Today’s movie is a
romantic comedy with a scene that happens on October 16. Watch it tonight and
enjoy.
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 as 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 Sally. On New Year Eve he crashes a party
she’s at with Marie and Jess and tells Sally 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. 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 Dec.31, 1987. The game referenced is the only
one it could be since the Giants and Lions had not played for several years
before 1988]
Awards – The film was nominated
for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar at the 62nd
Academy
Awards.
Producers - Rob Reiner, Andrew
Scheinman and Nora Ephron
Director - Rob Reiner
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
Copyright by Ivan Walters in
2014.
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