When Harry Met Sally Page #9

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
3,809 Views


- 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.

~ It had to be you

~ It had to be you

~ I wandered around

~ And I finally found

~ The somebody who

~ Could make me be true

~ And could make me be blue...

- I'm going.

- It's almost midnight!

- The thought of not kissing somebody...

- I'll kiss you.

Hey, taxi! Taxi!

Taxi!

Sh*t.

- Come on, stay. Please.

- Thanks, Jess. I just... I have to go.

- Wait two minutes.

- I'll call you tomorrow.

~ Might never be mean

~ Might never be cross

~ Or try to be boss

~ But they wouldn't do

~ For nobody else

~ Gave me a thrill

~ With all your faults

~ I love you still

~ It had to be you...

I've been doin' a lot of thinkin',

and the thing is, I love you.

- What?

- I love you.

- How d'you expect me to respond to this?

- How about you love me, too?

- How about I'm leaving?

- Doesn't what I said mean anything?

Sorry, Harry. I know it's New Year's Eve,

I know you're feeling lonely,

but you just can't show up, say you love

me and expect that to make it all right.

- It doesn't work this way.

- Well, how does it work?

- I don't know, but not this way.

- Then how about this way?

I love that you get cold when it's 71 out.

I love that it takes you 1 1/2 hours

to order a sandwich.

I love that you get a crinkle here

when you look at me like I'm nuts.

I love that after I spend a day with you

I smell your perfume on my clothes.

And I love that you are the last person I

wanna talk to before I go to sleep at night.

And it's not because I'm lonely

or because it's New Year's Eve.

I came cos when you realise you wanna

spend the rest of your life with someone

you want the rest of your life

to start as soon as possible.

You see?

That is just like you, Harry.

You say things like that and you make it

impossible for me to hate you!

And I hate you, Harry.

I really hate you.

I hate you.

What does this song mean?

My whole life, I don't know.

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot" -

should we forget old acquaintances?

Or if we forget them,

should we remember them?

Which is not possible

cos we already forgot 'em!

Maybe it just means we should remember

that we forgot them, or something.

Anyway, it's about old friends.

The first time we met

we hated each other.

No, I hated you. The second time we met,

you didn't even remember me.

I did, too! I remembered you.

The third time we met

we became friends.

- We were friends for a long time.

- And then we weren't.

And then we fell in love.

- Three months later we got married.

- It only took three months.

- We had a really wonderful wedding.

- It really was a beautiful wedding.

- We had this enormous coconut cake.

- Huge coconut cake with the tiers.

And there was this very rich

chocolate sauce on the side.

Right. Cos not everybody likes it

on the cake cos it makes it soggy.

Particularly, the coconut soaks up a lot,

so it's important to keep it on the side.

~ It had to be you

~ It had to be you

~ I wandered around and finally found

~ The somebody who

~ Could make me be true

~ Could make me be blue

~ And even be gladjust to be sad

~ Thinking of you

~ But you say ee-ther, and I say either

~ You say nee-ther, I say neither

~ Ee-ther, either Nee-ther, neither

~ Let's call the whole thing off

~ You say potato and I say pot-ahto

~ You say tomato, I say tom-ahto

~ Potato, pot-ahto Tomato, tom-ahto

~ Let's call the whole thing off

~ Oh, if we call the whole thing off,

then we must part

~ And though if we ever part,

that would break my heart

~ You say laughter, I say larf-ter

~ You say after, I say arf-ter

~ Before we know we need each other

~ So we'd better call, call it off, oh!

~ Let's

~ Call it off!

~ Oh, let's

~ Call it off!

~ Baby, let's

~ Call it off!

~ Sugar, why don't we

~ Let's, let's call the whole thing

~ They're writing songs oflove,

but not for me

~ A lucky star's above, but not for me

~ With love to lead the way,

I've found more clouds ofgrey

~ Than any Russian play could guarantee

~ I was a fool to fall and get that way

~ Hi-ho alas

~ And also lackaday

~ Although I can't dismiss

the memory ofher kiss

~ I guess she's not

~ For

~ Me

~ It had to be you

~ It had to be you

~ For nobody else gave me a thrill

~ With all your faults, I love you still

~ It had to be you, wonderful you

~ It had to be you

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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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