When Harry Met Sally


12:05 am - 01:35 am, Monday, December 29 on BBC Three HD (107)

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About this Broadcast

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A man and a woman with different attitudes to life meet by chance and develop a close and long-lasting friendship. But over time, a mutual sexual attraction begins to develop and threatens to ruin their relationship - raising the question whether men and women can ever really be just friends. Romantic comedy, starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan


1989 HD subtitles 16x9
Comedy Movie/Drama Romance

Cast & Crew

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Billy Crystal (Actor) .. Harry Burnside
Meg Ryan (Actor) .. Sally Albright
Carrie Fisher (Actor) .. Marie
Bruno Kirby (Actor) .. Jess
Steven Ford (Actor) .. Joe
Lisa Jane Persky (Actor) .. Alice
Michelle Nicastro (Actor) .. Amanda
Gretchen Palmer (Actor) .. Stewardess
Rob Reiner (Director)

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Did You Know..

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Billy Crystal (Actor) .. Harry Burnside
Born: March 14, 1948 in New York
Best Known For: When Harry Met Sally and City Slickers.
Early-life: William Edward Crystal was born in New York on March 14, 1948. His father was a concert promoter. Billy attended New York University, where he studied film and TV direction. After graduating, he worked as a substitute teacher until he was able to get gigs as a stand-up comedian.
Career: In 1976, Crystal moved to Hollywood and his big break came a year later when he landed the role of gay character Jodie Dallas in the sitcom Soap, which ran for four seasons. After the show ended, Crystal continued to do his stand-up routine and became a regular on Saturday Night Live in 1984. This led to appearances on the big screen in Running Scared (1986) and Throw Momma from the Train (1987). Roles in When Harry Met Sally (1989) and City Slickers (1991) established him as a Hollywood star. He went on to have further success in Analyze This (1999) and America's Sweethearts (2001), but also appeared in a number of flops, including Fathers' Day (1997), My Giant (1998) and Parental Guidance (2012). In 2005, he won a Tony Award for his one-man play, 700 Sundays.
Quote: "In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is, the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it."
Trivia: Crystal hosted the Academy Awards for the first time in 1990, a role he has performed several times since. He provides the voice of Mike Wazowski in Monsters Inc (2001) and its sequel Monsters University (2013).
Meg Ryan (Actor) .. Sally Albright
Born: November 19, 1961 in Fairfield, Connecticut
Best Known For: When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle.
Early-life: Born Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra on November 19, 1961, in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. She is the daughter of casting agents, who divorced in 1976. She has two sisters and a brother. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in a journalism course at New York University. To make ends meet, she began auditioning for small acting roles, using her new moniker - Ryan is her mother's maiden name.
Career: Ryan made her film debut in 1981's Rich and Famous, opposite Candice Bergen. She became a famous face on US TV thanks to a two-year stint on soap As the World Turns. International recognition followed her role in 1986's Top Gun. A year later, Innerspace consolidated her position as a rising star. When Harry Met Sally made her a force to be reckoned with in 1989, and since then, she's appeared in such blockbusters as Sleepless in Seattle, French Kiss, You've Got Mail and controversial thriller In the Cut. Recent projects include The Deal, My Mom's New Boyfriend and The Women.
Quote: "People say that chivalry is dead. I don't think that it's dead, I think it's just got the flu."
Trivia: Was offered the role of "Molly Jensen" in Ghost (1990), but turned it down. The part later went to Demi Moore.
Carrie Fisher (Actor) .. Marie
Born: October 21, 1956 in California
Best Known For: Playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Early-life: Carrie Frances Fisher was born in California on October 21, 1956. She was the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her parents divorced when she was two after Fisher had an affair with Elizabeth Taylor. Carrie had a younger brother and two half-sisters from her father's marriage to singer and actress Connie Stevens. In 1973, Carrie began an 18-month stint at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career: Fisher appeared alongside her mother in the 1973 Broadway revival of the musical Irene, and two years later made her film debut in Shampoo. Her big break came in 1977 when she played Princess Leia in Star Wars: A New Hope. She reprised her role as Leia in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. During the 1980s, she appeared in the Broadway production of Agnes of God, published her first novel, Postcards from the Edge, and starred on the big screen in When Harry Met Sally. She wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film version of Postcards from the Edge, and spent a number of years as a leading Hollywood script doctor. In 2007, she took to the stage to perform her one-woman play Wishful Drinking. In 2015, she returned to her most famous role as Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. She died on December 27, 2016, at the age of 60. A day later, her mother died at the age of 84.
Quote: "I've got a lot of photos of me when I was very young at parties with celebrities, but I don't really remember the people or when the photos were taken."
Trivia: Fisher had publicly discussed her problems with drugs and her struggle with bipolar disorder.
Bruno Kirby (Actor) .. Jess
Steven Ford (Actor) .. Joe
Lisa Jane Persky (Actor) .. Alice
Michelle Nicastro (Actor) .. Amanda
Gretchen Palmer (Actor) .. Stewardess
Rob Reiner (Director)
Born: March 06, 1947 in New York
Best Known For: Directing This Is Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally.
Early-life: Robert Reiner was born in New York on March 6, 1947 to actress Estelle Reiner and comedian Carl Reiner. Rob started out as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1968. In the early 1970s, he made a name for himself in front of the camera playing Michael Stivic in American sitcom All in the Family (the US remake of Till Death Us Do Part).
Career: In the 1980s, Reiner established himself as the director of a number of successful Hollywood films, including This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Stand by Me (1986) and When Harry Met Sally (1989). His directing credits also include Misery (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), The American President (1995), Rumor Has It (2005), The Bucket List (2007) and And So It Goes (2014). He has also made cameos in a number of films and TV shows, including Postcards from the Edge (1990), The First Wives Club (1996), Frasier, Primary Colors (1998), 30 Rock, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and New Girl.
Quote: "People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities."
Trivia: He co-wrote the first episode of American sitcom Happy Days. In 1987, he co-founded film and TV production company Castle Rock Entertainment.

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