- Actors: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, Steven Ford
- Directors: Rob Reiner
- Writers: Nora Ephron
- Producers: Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Jeffrey Stott, Nora Ephron, Steve Nicolaides
- Language English
- Classification: 15
- Studio: MGM
- VHS Release Date: 23 July 2001
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004U3VY
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,316 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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. 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 apart from her famous faked orgasm scene, 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
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is a gem in a world of special effects and mindless screenplays. The sharpness and wit of the writing zing you through the development of the relationship between the characters. The soundtrack is superb and gives the movie a timeless quality.
Too much is made of the scene in the cafe with Meg Ryan screaming her head off. Watching the characters develop from college, through the years where their personalities are changed by their life experiences is one of the joys of this movie. Billy Crystal's performance in his decline into a neurotic hypochondriac is excellent, as is Meg Ryan’s portrayal of a high-maintenance-woman.
If you're after a drama with excellent writing, humour and romance, then this is the movie for you.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Difficult as it may be to write a review for such a classic, I will do my best. By all means get this DVD, even if you are not a romantic comedies' fan (and just for the record, neither am I). Though some of it may seem cheesy and repetitive do bear in mind that this was among the first films in the genre and the source of many later film plots.
In my opinion this film is a masterpiece, for reasons that would exceed the amount of space at my disposal. Marvellous acting, original characters, plot that spans more than a decade and portrays how the characters change as they mature and come to terms with life and love, just to name a few. If you are among the very few people who still have not seen it do get the DVD, and if you have seen it than you know what I am talking about.
Additional features are not exquisite but still enable you to get a glimpse of this world that I had shelved. Though it is easy to see why the deleted scenes had been removed in the first place, they still give you additional insight into the world of Harry and Sally.
To sum up, good value for your hard earned pay, excellent film for when you are feeling blue. What are you waiting for?
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is where so much started -- not just most romcoms, but the best of modern TV classics like Friends and Sex and the City, which blend sharp dialogue and relationship angst against a loving depiction of New York. Meg Ryan is at her best here (I think she spent a lot of her career trying with limited success to recapture the edgy charm she nails in this film). Billy Crystal has some hilarious lines which he delivers with characteristic expertise. The chemistry the leads have is matched by the lovely performances turned in by Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby as their best friends. And the interspersed interviews with elderly married couples is a stroke of genius.
Yes it's schmaltzy and soppy and sentimental -- but why should that be a bad thing?
Yes it's schmaltzy and soppy and sentimental -- but why should that be a bad thing?
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PAL is not my pal
Somehow I missed the fact that this DVD was a european PAL format DVD. I'm a US customer and obviously needed a US format (NTSC) DVD. Read more
Published 1 month ago by PatS
women are from venus..........
I love this film, it is so full of the differences between men and women, my fav is when Harry explains to Sally about men wanting to get up from the bed after sex, my boyfriend is... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Emmalucy
makes you wonder why other rom-coms are so bad..
When Harry Met Sally is a fine example of how
romantic comedies can be funny and engaging
without being overly sweetened or one dimensional. Read more
romantic comedies can be funny and engaging
without being overly sweetened or one dimensional. Read more
Published 5 months ago by BrownFilm
CLASSIC GALORE!
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY was brilliant! Simply hilarious! JOKES GALORE! Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan were superb along with the other cast members. The directing was fantastic! Read more
Published 9 months ago by G. Stephenson
classic chick fliick
Not usually a chick flick kind of girl, but this is the exception. It has aged remarkably well, given how old it is. Read more
Published on 30 May 2010 by Susan M. Richards
The first and the best
It is the film that invented the modern romantic comedy and many films since have tried to recapture the originality and wit - without success in my view. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2009 by Finlay
classic comedy
one of the best romantic comedies of the 80s, it avoids being too cheesy by putting a good deal of humour in it, and the two leading characters/actors are great
Published on 9 Aug 2009 by M. Bagarella
Just fantastic!
There really isnt much to say about this film-nothing that hasnt already been said by the gazillions of other people who adhore it like i do. Read more
Published on 27 July 2009 by Chloe.A.B
The romantic comedy to end all romantic comedies.
Romantic comedies are now limp, inevitable, soppy nonsense which honeymoon couples watch so they snuggle up in bed and Eskimo kiss each other into oblivion. Read more
Published on 7 May 2009 by dynamitekid156
When Harry met Sally
I had this on video tape and it was time we had it on DVD. It is probably not cool to say so, but it has a place in any collection, chick flick or not.
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