Be You.
Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) meet each other after graduating from college. Both are moving to New York City and Harry needs a ride there. Harry learns of Sally through a mutual friend and the mutual friend gets them to ride together across the country to New York City. Before leaving, the two had never met. What follows is a rode trip that firmly embeds each of them in the heart and mind of the other. After getting to New York, they part ways and don't see each other for years. Then a random encounter at the airport brings them together again. Fast-forward five more years and another random encounter brings them together in a bookstore. From there they become friends, then the best of friends, and eventually lovers. The last part of the movie deals with whether two people who are sleeping together can still remain friends.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY was directed by Rob Reiner and like most of the films from the first half of his career as a director it is a gem. The screenplay was written by Nora Ephron and earned her an Oscar nomination and much of the dialogue in the film is pure gold. Due both to Reiner's direction and Ephron's writing, there is a lot of truthful insights scattered throughout WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. Men and women do think differently at times and the way the two sexes view the world is explored fairly accurately throughout most of the movie. For example, Sally doesn't see herself as a high-maintenance woman, but she really is and as Harry points out high-maintenance women who don't think they are high-maintenance are some of the most difficult women to deal with.

Crystal and Ryan give two of the most memorable, if not meaningful roles of their careers thus far. The movie also offers strong supporting performances by Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby as two friends Harry and Sally try to set each other up with, but who end up falling in love and getting married themselves.

Despite all of the positives there's one thing about WHEN HARRY MET SALLY that bothers me to this day: the sex. Granted that hardly anything is ever shown, but there is a great deal of talk about it. In fact, that's the whole premise of the movie: can a man and a woman be friends without having sex? I admit that I am "old fashioned" in many of my ways, but in my opinion WHEN HARRY MET SALLY would have been an even more powerful, emotional, and truthful movie if Harry and Sally hadn't slept together until after they were married. They have this decade long friendship without having sex, then boom: they have sex and the movie is pretty much over. It seems almost like a cop-out. Still, the movie does a fairly decent examination of the relationships between a man and woman who truly love each other. Plus it's got some great lines and scenes and it has a happy ending. Too bad it couldn't have been a perfect ending.

wonderful story, well-written, wrong actor
Great romantic comedy. Though I don't like Ryan and Crystal as a couple, I find him rather annoying. However that didn't stop me from watching it over and over. totally worth the watch.


Before Harry married Sally
Before Harry Burns(Billy Crystal) married on-and-off sweetheart Sally Albright(Meg Ryan),they were college students. However,before Harry married Sally,Harry married and got divorced from another woman. Harry once believed that a man and a woman could not be friends platonically. What a bunch of bull! Giving moral support are Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher(Kirby co-starred with Crystal in 1991's CITY SLICKERS). Several years after Harry and Sally lost touch,they met again on an airplane. They keep running into each other all the time! Memorable scenes include Sally faking an orgasm in a restaurant. Many of the patrons look at her in great disbelief! Harry and Sally once meet at a wedding reception for Jess(Kirby) and Fisher's character. Harry and Sally end up in a private argument ending with a "f--k you" and a slap in a face from Sally to Harry. After many lonely days and lonely nights for Harry,he and Sally finally fall in love again at a New Year's Eve party. They never broke up again and finally became husband and wife. We also see other couples in the film telling how-we-met stories. Yes,the last told one was by Harry and Sally. Crystal's longtime friend Rob Reiner directed this initially bittersweet film and it also was 1989's highest-grossing films. Surprisingly,it never inspired a sequel. That same year,Reiner himself married his current wife,Michele Singer. Ryan was always one for romance films,subsequently appearing in FRENCH KISS,SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE,YOU'VE GOT MAIL and PRELUDE TO A KISS to name a few. Also take note in the college scenes,set in the 1970's,Crystal looks like how he did when he was Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom SOAP,which ran from 1977 to 1981. Ryan was a teenager back then. Crystal himself was married to his current wife Janice(the Crystals wed in 1970).

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