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When Harry Met Sally (Blu-ray)<br />
Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan<br />
20th things don’t go any better. Harry is<br />
going to get married, and, in a wonderful<br />
exchange, Sally tells him how optimistic<br />
he’s being (translation: what woman<br />
would marry this guy?). Another five<br />
years, and both are free. Sally has broken<br />
off with her clueless lawyer boyfriend,<br />
and Harry is getting divorced (his<br />
recounting of the breakup to his best<br />
friend Jess [Bruno Kirby] while they are<br />
doing the wave at a ball game is one of<br />
the film’s many brilliant moments).<br />
In another memorable scene, Harry<br />
has a delayed meltdown after running<br />
across his ex-wife and her new husband,<br />
and throws an upsetting tantrum. Sally<br />
runs out to upbraid him, and then the<br />
dialog twists in a way <strong>that</strong> is unexpected,<br />
but seems so right <strong>that</strong> we should have<br />
GET seen FREE it coming. ADVICE!<br />
Where do The the questions best movies forare<br />
about change,<br />
Century Fox our famous Free specifically Advice section about how come the from? characters we<br />
Gerard Rejskind: Mention Our readers this film, send them learn to to us care at uhfmail@uhfmag.com.<br />
about change with time and<br />
and everyone will talk about the famous The questions, what happens and our to answers, them. We expect <strong>that</strong><br />
scene about halfway through, may when appear Sally on line, Harry in and the Sally magazine, will wind or both. up together,<br />
convinces Harry <strong>that</strong> women can fake We don’t despite reply their by efforts mail, to set each other up<br />
orgasms, by having a fake orgasm right and we with don’t others give — it for this free is a romantic comedy<br />
there in a crowded restaurant. if you request Funny <strong>that</strong> your after question all. At the not start be of made the film, public. and even<br />
though this scene is, it is in fact the We least do ask at for its your midpoint, name the and chasm city. between them<br />
convincing one in a movie <strong>that</strong> is rich in is so Ask vast away!<br />
<strong>that</strong> compromise seems impos-<br />
home truths.<br />
sible. Both Harry and Sally do change,<br />
Rob Reiner directed this film, and however, and the way they change is the<br />
<strong>that</strong>’s already a reason to recommend subject of delight after delight. This film<br />
it, but so is the script by Nora Ephron. is a treasure, and its arrival on Blu-ray is<br />
Ephron, who later both wrote and cause for celebration.<br />
directed such films as You’ve Got Mail and<br />
Sleepless in Seattle, has an ear for the way<br />
people talk. Or at least for the way people<br />
wished they talked, or the way they think<br />
they remember talking. The memorable<br />
scenes are so numerous I hardly know<br />
where to begin.<br />
There is of course the opening, in<br />
which Harry and Sally, freshly out of<br />
university, share a ride from Chicago to<br />
New York. Harry (Billy Crystal) is still<br />
an asocial boor, and Sally (Meg Ryan) is<br />
frighteningly high-maintenance. Sally<br />
says she can’t tell Harry her life story<br />
because “nothing has happened to me<br />
yet,” but she is on her way to New York<br />
to become a journalist. “So you can write<br />
about what happens to other people?”<br />
offers Harry.<br />
We see them again five years later, Carlito’s Way (Blu-ray)<br />
and they are mainly older versions of Al Pacino, Penelope Anne Miller<br />
themselves. They meet on a plane, and Universal<br />
74 ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine<br />
Gerard Rejskind: The film opens in<br />
a courtroom, in front of a judge who is<br />
pretty close to <strong>let</strong>ting off steam. Carlito<br />
Brigante (Al Pacino), whom he had<br />
sentenced to 30 years of hard time for<br />
cocaine trafficking, is getting out after<br />
only five because the evidence against<br />
him had been gathered illegally. Carlito<br />
rubs it in: the judge had thought it would<br />
take three decades to rehabilitate him,<br />
but here he is comp<strong>let</strong>ely rehabilitated<br />
after only five. He will never be in<br />
trouble again.<br />
Of course the judge doesn’t believe<br />
him, and neither do we, but he tells<br />
anyone who will listen — and some<br />
who will not — <strong>that</strong> his only ambition<br />
now is to gather a little money and set<br />
up a car rental agency in the Bahamas.<br />
No, not as a cover for drug trafficking<br />
or for laundering money, but to live<br />
in peace where it’s sunny and warm.<br />
He repeats the unlikely pledge to Gail<br />
(Penelope Ann Miller), the girlfriend<br />
he had dumped before being arrested so<br />
<strong>that</strong> she wouldn’t waste her life waiting<br />
for him. She is a dancer, supposedly in<br />
some sort of musical, whose stage turns<br />
out to have a pole in the middle of it.<br />
He wants to get a better life for her too,<br />
though convincing her she won’t just<br />
watch him bleed to death in some alley<br />
will take some doing.<br />
Going straight is not as easy as he has<br />
made it sound, as he discovers his first<br />
day back on the street. “I just have to<br />
make a delivery, it will take 10 minutes,”<br />
a friend tells him. Yeah, sure! As Pacino<br />
said in another gangster film, “Just when<br />
I think I’m out, they pull me back in.”<br />
To earn the money he needs, Carlito<br />
takes a job running a high-class disco<br />
club for a friend. Gee, he couldn’t possibly<br />
run across unsavory characters in<br />
a club, could he? Carlito plays with fire,<br />
blowing off a guy from the Bronx who<br />
is clearly a made man. He figures <strong>that</strong>,<br />
since he doesn’t plan to be there long,<br />
what the hell! Carlito’s old friends have<br />
longer term plans, though, and are reluctant<br />
to burn their bridges. Inevitably<br />
their career paths will diverge.<br />
However, no one he will meet in<br />
the club or in the mean streets of New<br />
York will be any sleazier than Kleinfeld<br />
(Sean Penn), the lawyer who piloted his<br />
successful appeal. Kleinfeld is also an