The true stories, gathered by Nora Ephron, are narrated by actors. The film contains several interspersed segments of older couples discussing how they met. Harry and Sally marry three months later, exactly 12 years and three months after their first meeting. They then have a New Year's midnight kiss. She argues that the only reason he is there is that he is lonely, but he lists the many things he loves about her. As Sally decides to leave the party before midnight, Harry appears and declares his love for her. Before midnight, he walks around the city. He starts to spend New Year's alone, watching Dick Clark's 16th annual New Year's Rockin' Eve. He attempts to mend their friendship, but Sally feels that they cannot be friends.Īt a 1988 New Year's Eve party, Sally feels lonely without Harry. Their friendship cools until they have a heated argument at Jess and Marie's wedding dinner in which Sally angrily slaps Harry. Harry leaves the next morning, feeling awkward and filled with regret. He goes to her apartment to comfort her and in Sally's vulnerable state, they begin kissing and have sex. One night while talking on the phone, Sally tearfully tells Harry that her ex is getting married. When the four go to a restaurant, Marie and Jess quickly fall for each other and later become engaged. Even though they remain friends, they set each other up with their respective best friends, Marie and Jess. They have late-night phone conversations, go to dinner, and spend time together discussing their love-lives.ĭuring a New Year's Eve party, Harry and Sally find themselves attracted to each other. They take a walk and agree to pursue a friendship. They have coffee and talk about their previous relationships Sally and Joe broke up because she wanted a family and he did not want to marry, and Harry's wife Helen left him for another man. They separate, concluding that they will not be friends.įive years later in 1987, Harry and Sally run into each other again in a bookstore. Harry suggests they become friends, forcing him to qualify his previous position about the impossibility of male-female friendships. It turns out Sally is dating Harry's neighbor Joe, and Harry is engaged to Helen, which surprises her, as it seems uncharacteristically optimistic of him. They part in New York on unfriendly terms.įive years later in 1982, Harry and Sally find themselves on the same flight. At a diner, Harry tells Sally she is very attractive, and she angrily accuses him of making a pass at her. Harry has been dating Sally's friend Amanda Reese.ĭuring the drive, Harry and Sally discuss their differing ideas about relationships she disagrees with his assertion that men and women cannot be friends as "the sex part gets in the way". In 1977, Harry Burns and Sally Albright graduate from the University of Chicago and share the drive to New York City, where she is beginning journalism school and he is starting a career. In early 2004, the film was adapted for the stage in a production starring Luke Perry and Alyson Hannigan. 100 Laughs list of the top comedy films in American cinema and number 60 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". The film is ranked 23rd on AFI's 100 Years. Ephron received a British Academy Film Award, an Oscar nomination, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for her screenplay. The film grossed $92.8 million in North America, and was released to critical acclaim. in selected cities, letting word of mouth generate interest, before gradually expanding distribution. For his work on the soundtrack, Connick won his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance.Ĭolumbia Pictures released When Harry Met Sally. The soundtrack consists of standards from Harry Connick Jr., with a big band and orchestra arranged by Marc Shaiman. Ephron supplied the structure of the film with much of the dialogue based on the real-life friendship between Reiner and Crystal. Crystal came on board and made his own contributions to the screenplay, making Harry funnier. Sally was based on Ephron and some of her friends. An interview Ephron conducted with Reiner provided the basis for Harry. Ideas for the film began when Rob Reiner divorced from Penny Marshall. The film addresses but fails to resolve questions along the lines of "Can men and women ever just be friends?" The story follows the title characters from the time they meet in Chicago just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve years of chance encounters in New York City. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. is a 1989 American romantic comedy-drama film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner.
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