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Summary: Five stars and more
Review: Do you want to laugh, cry and think at the same time? When Harry Met Sally puts you in all those different states in its 96 minutes of running time. If you want to look at male-female relationsips from a very entertaining yet a very realistic perspective, you should definitely watch this movie. Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal are at the peak of their performance. I watched the movie at least ten times and it is so wonderful that I could watch it another ten times. As a dedicated fan of the movie, I strongly recommend you watch it- with someone that you love, if possible.
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Summary: A viewer from Paris, FRANCE, July 25th, 1999
Review: J'ai vu ce film environ une centaine de fois et j'avoue que je ne m'en lasse jamais. Je ne suis pas assez doué pour pouvoir exprimer correctement ce que j'éprouve en anglais, mais pour ceux qui me comprendront, je tiens à dire que ce film américain est exceptionnel et intelligent. De plus, quand on sait que les films qui cartonnent au box office des U.S.A sont en grande majorité des navets bourrés d'effets spéciaux qui ventent les mérites de la violence à outrance, on peut dire que ce film est vraiment un petit bijoux. Bien sur, si vous n'êtent pas très romantique, si pour vous s'exprimer c'est avant tout " FLINGUER à tout va ...", alors mieux vaut que vous passiez votre chemin. Mais pour les autres, c'est un vrai régal. Personnellement, compte-tenu du fait que nombreux sont les films noté " cinq étoiles ", je pense qu'une catégorie " films exceptionnels " devrait être spécialement créée pour ce genre de chef d'oeuvre.
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Summary: It's like looking for a planet in a sea of stars
Review: Do me a favor this weekend? Go down to the local bookstore, you know the one just around the corner. There, I want you to look for a book that will explain to me, in undeniable detail, the mechanics of how and why two people fall in love. Sure, you'll find plenty of books on romance, courtship, dating dos and don'ts, as well as a paperback or two on the differences between men and women. But, chances are you won't find what you're looking for. Why? The reason is because humanity probably knows volumes more about finding a planet next to a faraway star than we understand the wherefore of picking a perfect mate. Although explored with seemingly infinite variation this is the simple premise behind Rob Reiner's enchanting When Harry Met Sally.If you're one of the five people who haven't yet seen this spirited romantic comedy, it follows the 12-year and three-month long relationship of one Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan). For all the right reasons these are two people that are absolutely wrong for each other and should never, I repeat, never under any circumstances be together. It just feels so wrong! In fact they're so wrong for each other it's difficult to explain why. Even their names, Burns (dark) and Albright (light), are used to epitomize the concept of night and day, right and wrong, and the fact that they're almost complete opposites. What was Reiner thinking? Harry's a wisecracking gloomy neurotic that's impulsively hyper-pessimistic and has no problem articulating his obsessive idiosyncrasies. Sally says he seems like a normal person, but really he's the angle of death. On the other hand Sally's cheerfully over structured, up front but difficult, and incredibly optimistic. Harry calls this the worst kind, high maintenance that thinks they're low maintenance. But, she just wants it the way she wants it, with everything on the side. Their story begins with the old adage that you can learn plenty about somebody when you share a cross-country drive from Chicago to New York. The first time they met they couldn't stand each other. Harry is going with Sally's girlfriend, but before you can swing a dead cat in a crowded room he's hitting on her. She finds this and his dark side repulsive, and of course Harry buries the lead by telling her that men and women can never be friends. The second time they meet, five years later, he couldn't remember her name. He's getting married to Alice (Lisa Jane Persey) and she's a month into a new relationship with Joe (Steven Ford). In classic Harrian style he reaffirms his earlier declaration about men, women, and friendship; shares his feelings on post-coital bliss, and oh yes of course hits on her again. Five years pass, they met for a third time and slowly become close friends. This time their personal lives aren't doing so well. He's getting a nasty divorce and she has just broke up with Joe. By the way, Alice and Joe were both lawyers and perfect for them. The problem was they weren't really in love with them, just in love with the idea of being in love. Over the years they've soften up a bit and luckily are so self-absorbed with their failed relationships they don't notice that they like each other more than they should under the circumstances. Throughout this post-relationship grieving-friendship development process they both grow as people and introduce their best friends, Marie (Carrie Fisher) and Jess (Bruno Kirby), who if they had found either Harry or Sally remotely attractive would not have got married. This time they became friends for a long time and then they weren't. It's Sally that eventually forces the issue. She's sees a big fat dead-end just standing there waiting and is not content with being a consultation price at the next New Years Eve party. For his part Harry finally realizes that when you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. That's just like him, he goes and says something that makes it impossible for Sally to hate him. To the tune of It Had to be You they find that although they live in a city of eight million opposites not only attract, they knock down walls to get close to each other. Why? Is it that two halves make a whole, two wrongs make a right, or maybe it's just some kind of weird cosmic destiny? So, in the end maybe what When Harry Met Sally really says is that finding someone you can spend the rest of you life with is a little like knowing something about finding a planet in a sea of stars?
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Summary: One of the best Romantic Comedies ever!
Review: I absolutely love this movie! All of the characters work SO well in their own quirky ways. Carrie Fischer is hilarious as Sally's best friend. This movie even has a timeless soundtrack. The scenes framing the action of old lovers is wonderful! This movie is incredibly funny and touching, something that is very rare, and hard to accomplish. Wonderful!!
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Summary: What a great movie
Review: If not the best movie I've ever seen, certainly the best ever from its particular genre. Definitely, a must have in everyone's movie library.
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Summary: My all time favorite movie!
Review: This movie never fails to entertain me, no matter how many times I see it...and I've seen it many times! The music is wonderful, and Billy Crystal is at his best. And I LOVE the little vignettes of the old married couples that are woven into the movie...PRICELESS!!!
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Summary: The greatest movie ever made! seen it over 300 times!
Review: This is by far the greatest move ever made. I own the video and have watched it so much that I ruined the first copy and had to buy a second one. I know every last word to the movie. My best friends and I all get together and have When Harry Met Sally parties. i love it so much because it is exactly how me and my husband got together, except we didn't meet at the university of chicago. instead it was in high school, but close enough.
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Summary: Woman and man gathered for real
Review: Never before this movie a woman and a man went so far in a true history of friendhood, love, humanity.
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Summary: One to watch over and over again
Review: This movie never fails to leave me laughing and crying at the same time. It's a romance between two people that don't quite get along at first, which is a lot more realistic than most sappy love stories. I'm anxiously waiting for it to be released on DVD.
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Summary: Two obnoxious people find love in each other's tentacles
Review: I'm at a loss as to why it's made so many people's "Top 10" lists. This has to be one of the least amusing romantic comedies ever made. Who could stand to spend an hour with either one of the two leading characters? Or with any of the characters' friends, for that matter? The scene near the beginning in which Meg Ryan's character is kvetching with two shallow gal pals about their terrible love lives sets the tone for this whole disaster. Later on, as she and her obnoxious buddy, played by Billy Crystal, decorate his oh-so-chic loft apartment, he mentions that he went on a date with a woman who, he claims, didn't have a sense of humor: she refused to laugh at his joke about starving Ethiopians. Meg Ryan, hearing the joke, laughs. Yep, these two dating-obsessed, brain dead twits deserve each other, all right. Charmless, mindless, shallow yuppies in love isn't exactly my idea of a good time. Not in "Plan 9 From Outer Space" territory--not so egregiously awful as to merit one star--but barely misses that designation.
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