A passionate film made by passionate filmmakers for passionate film watchers.

Rating: 9/10 (17 February 2001)

This is a passionate film made by passionate filmmakers for passionate film watchers. There is no way to adequately express my feelings about this film, but still I can't help but try. This film is one of the few in recent viewing that I can watch over and over again, it never tires me. Both Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan do a magnificent job of creating believable, accessible, and extremely memorable characters. Throughout the course of roughly an hour and a half we are granted admission to the evolution of both Harry and Sally and their relationship. Rob Reiner does an excellent job with an equally excellent script by Nora Ephron, and though he has proven his diversity through the myriad of memorable films he has made two constant and undeniable qualities flow through his body of work; truth and humanity. Love between two people is one of the hardest things to portray on screen, but Reiner and his crew do a seamless job of making it not only believable, but interesting and heart warming with out being overly sentimental. Some of the greatest moments are also among the quietest and most subtle, allowing the viewer's appreciation to increase with each viewing. Almost every frame of this film is a thing of beauty and reiterates something that has recently begun to permeate my thoughts and feelings about great films and that is this: while there may be an array of different qualities under the spectrum of great films one common bond that must always exist is passion. You get the sense that this is a film which everyone working on it not only understood and believed in, but felt the film was so important that they were determined to make it the best they possibly could, and they certainly did. The most vital quality a film must possess to be great is relevance to the human experience, in a word universality. When Harry Met Sally possesses this and so much more and it will continue to be universal, accessible, and relevant far beyond its time.