When Harry Met Sally...

19891989
RR
1h 35m

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

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Comedy Drama Romance

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 4 wins & 17 nominations total

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Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?" —Greg Bole <bole@life.bio.sunysb.edu>

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Taglines
- Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?
Genres
Certificate
- R
Parents guide

Trivia
According to writer Nora Ephron, the infamous "I'll have what she's having" line was actually suggested by Billy Crystal.

Goofs
Near the end, when Sally is typing on her computer, apparently she is typing the longest word in the history of modern language, because her fingers never touch the "space" bar.

Quotes
Harry Burns: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Licence to Kill/Peter Pan/When Harry Met Sally (1989)

Soundtracks
Our Love Is Here To Stay
Written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Published by Chappell & Co.
Performed by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
Courtesy of PolyGram Special Products, a Division of PolyGram Records Inc.
Performed by Harry Connick Jr.
Courtesy of CBS Records
By Arrangement with CBS Records Music Licensing Department

Top review

9/10

Beautiful film, giving hope to all those seemingly unrequited loves.

Can you beat some of the lines in this film? As a guy, which I am, I identified with Harry's lines so much, and you can't help but side with him. The chemistry between the two actors, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan is superb, and you believe in them when they talk, you feel for them when they look at each other. Even the friends are well casted, Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby. It's such relaxed acting and filming that you do nothing but watch these people fall in love, and pretty soon you feel like you're involved as well. With a fantastic soundtrack, direction, script and acting, it's a great film.

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Budget
- $16,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $93,075,866
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,094,453
- Jul 16, 1989
Gross worldwide
- $93,232,006

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Runtime
1 hour 35 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Stereo

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