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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1989 DVD Release: 01/09/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 36 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Urban Comedy See Also: When Harry Met Sally [Decades Collection], When Harry Met Sally [Collector's Edition], When Harry Met Sally [Collector's Edition] [Widescreen]

Rob Reiner's romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as the title pair. The film opens with the two strangers, both newly graduated from the University of Chicago, share a car trip from Chicago to New York, where they are both going to make their way. During the trip, they discuss aspects of their characters and their lives, eventually deciding it is impossible for men and women to be "just friends." They arrive in New York and go their separate ways. They meet a few years later on an airplane and Harry reveals he is married. They meet again at a bookstore a few years after that where Harry reveals he is now divorced. From that point on, the two form a friendship. Eventually their closeness results in their respective best friends (played by Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby) meeting and falling in love with each other. At a New Year's Eve party Harry and Sally confront the complex tangle of emotions they feel for each other. The soundtrack consists primarily of Harry Connick Jr. crooning standards like "It Had to Be You." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Billy Crystal - Harry Burns
Meg Ryan - Sally Albright
Carrie Fisher - Marie
Bruno Kirby - Jess

The MGM DVD of When Harry Met Sally proves that the film keeps improving with age. The template for modern studio romantic comedies, When Harry Met Sally is also head and shoulders above its many imitators (including those of star Meg Ryan and writer Nora Ephron). Besides showing off the film's considerable charms, the DVD comes loaded with extra features and has been spruced up for the digital age. A better-than-average "making-of" documentary points out that the genesis of the film was director Rob Reiner's own dating woes and the friendly personality differences between himself and screenwriter Nora Ephron. The documentary is breezy but does show how many people contributed to the success of the movie and how easily it all could have gone off track. Also included are a number of scenes that were deleted from the finished film and a pretty thorough audio commentary from Reiner. The funny deleted scenes go over better than Reiner's commentary, which is informative but proves once again that Mel Brooks is one of the few people who can be entertaining while explaining comedy. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround audio track lives up to the theatrical release and the excellent anamorphic widescreen transfer showcases Barry Sonnenfeld's superb lensing. Though When Harry Met Sally is sometimes viewed as Woody Allen for the masses, this DVD reaffirms that it ended up creating a world and viewpoint all its own. ~ Nick Dedina, All Movie Guide