Rating: Summary: Instant classic Review: If you haven't seen this movie, may I ask what rock you've been living under? Buy it, rent it, steal it NOW. Hilariously funny and sweet and Meg Ryan's best film.The DVD does not have a bunch of neat extras, so if you already own the VHS version there is no reason to upgrade.
Rating: Summary: One of My Favorite Movies Review: When Harry Met Sally is a joy to watch. Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) meet in the late seventies when they share a long-distance trip. They travel from the University of Chicago (my alma mater) to New York (the place where I grew up) so I have a special place in my heart for this movie. Harry and Sally dislike each other intensely during the trip. Even during this first trip, their dialogue is interesting and fun, and they seem to have chemistry. They lose touch at the end of the car trip. They meet once or twice more and eventually become friends. The movie works as an answer to the question of whether women and men become friends, but it works even better as an answer to the question of how friends fall in love and whether it is better to be friends first or not. Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher are great in supporting roles. Unless you hate all romantic comedies, I strongly recommend this movie.
Rating: Summary: A Classic and a Great DVD Review: If you haven't seen "When Harry Met Sally," well then of course you must rent or buy this DVD. It is the one "date" movie that both genders can appreciate. It poses a critical questions: can men and women just be friends? It has beautiful, lush NYC settings in the late 1970's and 1980's. Plus, Nora Ephron wrote a witty, wonderful script. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan delivered her lines with panache. If you have seen "When Harry Met Sally," even if you own the VHS tape, you still should buy or rent the DVD. Rob Reiner's commentary over the film is wonderful. At the time of the shooting of the film, he had been dating and had not yet met the perfect woman. He actually met her during the shooting of the film-in fact, he points out the scene that was shot on the day he met her-and this adds a personal note to a great classic.
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I'll Have What She's Having
Review: This movie is so superior to "Sleepless in Seattle" that it makes SiS look like its defective clone "You've Got Mail". Everything about this movie is just right, especially the price. The scenes of old couples recounting how they met were just a few of the details I'd forgotten since seeing this in the theater years ago. Billy Crystal, uh, shines, and Meg Ryan shows that she used to be great at comedy. This is cheaper than a lot of the ... that makes it onto disk, so buy it and enjoy. Directed by Rob Reiner.
Rating: Summary: Great flick! Review: I adore this movie because it reflects life so well. Romantic and cynical at the same time.
Rating: Summary: The Best Date Movie Of All Time Review: Of late, both my sister and I (endlessly critical of any screenwriter who's past it) find ourselves panning Nora Ephron's latest batch of screenplays. If they're not pap ("Michael", "Sleepless in Seattle"), they're over-reaching, ham-handed cutesy fare for the 90s ("You've Got Mail) that date themselves without any critical lambasting. THIS film, however, delivers the goods. More than 12 years later, it still does, too. The script was great, the humour fresh (if not original), and the performances are all spot on. Possibly some of the best casting decisions of recent memory, but enough drama to keep the film's feet planted firmly on the ground. An all-around great movie to own, whether you're a Brett Ratner fan or a Wim Wenders acolyte.
Rating: Summary: A feel good film! Review: This movie is one of a kind! A feel good comedy with some of the best actors of our time. Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby make this film spectacular to watch again and again. The way that Ryan and Crystal characters are faced with the real and comical situations about sex and relationships is CLASSIC! The scene in the deli had me laughing for days! How many times have you wondered if your partner was "faking it"??? Have you ever wondered what a sexual relationship with your best male or female friend would be like? Even my husband enjoyed this movie.Rob Reiner is a wonderful director - with other hits like "Sleepless in Seattle", "Stand By Me" and "A Few Good Men" just to name a few. I love that Reiner directs and acts in his movies. Who didn't love "MeatHead" on "All in The Family"?? If you haven't seen this movie - GO NOW and Buy it - you won't regret it.
Rating: Summary: One of the Best!!! Review: It doesn't matter how many times I've watched this film in the past, I can't help but watch it over and over again when it's on television. It's just one of those movies that you can't stop watching once you've started. I like this film because it tells the cute story about Harry and Sally who start off practically enemies, eventually become friends, and then fall in love, realizing that they were perfect for each other the whole time. Billy Crystal plays the role of Harry perfectly, and Meg Ryan plays the high-maintenance Sally to a tee! I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to watch a funny and heart-warming film!!!!
Rating: Summary: When Harry met Sally... Review: This is a very good movie. I love it. 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. All in all this is definately a must see for anyone that has taste. I strongly recommend this to anyone in need of a good story but is to lazy to read. BUY IT!
Rating: Summary: Men and women love this movie. Review: I think Bob Reiner should hold a class for directors putting out special edition DVDs. After all the droll commentaries and glorified PR segments sold as documentaries that I've seen, this guy seems to be the only one who actually thinks about what kind of special feautures might be interesting to watch. His documentaries (I own The Princess Bride as well) are relatively long and insightful, and the deleted scenes here could have easily been included in the movie. Don't bother with the feauture-length commentary, which repeats all the same information in the documentary, but do watch the latter, which is almost as fun as the movie itself. There are two models of the romantic comedy, screenwriter Norah Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) tells us: the Christian and the Jewish. The Christian model has to do with genuine obstacles, while in the Jewish model, pioneered by Woody Allen, the primary obstacle is the male's neurosis. This sets up Billy Crystal's character, at his ironic, jaded, but please-rescue-me-from-myself best. A fresh young Meg Ryan, in constrast, is the genuine, get-over-yourself, it's-all-good-but-please-prove-me-right counterpart. Add in the third main character, New York, and you've got yourself a classic comedy of the running conversation. I think the reason that men and women both enjoy this movie is that it pays tribute to both traditional camps, the worldly-troubled one, and the love-is-true one. Crystal's humor is often bitter, but Ryan's is not, and their mutual intelligence and mutual humanity redeem each other from freakdom and make their ultimate happiness feel earned. This film makes an uncanny crossover from gritty Allenism to glossy effervescence, and in the process achieves Reiner's first genuine classic.
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