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| When Harry Met Sally |
| 24 Feb: 7pm & 9pm; 26 Feb: 9pm; 28 Feb: 7pm; 6 March at 4.00pm |
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Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Billy Crystal; Meg Ryan
Certificate: TBA Duration: 96 minutes
When Harry Met Sally is a 1989 romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows the title characters from the time they meet just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve years or so of chance encounters in New York City. The film raises the question "Can men and women ever just be friends?"
In 1977, Harry Burns and Sally Albright finish college at the University of Chicago and meet when both need someone to share the drive to New York City, where Harry is starting grad school and Sally is beginning a career. At the time, Harry is dating a friend of Sally's, and the film soon presents their differing ideas about relationships between men and women. It is Harry's view that, "Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way." Sally disagrees, claiming that men and women can be strictly friends without sex. This argument becomes the film's underlying theme. On the way, at a stop in a diner, Sally is angered when Harry tells her she is attractive; she accuses him of making a pass at her. In New York, due to their divergent philosophies, they part on less than friendly terms.
Five years later, they meet in a New York airport and find themselves on the same plane. Both are in relationships; Sally has just started dating a man named Joe, and Harry is engaged to a woman named Helen, which surprises Sally. Harry suggests they become friends, forcing him to elaborate on his previous rule about male-female friendships; they can never be friends because sex will always be in their way spoiling it. They separate concluding that they will not be friends.
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