This is a movie with a scene that happens today – October 16. I hope you will enjoy this film while watching it tonight.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
In 1977 Harry Burns and Sally Albright, a friend of his girlfriend Amanda drive from Chicago to New York. In their discussions Harry says men and women can’t be friends. She later accuses him of making a pass at her and they part on bad terms. Five years later they meet on a plane. Sally is dating Joe, a former friend of Harry’s. Harry is now engaged to Helen. They again decide not to be friends. Five years later Joe and Sally have broken up. On October 16, 1988 [25:46 to 28:32] Harry discusses his divorce from Helen at the Giants-Lions NFL football game with his friend Jess. Sally and Harry meet in a bookstore. They decide to be friends and talk a lot, but date others. Harry tells Sally she is “high maintenance, but thinks she’s low maintenance.” Sally convinces Harry that women fake it. They set each other up with his friend Jess and her friend Marie. They go on a double date, but Jess and Marie hit it off. They later get engaged. While shopping with Sally for a wedding present for Jess and Marie they meet Harry’s ex Helen and her new husband, Ira. Late one night Sally calls Harry and asks him to come over because she has found out that Joe, her former boyfriend, is getting married to his assistant. They have sex, but Harry quickly leaves the next morning, the way he usually does after sex. They have a huge fight at Marie and Jess’s wedding. Harry immediately regrets this and keeps trying to apologize to her. On New Year Eve he crashes a party she’s at with Marie and Jess and tells her that he loves her. They make up and three months later get married.
One of the better romantic comedies. We can see from the beginning that Harry and Sally belong together, but of course they can’t. Of course we still don’t know the answer to Harry’s question of whether men and woman can ever be just friends.
The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia ed by Pete Palmer, Ken Pullis and Sean Lahman (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 2006) at page 968 gives the game date. At 29:46 Sally says she last saw Harry six years ago, so 1977 +5+6 = 1988. [Continuity error – at 1:21:18 it says 16th Rockin New Year’s eve – that was December 31, 1987. But the game referenced is the only one it could be since the Giants and Lions had not played for several years before 1988]
Producers - Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman and Nora Ephron
Director - Rob Reiner
Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar at the 62nd
Academy Awards.
Screenplay - Nora Ephron
Runtime – 1 hour 36 minutes
Released – July 14, 1989
Starring –
Billy Crystal as Harry Burns
Meg Ryan as Sally Albright
Carrie Fisher as Marie
Bruno Kirby as Jess
Steven Ford as Joe
Lisa Jane Persky as Alice
Michelle Nicastro as Amanda Reese
Kevin Rooney as Ira Stone
Harley Jane Kozak as Helen Hillson
Franc Luz as Julian
Estelle Reiner as Older Woman Customer
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