When Harry Met Sally...
Directed by Rob Reiner
At Harvard Square Theatre
WHEN Sally first met Harry, she thought he was a slime-ball.
When Harry first met Sally, he thought she was frigid.
Twelve years later, they get married, disproving the first question the two characters ask each other in When Harry Met Sally...: Can men and women be friends without sex getting in the way?
According to Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan), the answer is a definitive, but content, "No."
The screenplay, written by Nora Ephron (Heartburn), traces the love/hate relationship between the two from their first meeting on a cross-country trip after they graduate from college to their marriage 12 years later. Throughout it all, Harry and Sally maintain a hysterical debate on the nature of modern relationships and the ability of each sex to understand the other.
THE beginning of the movie is predicatable but funny, with Ryan as an uptight good girl who doesn't eat between meals, and Crystal playing an arrogant and morbid bullshit-artist. It reads like the old boy-meets-girl formula, with a modern twist:
Boy and girl meet.
They hate each other.
[Five years later...]
Boy and girl meet again.
They still hate each other.
[Five years later...]
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