Harry (Billy Crystal) meets Sally (Meg Ryan) on a post-graduation drive from the University of Chicago to New York, but when she rebuffs his flip advances, instant antipathy is born. Nonetheless, over the next 10 years in Manhattan, the two bump into each other at various emotionally
crucial points in their lives and eventually manage to effect a friendship. Then sex rears its insistent head once more, and, following a period of readjustment, commitment-shy Harry learns that staying an entire night--and possibly an entire life--with one's object of lust is actually possible. The plot may seem anything but fresh (and the borrowings from Woody Allen certainly are stal...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
96 mins