When Harry Met Sally

When Harry Met Sally  

A Rob Reiner Film

Harry Burns - Billy Crystal

Sally Allbright - Meg Ryan

Marie - Carrie Fisher

Jess - Bruno Kirby

Joe - Steven Ford

Alice - Lisa Jane Persky

Amanda - Michelle Nicastro

Man: I was sitting with my friend Arthur Cornrom in a restaurant. It was

an ___ ___ cafeteria and this beautiful girl walked in and I turned to Arthur

and I said, "Arthur, you see that girl? I'm going to marry her, and two weeks

later we were married and it's over fifty years later and we are still

married.

(At the university, Harry and Amanda kissing goodbye.)

Amanda: I love you

Harry: I love you

Sally: (clears throat) kmm kmm... Kmm Kmm

Amanda: Oh, hi Sally. Sally, this is Harry Burns. Harry, this is Sally

Allbright.

Harry: Nice to meet you.

Sally: You want to drive the first shift?

Harry: No, you're there already you can start.

Sally: Back's open.

Amanda: Call me.

Harry: I'll call you as soon as I get there.

Amanda: Oh, call me from the road.

Harry: I'll call you before that.

Amanda: I love you.

Harry: I love you.

Sally: (honks) Sorry.

Harry: I miss you already, huh, I miss you already.

Amanda: I miss you.

Harry: Bye.

Amanda: Bye.

(Harry and Sally in the car, on their whay to New York)

Sally: I have it all figured out. It's an eighteen hour trip which breaks

down into six shifts of three hours each or alternatively we could break it

down by mileage.

(Harry climbs to reach for something at the back-seat)

Sally: There's a...there's a map on the huh... visor that I've marked to show

the locations so we can change shifts.

Harry: Grapes?

Sally: No, I don't like to eat between meals.

(Harry spits pits out but the window was shut)

Harry: I'll roll down the window. Why don't you tell me the story of your

life.

Sally: Story of my life?

Harry: We've got eighteen hours to kill before we hit New York.

Sally: The story of my life isn't even going to get us out of Chicago I mean

nothing's happened to me yet. That's why I'm going to New York.

Harry: So something can happen to you?

Sally: Yes.

Harry: Like what?

Sally: I can go into journalism school to become a reporter.

Harry: So you can write about things that happen to other people.

Sally: That's one way to look at it.

Harry: Suppose nothing happens to you. Suppose you lived out your whole life

and nothing happens you never meet anybody you never become anything and

finally you die in one of those New York deaths which nobody notices for two

weeks until the smell drifts into the hallway.

Sally: Amanda mentioned you had a dark side.

Harry: That's what drew her to me.

Sally: Your dark side.

Harry: Sure. Why don't you have a dark side? No you're probably one of those

cheerful people who dots their eyes with little hearts.

Sally: I have just as much of a dark side as the next person.

Harry: Oh really. When I buy a new book I always read the last page first

that way in case I die before I finish I know how it ends. That my friend is

a dark side.

Sally: That doesn't mean you're deep or anything I mean... yes, basically I'm

a happy person...

Harry: So am I.

Sally: ...and I don't see that there's anything wrong with that.

Harry: Of course not you're too busy being happy. Do you ever think about

death?

Sally: Yes.

Harry: Sure you do, a fleeting thought that jumps in and out of the transient

of your mind. I spend hours, I spend days...

Sally: And you think that makes you a better person.

Harry: Look, when the shit comes down I'm gonna be prepared and you're not

that's all I'm saying.

Sally: And in the mean time you're gonna ruin your whole life waiting for it.

(a while later, still in the car)

Sally: You're wrong.

Harry: I'm not wrong, he wants...

Sally: You're wrong.

Harry: ...he wants her to leave that's why he puts her on the plane.

Sally: I don't think she wants to stay.

Harry: Of course she wants to stay. Wouldn't you rather be with Humphrey

Bogart than the other guy?

Sally: I don't want to spend the rest of my life in Casablanca married to a

man who runs a bar. I probably sound very snobbish to you but I don't.

Harry: You'd rather be in a passionless marriage.

Sally: And be the first lady of Czechoslovakia.