When Harry Met Sally Page #2

Synopsis: Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?"
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Rob Reiner
Production: Columbia Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
1989
96 min
3,686 Views


Where had I left Sunday?

And I told him and he didn't believe me.

- What?

- They don't make Sunday.

- Why not?

- Because of God.

OK, so 15 % of my share is 90.

$6.90.

Let's leave seven.

What?

Do I have something on my face?

You're a very attractive person.

Thank you.

Amanda never said

how attractive you were.

Maybe she doesn't think I'm attractive.

I don't think it's a matter of opinion.

Empirically, you are attractive.

Amanda is my friend.

So?

- So you're going with her.

- So?

So you're coming on to me!

No, I wasn't.

What?

Can't a man say a woman is attractive

without it being a come-on?

All right, all right.

Let's just say, just for the sake

of argument, that it was a come-on.

What d'you want me to do about it?

I take it back, OK? I take it back.

You can't take it back.

- Why not?

- Because it's already out there.

What are we supposed to do?

Call the cops, it's already out there!

Just let it lie.

- OK?

- Great! "Let it lie." That's my policy.

That's what I always say: "Let it lie."

Wanna spend the night in a motel?

- See? I didn't let it lie.

- Harry.

I said I would, then I didn't.

- Harry!

- What?

We are just going to be friends, OK?

Great! Friends! It's the best thing.

You realise

that we could never be friends.

- Why not?

- What I'm saying is,

and this is not a come-on

in any way, shape or form,

is that men and women can't be friends,

cos the sex part always gets in the way.

That's not true. I have a number of

men friends and there is no sex involved.

- You don't.

- I do.

- You don't.

- I do!

You only think you do.

I have sex with them

without my knowledge?

No, they all wanna have sex with you.

- They do not.

- Do, too.

- They do not.

- Do, too.

How do you know?

No man can be friends

with a woman he finds attractive.

He always wants to have sex with her.

So you're saying a man can be friends

with a woman he finds unattractive.

No, you pretty much

wanna nail them, too.

What if they don't wanna have sex?

Doesn't matter. The sex thing is already

out there, so the friendship is doomed.

- I guess we're not gonna be friends then.

- Guess not.

That's too bad.

You were the only person

that I knew in New York.

~ You say ee-ther, I say either

~ You say nee-ther and I say neither

~ Ee-ther, either

~ And nee-ther, neither

~ Let's call the whole thing off

~ Yes, you like potato and I like pot-ahto

~ You like tomato, I like tom-ahto

~ Potato, pot-ahto

~ Tomato, tom-ahto

~ Let's call the whole thing off

- Thanks for the ride.

- Yeah. It was interesting.

- It was nice knowing you.

- Yeah.

- Well, have a nice life.

- You, too.

~ You like potato and I like pot-ahto

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Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron ( EF-rən; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is best known for her romantic comedy films and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing: for Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). She won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally.... She sometimes wrote with her sister Delia Ephron. Her last film was Julie & Julia. Her first produced play, Imaginary Friends (2002), was honored as one of the ten best plays of the 2002-03 New York theatre season. She also co-authored the Drama Desk Award–winning theatrical production Love, Loss, and What I Wore. In 2013, Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy. more…

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