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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792848240
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792848241
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 09, 2001
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 2191
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1989
Editorial Review:
Description:
'Brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit' (Rolling Stone), this 'splendid and irresistible' (Los Angeles Times) film from director Rob Reiner(American President is one of the best-loved romantic comedies of all time. Featuring dazzling performances from Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby, exceptional music from Harry Connick Jr., and an OscarÂ(r)-nominated* screenplay by Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally is an 'explosively funny' commentary on friendship, courtships - and other hardships - of the modern age (Newsweek)! Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? that's what Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) debate during their travels from Chicago to New York. And eleven years and later, they're still no closer to finding the answer. Will these two best friends ever accept that they're meant for each other...or will they continue to deny the attraction that's existed since the first moment When Harry Met Sally? *1989
Amazon.com:
Nora Ephron wrote the brisk screenplay for this 1989 romantic comedy, director Rob Reiner made a nicely glossy New York story (very much in a Woody Allen vein) out of it, and Billy Crystal's unstoppable charm made it something really special. Crystal and Meg Ryan play longtime platonic friends who keep dancing around their deeper feelings for one another, and Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher are their respective pals who fall in love and get married. Ryan doesn't get a lot of funny material, but her performance is typically alive and intuitive, and she more than holds her own with Crystal's comic motor mouth and sweet sentimentality. Reiner is on comfortable ground, liberated from the burden of making serious statements in the lead-footed manner of subsequent features. --Tom Keogh
On the DVD
The Collector's Edition offers seven new featurettes (the previous Special Edition only had one documentary), beginning with a sit-down between director Rob Reiner and writer Nora Ephron waxing nostalgic on how the movie originated: He, recently divorced from Penny Marshall, was a miserable single man, while she was the screenwriter who rejected his initial pitch over lunch ('It was a shame,' she remembers, 'because we hadn't even eaten yet.'). It's easy to see that Reiner is clearly Harry, and Ephron is clearly Sally: He's the squawking chatterbox and she's constantly corrects his memory (Sally's meticulous method of ordering food is also a direct rip-off of Ephron herself). Other featurettes show Billy Crystal's attempts to play Harry (or Reiner, as it were); location filming in New York; the love stories that served as interludes between scenes (again, the counselors-at-camp story is from Ephron's parents); the significance of the film over time; and more discussion on the film's famous question: 'Can men and women really be friends?' Most of the stories from the featurettes are recycled in the new film commentary by Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal (Reiner mentions that the 'I'll have what she's having' line, spoken by his mother, is in the top 10 of AFI's top 100 movie lines no less than five times overall), but the inclusion of Crystal, who contributed many improvised lines in the movie, makes for a nice easygoing repartee. Fans may be interested to know that Reiner originally thought Harry and Sally shouldn't get together, until he himself fell in love with his future wife on the set, but the most hilarious tidbit involves Reiner storming the production offices and polling all the women on whether or not they 'fake it' because didn't believe that really happened. Seven deleted scenes--which were also included in the previous version--and original theatrical trailer round out the set, but Harry Connick Jr.'s 'It Had to Be You' music video is missing. Still, the special features are a great look into a romantic comedy that clearly remains a meaningful experience for cast, crew, and audience alike. --Ellen A. Kim
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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Rating:  - great movie
This version of this classic is very good. I used it in class and students who were born when this movie premiered still seem to identify with the ideas in this story. It's worth watching, but not with kids as nearly all of the conversation is adult in nature.
Rating: - A movie to fall in love with time and time again...
The first time Harry met Sally there was tension and they parted with a slight animosity. The second time Harry met Sally he didn't remember her. The third time Harry met Sally he not only remembered her, but the two struck up a friendship that would carry them through some ups and downs before; well, you know how these types of stories go. Yes, `When Harry Met Sally' may be a predictable romantic comedy, and we may know how the story is going to end, but it's the getting there that makes all ... Read More
Rating: - SMART & INSIGHTFUL VERY RARE IN A ROMANTIC COMEDY!
A rarity in this type of film, it has a brain and it isn't too sappy! Crystal and Ryan are great in this smart and funny romance flick! This is definitely one romantic comedy that both men and women can enjoy. The DVD transfer in very good.
Rating:  - YES! YES! YES!!! Whatever.
So this is ranked number six on AFI's Top Ten List of Romantic Comedies? Well it is a funny movie. Not that funny, but funny. I just mean not as funny as apparently most people seem to think it is. I remember going to the theater and seeing WHEN HARRY MET SALLY when it first came out. I went with my much older cousin and his friends. When the scene that this movie is famous for came on I remember my cousin, his girlfriend and all his friends, along with most of the audience, laughing just hystericaly ... Read More
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