"WHEN HARRY MET SALLY..." (1989)

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Original scnenplay By Nora Ephron -- ---- Rob Reiner ·- ----- Andrew Scb•inm•n

Rev. 8/3/88 8/4/88 8/9/88 8/ll/88 8/12/88 B/15/88 B/16/88 B/17/88 CAS'l'I..EROCKPIC:'!'tJRES 8/19/88 Raleigh Studios B/19/88 650 N. Bronson #308 8/22/88 Hollywood, CA 90028 8/23/88 pink

Copyright (C) 1988 Castle Rock Ent. All Rights Reserved

FADE IN:

1 DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE 1

of an OLDER COUPLE, a MAN and a WOMAN. They"re sitting together on a loveseat looking straight at the CAMERA.

(The documentary dialogue that follows is meant only as an indication; the movie will use real people, not actors, and we will be hearing their actual stories, which will be similar to the ones indicated here.)

FADE IN:

CARD: TEN YEARS AGO

A couple in a clinch.

The young man involved is named HARRY BURNS. He's 26 years old, just graduated from law school. Wearing jeans and a sweatshirt.

He's kissing a young woman named AMANDA. She has long straight hair that she irons. She's about 20. The embrace is fairly melodramatic. They pull back to look at one another.

They begin to kiss again.

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2 A car pulls up right beside them. Stops. Sits there. 2

Driving the car is SALLY ALBRIGHT. She's 21 years old. She's very pretty although not necessarily in an obvious way. She sits there waiting for the kiss to end. It doesn't end. She clears her throat. They don't hear her. She shifts position and accidentally- on-purpose hits the car HORN, which beeps and startles Amanda and Harry into breaking off their clinch. Amanda sees Sally, and she and Harry move over to the car.

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They shake hands.

Harry looks meaningfully at Amanda.

Then he starts to put his stuff -- a duffel bag, a box of records -- into the back seat of the car, where Sally's stuff is, too -- suitcases, stereo speakers, a guitar, boxes of books, a small TV.

AMANDA * Call me. HARRY * I'll call as soon as I get there.

AMANDA * Call me from the road.

HARRY * I'll call before that.

Harry and Amanda exchange longing looks outside the car.

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•...__/ HARRY

I love you, too.

They kias again.

Sally sita waiting, waiting.

She hits the car BORN again. Barry and Amanda break apart.

Harry geta into the car and as it pulls away he and Amanda exchange more "I love you•s• and "I'll call you•a• and "Goodbyes.• --------------------·------- - -- ---·-- --·---------··--------

As the car heads toward whichever highway is relevant. City traffic. Sally drivi11.g. Harry in the passenger seat.

Harry takes out a bunch of grapes, starts to eat them.

I have this all fiCJUrtldout. It's an 18 hour trip, which breaks down to 6 shifts of 3 hours each. Or, alternatively, we could break it

down by mileage. There's a map on the visor, I've marked it to show the locations where we change shifts. You can do three hou:s?

Harry spits a grape seed out the window, which doesn't happen to be down.

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4 CONTIHtJED: 4

BARRY • I'll roll down the window.

After a lengthy silence.

A long avkvard silence.

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4 SALLY 4

The story of my life isn't even going to get u~ out of Chicago. I mean, nothing's happened to me yet. That's why I'm going to New York.

________________ school ~-d b~come_a reporter. ______ _

Sally looks over at Har.:y. Who am I stuck in this car with? She looks back at the road.

As the car tu=s onto the highway.

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friend, is a dark side.

So am I.

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Look, when the shit comes down, I am going to be prepared and you are not, that"s all I"m saying.

SALLY

---·-- ·-------- -- -You-should-be .--lawyer~--The-ldna-tnat-- - -·---.-----

does wills. I think you"d be really good at explaining to people they're going to die.

On Barry's reaction.

6a. · Erl'.CAR - DAY

The car tooling along a beautiful stretch of hiqhway.

6aa. UT. HIGHWAY - DAY 6aa.

The car pulls off the road onto the shoulder. Sally

and Barry get out and switch seats. Barry drives now and the car pulls away leaving rubber and dust.

6b. EXT. CAR EXITING (INDUSTRIAL) - MAGIC HOUR

7 Erl'.CAR - HIGHWAY - LA'l'EAF'l'ERHOON 7

The car is now on a surface road heading towards a motel/diner complex.

Harry is driving. Sally is in the passenger seat.

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(CONTINtJED)

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COlffINOEO: Revised 8/16/88 7 SALLY 7

I don"t want to spend the rest of my life in Casablanca married to a man who runs a bar. 'l'hatprobably sounds very snobbish to you, but I don't.

--'l'necar--stops-·1n·front-o:rt1ua·a1nervhicn-rs- straight·- out of the Fifties.

What?

Harry crosses towards the diner. Sally follows after him.

8 Ilff.DINER 8

As Harry and Sally come in the door. A HOSTESS is waiting.

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B (to the Hostess) B

Table for two.

He crosses away from her towards the table.

SAIJ," It just so happens I have had plenty of qood sex.

This doesn't go unheard by the Hostess and other diners. ··sally,ralks-to the~able;· sits -down.- ---- ·--- •

SAI,X:Y (embarrassed) I'm not going to tell you that.

A long silence.· Maybe they both look at the menu. Maybe.they just sit there.

F;J.I,I,Y Shel Gordon.

8 HARRY (CONT'D) 8

(sort of in a girl's voice) "I love you, Sheldon. Do it to me, Sheldon •. I can't get enough of • you, Sheldon.• It doesn't work.

A WAITRESSapproaches the table.

---------- - -- --·--··----- - -·---·-. HARRY Surprise me.

The Waitress turns to Sally.

As the Waitress leaves, Harry stares in disbelief at Sally.

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B HARRY B

Nothing. So how coma you broke up with Sheldon?

-------- -·want to know-:-· ·--------

After a beat.

had I left Sunday? And I told him, but he didn't believe ma.

ll

8 HARRY 8

Why not?

HARRY

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A beat.

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8 HARRY 8

'l'en.

'l'he Waitressbrings their food •

•

As they eat:

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Ba. EX'l'.DINER - NIGH'l'- RE-ESTABLISH

9 IN'l'.DINER - DOSX 9

They are finishing their meal-. The check arrives. Sally figures out her portion of the bill. She

notices Harry just staring at her.

________________________________ .SALLY...____________ _

(thinking she might have some food on her face, she nervously wipes) What? Do I have•••?

Sally gets up, drops some money on the table and crosses * away. Harry also leaves some money and follows her.

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So you're coming on to me.

She stares at him, than exits the dinar and heads for the car.

I take it back. All right, I take it back.

An awkward pause.

She quickly gets in the car and unlocks his door.

He gets in the car.

(CO:t..-,TINUED)

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g HARRY g

(continuing) See what I did? I didn't let it lie.

SALLY

Harry --

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As the car starts up, and pulls out •••

CtJ'l'TO:

A long silence.

10 HARRY 10

What I'm saying -- and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form -- is that men and women can't be -friends. The sex part always gets in the way.

------- ______HARRY__-----~-- No you don't.

10 SALLY 10

So you're saying a man can be friends with a woman he finds

DISSOLVE ro:

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As the car comes over the George Washington Bridge. A gorgeous day.

Downtown near Washington Square. The car pulls up and Harry hops out grabbing his stuff.

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Sally nods. Harry nods. An awkward 1110111ent.

Sally holds out her hand. They sfiaka.

- --------- --------- -- ---------- --- --------------·-· Harry starts to walk off.

As she drives off.

FADE IN:

13 DOCOMENTARY FOOTAGE 13

Another older COUPLE sitting together on the same love seat we-saw earlier.

HAN

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13 MAN 13

And we haven't been apart one day since then.

FADE IN:

IT'S FIVE YEARS LATER.

A couple in a clinch.

The woman is Sally at 26. She looks great, she's a stylish-young·woman~- She•s ki--ssinga very attractive man with·a beard, although it"s not that easy to see him at the moment. His name is JOE.

Harry is coming down the hallway of the airline terminal. He"s wearing a suit and tie and trenchcoat; he has a kind of attractive-but-rumpled demeanor. He notices the couple kissing. Goes past them. Then stops. Backs up. Be recognizes them.

They're still kissing.

Harry comes closer, peers at the two of them from slightly too close. It's not easy to s- either of their faces. ·

Finally, Sally and Joe become aware that someone is standing nearby, and they stop kissing to look at Harry.

Joe holds out his hand. They shake.

HARRY 14

I thought it was you. · (beat) Still with the D.A.'s office?

Joe nods. Harry nods. An awkward pause. Sally just standing there, wondering if Harry remembers her.

JOE

----- ---Oh""l!arry;-·this.isSallyAlllright~---·

Harry Burns. We used to live in the same building.

\,__./ someplace but

he can't remember where) Hi.

Sally nods.

Harry starts down the long corridor for his plane.

Joe and Sally look at each other.

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14 SALLY 14

Be made a pass at me and when I said no -- he was going with a friend of mine, uh ••• ohGod, I can't r-ember her name; don't

get involved with me, Joe, I"m 26 years old and I can't even remember the name of a person I was such good friends with that I wouldn't get involved with her boyfriend •••

Joe kisses her again.

Another kiss.

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14 SALLY 14

(She loves hearinq this) You do?

1S IN'r.AIRPLANE - DAY 1S

The plane is in flight, an route from Rew York to Washington.

Sally is in a middl.e aaat in a crowded all-coach plane. She has the Rey York Tm• on her lap, but She's ----------staringinto-the--middle~atance,~¾ittle-smile on her face. ·

There's a KAH OH THE AISLE nezt to bar.

In the row in back of her, in the aisle seat, is Barry. His head pops up.

Sally starts to read the newspaper. The Kan on the Aisle looks up at Barry, who's still loorn1nqover them, tryinq to place Sally. Barry pops down.

Sally starts to read again.

Barry pops up again. Popa back down.

The S'l'EWARDESScomes down the aisle with the drink cart, asks Sally for her drink order.

She starts to pour.

then add a splash of the Bloody Kary mix. Just a splash. (CON'rINUED)

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15 Harry's head starts to rise again. 15

Harry pops down.

He pops right back up.

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Reaction from Man on Aisle. *

The Man on the Aisle has been listening and watching all this.

Before Sally can object.

Harry and the Man on the Aisle change seats and Harry sits down next to Sally.

HARRY

15 You were a friend of •..oh jeez. 15

He can't remember her name.

- ------------------------------------SALLY

I have no idea.

After a beat:

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15 SALLY 15

I"m a journalist. I work at the Hews,

• BARRY Great. And you're with Joe. That's 91"9at-- (beat) You guys have been together - what? - three weeks?

' person but actually you're the angel

of death.

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(matter-of- factly). Yep.

HARRY

Yep.

SALLY

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head) You're getting married.

Smiles.

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decide you like each other enough to move on to dinner, you go dancing, you do the white man•a overbite, then you go back to her place, you have aex, and the minute you finish, you know what qoea through your head? (Sally ahakea her head no) Bow long do I have to lie here and hold her before I can get up and go home? Ia 30 aeconda enough?

-- -----------long ao-you-Ilka to-be heicf- -.

afterwards? Al.l night, right? That's the probl-. Somewhere between 30 seconds and all night ia your_ problem•.

The PI.IGB'rAffERI>Alrrannounces that everyone should fasten aeatbelta in preparation for landing in Waahington, o.c.

As the plane lands.

Barry and Sally are on a moving .sidwalk.

You staying over?

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17 Sally looks at him a little suspiciously. 17

HARRY

What? Just friends.

· -- ---·------riqht.-They can+t-be ···:f"riends-~•-~------·

(figuring thi.s out) •••unless both of them are involved with other people. Than they can. This is an -ndmant to the earlier rule. If the tvo people are in relationships the pressure of possible involvement is lifted. (thinking thia

Although that doesn"t work either. Because what happens ia the person you're involved with doaan•t unda:stand why you need to be frienda with the person you're friends with, like it must mean something'• missing from your relationship and you have to go outside to get it, and when you say, no no, it's not true, thare•a nothing missing from our relationship, the person you're involved with accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you're just frienda with, which you probably are, let's face it, who the hell are we kidding, which

brings us back to the original rule before the amendment, which is men and women can't be friends, so where does that leave us?

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17 HARRY 17

Yes, Sally

They look at each other. And shake hands. Though they * have said goodbye, they are now in that awkward place of still going in the same direction. After a beat:

HARRY * I'm going to stop walking for a minute and let you get ahead.

FADE IN: ----- ---·-·-·-·---.------- ----- ----·-~-----.,.- 18 DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE 18

Another OLDERCOUPLEsitting on a loveseat, looking at the CAMERA,

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WOMAN 18

Don't forget Roberta.

FADE O'CT.

FADE IN:

IT'S FIVE YEARS LATER

Sally walking down the street to a restaurant like Petaluma. She looks even prettier now, she's wearing A loose blouse, full skirt, boota.

Two women, MARIE and AI.ICE, at a table for three. Marie is a dark-haired, dark eyed beauty. Alice is cute and plump, a married lady.

Sally comes in and sits down as the others finish giving their drink order to the WAITER.

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20 As Sally's ordering: 20

Sally's done with her order now.

MARIE

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- They JUSt~DOU9'ht_a_ci.Lning~room table. He and his wife just went out and spent $1600 on a dining room table.

is, he's never going to leave her.

jJ.

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What? MARIE When? SALLY Monday.

SALLY

I just said to myself, you deserve more than this, you' re 31 years old --

MARIE/ALICE (together) -- and the clock is ticking.

.....

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20 Marie takes her rclodex out of her satchel and 20 starts to look through it.

She flips through the rclodax and pulls out a card.

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20 SALLY 20

You fixed me up with hi.m six years ago.

Marie takes Ken Da.rman's rolodex card and dog-ears a • corner of it and places it in a section at the back • of.the box. Then she pulls out another card.

-- - -------·---- -- ·-- ------~------ MARIE (continuing) Wait, wait, I got it, I got it --

someone right away in case he's about to die?

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20 MARIE (CONT'D) 20

will and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband. •

A wave is in progress. It sweeps around the stadium and passes by Harry and his friend, JESS, sitting in the second deck, surrounded by Mets fans. It's fall, they're both wearing jeans and windbreakers.

Harry is very despondent.

A wave comes through the crowd and Harry and Jess stand and wave their hands.

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21 JESS

ooh, that's harsh.

They sit down.

------------------------ can't believe- ..it.----"I.c·~--'---t......bel'--...,,._____..

this,• I say, and the doorbell rings.• "I can sublet his apartment.• * The words are still in the air, the words are still hanging there like in a little balloon connected to her mouth. JESS Like a cartoon. *

A second wave comes through and Harry and Jess stand and wave their hands.

Jo

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21 HARRY 21

Mister Zero knew.

-HARRY---------- I followed her and I stood outside the building.

Another wave comes through and they stand up. They sit down.

Harry just looks at him. •

22 O!IIT

Sally 4IldMarie st4Ilding in the bookstore in a section called Personal Relationships. A shelf full of books. Marie is looking at something like "Smart Women, Foolish Choices.• Sally is looking at something like "Safe Sex in D4IlgerousTimes.•

So I just happened to ·seehis American Express bill.

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Well, he was shaving, 4Ildthere it was in his briefcase.

You"re missing the point. I"m telling you what I found. (beat) Be spent $120 on a nightgown for his wife. (beat) I don't think he's ever going to leave her.

You're right, you're right. I know you're right.

Marie looks up for a moment for a new book, sees something.

Someone is staring at you in * Personal Growth.

23 Sally glances over to the Personal Growth 23

section. There's Harry.

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23 SALLY 23

Al.so,he never remembers me.

Marie is exiting down the stairs. She waves.

Sally turns back to llllrry. She shrugs.

------- HARRY How ya doing?

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Not so good. I'm getting a divorce.

Halloween.

as. What happened?

a tax atto:ney.

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Sally and Harry having coffee, or maybe a glass of wine.

When Joe and I started seeing each other, we wanted exactly the same thing, we wanted to live together but we weren't going to get married because every time everyone we knew got married, it ruined their relationship, they practically never had sex again. It's true, it's one of the secrets no one ever tells you. I would sit around with my girlfriends who had kids -- well, actually, my one girlfriend who had kids, Alice, and she would complain about how she and Gary never did it any more. She didn't even complain about

-··----------- --- -±t now- LhaL--Z-""thj;nk-about··i"t,·shejust--

said it matter-of-factly. They were up all night, they were both exhausted all the time,the kids just took every sexual impulse they had out of them, and Joe and I used to talk about it and say, we're so lucky, we have this wonderful relationship, we can have sex on the kitchen floor and not worry about the kid walking in, we can fly off to Rome on a moment's notice, and then one day I was taking Alice's little girl for the afternoon. I'd promised to take her to the circus, and we • were in a cab playing "I spy• -- you know, I spy a lamppost, I spy a mailbox -- and she • looked out the window and there was this man and this woman with two little kids, the man had one of the kids on his shoulders, and Alice's little girl said, "I spy a family,• and I started to cry. You know, I just started crying, and I went home, and I said, the thing is, Joe, we never do fly off to Rome on a moment's notice.

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24 SALLY 24

Not once. It's this very cold and hard Mexican ceramic tile. Anyway, we talked about it for a long time, and I said, this is what I want,

• and he said, well, I don't, and I said,

I guess it's over and he left, and the truth is I feel really fine. I am over him. I really am over him. That was it for him, that was the most he could give, and every time I think about it, I'm more and more convinced I did the right thing. .

----------Yeah.------·-·-··- - ----· - ·---·--

Harry and Sally walking together. The sun is setting.

Sally laughing. A nice moment.

25 HARRY 25

You did, too. You were just so up tight. Now you're much softer.

___________ ____ w.it.h_the___possibili.t.y_that__itmight__

have something to do with you.

Sally smiles, then after a beat, she makes the smallest of moves.

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You may be the first attractive woman I have not wanted to sleep with in my entire life.

As they continue to walk along, we ...

FADE IN:

26 DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE 26

A series of QUICK CUTS of different OLDER COUPLES, each of them sitting on a loveseat and looking at the CAMERA.

FIRST OLDER COUPLE

27 SECONDOLDER COUPLE 27

28 THIRD OLDER COUPLE 28

29 FOURTHOLDER COUPLE 29

30 FIFTH OLDER COUPLE 30

FADE IH:

A TIGHT SHOT of one of those toy felt birds that somehow is able to miraculously keep dunking its beak into a glass of water.

WIDERto reveal Harry is sitting in his office staring blankly at this ornithological phenomenon. As Harry stares we hear the sound of a phone ringing. It is picked up by Sally.

As Harry continues to stare at the bird, we hear a few lines of dialogue from Casablanca: •of all the gin joints, etc••• •

As the Casablanca dialogue continues, we

Harry is trying to hang a picture in what is an otherwise virtually empty apartment. He checks the picure for placement against the wall,

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32 HARRY ( 0 • S • ) 32

Now, you"re telling me you would be happier with Victor LAzlo than with Humphrey Boge.rt?

Holcling his finger on the spot ha gently taps the nail into the wall.

SIIJ,Y (O.S.) I never said that. I would never have said that.

Harry gives the nail one more tap, and a big chunk of plaster·comes ··cue-·orthe-wa11-.-.Harry surveys it,-then decides to leave the picture against the wall on the floor. He walks away.

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33 IN'l'.HARRY'S APARTMENT - DAY 33

Harry is sitting in his one chair, t:ying to read a book. He has a thermometer in his mouth. He can't concentrate. He keeps reacling the same paragraph over and over. Finally, he flips to the last page and reads.

with something. Last night I was up at four in the morning watching Leave It To Beaver in Spanish. (imitating) Buenos dias, Senora Cleaver. Conde esta Wallace y Theodore? (as himself) I'm not well.

CtrT TO:

45 G

Throughout the following, we see a series of shots showing:

34 Sally busily typing in her office; 34

35 Sally shopping in Bloomingdales; 35

36 Sally tap dancing in a studio; 36

37 Sally picking up groceries; 37

38 Sally fixing dinner, chopping. Setting table, 38 "being good to herself,•

39 Harry and Sally walking out of a movie theater 39 and down the street. It is DAY.

-- -------- ------ - Sally is going through a very detailed ordering session. The waiter is trying to k-p up. Barry just stares.

Harry and Sally are walking along. Sally spots a mailbox, stops, opens her purse and pulls out a stack of mail. She proceeds to place the mail in the box, one letter at a time, checking to see that each letter has safely entered the box. Harry stands impatiently waiting.

41 SALLY ( 0 • S • ) 41

I found this book that gives you some really good tips on how to ..enjoy being alone.

Harry"s impatience with Sally's letter mailing has -·· --·.-- - .gotten-the--best of him.-He impulsively-grabs-the - remaining letters in her hand, opens the box, shoves them in; then hustles her off.

42-47 OKIT

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Sally in bed on the phone watching Casablanca on TV and talki.ng to:

Harry in bed on the phone watching Casablanca.

Cut back and forth or use split screen.

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.. SALLY Well, I just want it the way I want it.

Sally smiling.

Bogart says, "Louie, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.•

_______ As the.-1110Yie_enrt,...s..____

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He starts moaning.

As he continues to moan, they hang up.

FADE IN:

Harry and Sally walking past a Henry Moore sculpture.

Harry and Sally in the park on a gorgeous fall day. They're sharing a big pretzel. *

5¢0A

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-----·--· ----~- HARRY ----·-----·---·

-That•.--it?- A faceless guy rips off your clothes. And that"s the sex fantasy you"ve been having since you were twelve? Exactly the same?

Harry and Sally are walking through the Egyptian temple exhibit.

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No. Answer the question. Do you want to

go to a movie tonight?

I'd love to Barry, but I can't.

What do you have, a hot date?

Really?

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SALLY

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-- - -------.---- ----- ---Maybe '*

I ·w-ill. -

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Harry and Sa.llya.re unrolling a new rug.

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school and she says Michigan State and

it reminds me of Helen, and all of a

sudden I'm in the middle of this massive anxiety attack, and my heart's beating like a wild man, and I'm sweating like a pig.

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SCEBES 54/55 Olll'l'

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Harry and Jess with bats in hand as the machine waits for them to put in quarters.

HARRY· What do you mean?

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Two NINE-YEAR-OLDS are waiting to use the batting cage and are watching Barry and Jess just stand there.

HINE-YEAR-OLD tl Are you finished batting?

---- -----·- ------""HARRY - ··-- -

I got a whole pocketful of quarters and I was here first, okay?

No, it's just different. It's a whole different perspective. I get a woman's point of view on things. She tells me about the men she goes out with and I can talk to her about the women I see.

You tell her about other women?

You made a woman meow?

_____ _______ ___ ______get_.herJ.nto_bed,__Ican just_be myself. ___ _

You made a woman meow?

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S6a EXT. CARNEGIE DELICATESSEN- DAY • Establishing shot.

S7 INT. CARNEGIE DELICATESSEN - DAY S7

Harry and Sally each about to eat large pastrami. sandwiches.

57 HARRY 57

Why are you getting so upset? This isn't about you.

BARRY

___ ____ L think they-have -an--okay--time-,

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___________.________________ .:,S.aA.i.l.i.l.:iY---------------

Nothing. It's justthat allmen are sure itnever happensto themand all women atone timeor anotherhave done it. You dothe math.

Sally juststares atHarry. A seductivelook comes on herface. Slowly shelaughs intothe beginningofwhat buildsto be a wild orgasm.

BARRY

Are youalright?

God, honey,honey,ociGod, honey,oh God oh God,oh God, God. Thank you.

Sally finishes,takesanotherbite of hersandwich. Smiles innocently.

HOLDon Harry,in shock. And therest of thecustomersand thewaiters who couldn'thelp butoverhearSally's performance.

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It's Christmas in New York. Sally and Harry, bundled up against the cold, a.restanding at the Christmas tree stand on the corner, trying to figure out which one to buy. Sally finally chooses one and pays for it.

She and Harry pick it up together, one holding the top and the other the bottom, and start to carry i.t to Sally's. Together.

SSA IN'l'.SALLY'S KITCHEN - DAY SBA

Sally has a pastry tube in her hands and she's sitting at a tabla writing names on Christmas cookies with her friend, Alice, and Alice's five-year-old daughter, AKY.

SALLY

_________ ~s_ nam_e_w~ _~l'?()nd~adley. Don't *

even bother commi.t.ingit-to -memory;

Amy puts her hand out, as if she was going to be mani- cured, and Sally decorates her nails with icing.

Sally has finished manicuring Amy's nails and starts to write Harry's name on a Christmas cookie.

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SBa CONTINUED: SBa

SALLY

No. Whenever something important happens he just goes outside, opens up the mason jar, scoops up some air,

caps it and la.belait.

SII,I,Y Because that's just it. We're friends.

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SCEHE 59 OllIT

We know it's New Year"s Eve because people are wearing funny hats and there's one of those mi=ored things hanging from the ceiling and casting twinkle lights on a fairly large crowd of revelers in a large room some- where in Manhattan.

A band is playing. Harry and Sally are dancing. Harry • dips her.

-------- ------- - HARRY

Forget it. And next year, if neither one of us is with somebody, you've got a date.

6~64

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60 SALLY 60

It's a deal.

They dance for a moment. He glances at Sally and for a split second we see the beginnings of some- thing...an inkling ...a little tender moment.

HARRY

Do you want to get some air?

They cross out onto the deck.

someone?

And now we hear 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-l Happy New Year.

Everyone kisses.

Harry and Sally kiss. It is very awkward, should it be platonic, should it be more? ·

They break. It is slightly uncomfortable.

FADE IN:

61 DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE 61

Another series of QUICK CUTS of different OLDER COUPLES, each of them sitting on a loveseat and looking at the CAMERA.

OLDER COUPLE A

62 OLDER COUPLE B 62

--- - . .-.roMAHB --- ·-·-· My brother said, there's a new man at the office, he's very tall --

63 OLDER COUPLE C 63

64 OLDER COUPLEA AGAIN 64

65 OLDER COUPLED 65

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66 OLDER COUPLE E 66

67 OLDER COUPLE A AGAIN 67

Sally and her friend, Marie, walking down the street on their way to a restaurant.

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68 SALLY 68

Of course he isn't.

and you are one of my best friends, and if by some chance you two hit it off,·we could all still be friends instead of drifting apart the way you do when you get involved with someone who doesn't know your friends.

Harry and his friend Jess coming down the street.

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(they walk on) If she's so great, _why aren't xgy taking her out?

Revised 8/21/Se(Y,

Jess makes a •precisely my point• gesture.

HARRY (CONT'D)

___ _.What?

Harry glares at him.

Harry, Jess, Sally and Marie at a table. A waiter has just brought them drinks.

Revised 8/23/8861 MARIE'

70 Oh really? 70

They- al1..-iooltat·-each-other.---

Then they look at their menus.

Sally shoots Harry a look.

)g

•

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70 MARIE 70

You did?

Jess nods.

Everyone nods.

An awkward pause.

in-flightmagazine.

at a tablein a restaurantlike this.

Harry andSally look on asMarieand Jess startto chatter.

70a EXT. RESTAURANT- NIGHT

As Harry,Sally, Jessand Marie come outof therestaurant.

to walk a little?

All threerespond with,"Sure, sure."

70A

They startto walk upthe avenue. All four ofthem in a row, ad libbingaboutthe meal andwhat a nicenight it is. Theywalk past ashoe store,and Marie suddenlyyanks Sally over,ostensiblyto look atthe shoes.

The twomen keep walking.

SALLY

Do you likehim?

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71 MARIE 71

Harry? Yeah, he's nice. But ... how do you feel about Jess?

--- ---- -------s,AU;y- -- - -- --

You want to go out with Jess.

HARRYAND JESS

apparently in the midst of an identical conversation. They're stopped in front of a running equipment store.

'...

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72 HARRY 72

Well, no. No. (beat) But for tonight you shouldn't ..• Sally"s very vulnerable. I mean, you can call Marie, it's fine, in a week, you know, after a decent interval, but don't make any moves tonight.

The women join them.

- JESS (continuing) Well. -- -----(neat)------ I don't feel like walking any more, I think I'll get a cab.

The cab SCREECHESto a halt and Jess and Marie get into it and it pulls away, leaving Sally an~ Harry on the curb.

They look at each other.

72A

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FADE IN:

73 DOCUMENTARYFOOTAGE 73

COUPLE A AGAIN

• WOMANA Buthe didn'tpay any attentiontome that day. He washanging arounda fancy-schmantzy girlnamed RebeccaDraper,and I didn'tlike him-

CONTINUED: Revised B/23.'BB

73 MAN A 73

And I didn't like her, and that's the truth.

FADE IN:

One of- those-places -with giftsfor peopTe wnonave -- - .-------- everything, Harry and Sally browsing through. There"s a remote-controlled blimp, a giant Swiss Army knife, etc.

She picks up a pith helmet with a battery-operated !an in it, puts it down .indisgust.

He turns on one of thoae machines that allows you to sing the lead to the backup vocal and instrumental on a song. Ha:ry puts in one of the cassettes there. Immediately the INSTRUMENTAL for The Surrey With the Fringe on Top comes on.

Harry starts singing giddily.

He's really carried away, goes on singing.

CONTINUED: Revised 8/22/88 74 And now Sally joins in singing too, as the absurd 74 and dizzy instrumental continues.

They sing along, and they both get more and more idiotic. Suddenly Harry turns pale and stops singing.

Sally continues on for a moment and then notices some- thing' s wrong.

The backup music continues as she stops, too.

SALLY

------ -------·---·-·--What-'-S-th-e-m-a+-t+-te-:r-?-"I+-t-+-•-s-m-y-·voice,isn't

it. You hate my voice. I have a terrible voice, I know. Joe hated it. Every time I would sing something, he would say, please don't si!lg• HARRY It's Helen. SALLY What? HARRY It's Helen. She's right there. Coming right at me.

The backup vocal continues, as we see coming toward Harry a dark-haired, very chic woman. HELEN, accompanied by a tall, attractive man, IRA.

They shake hands. It's very awkward. Harry suddenly remembers Sally.

CONTINUED: Revised 8/22/88 74 SALLY 74

Hi.

A terrible moment. Harry about to faint.

A smile, and they move on. HOLDon Harry, about to faint.

Harry looks like one of those cartoon characters who's been struck on the head with a malle·t.

SCEHE 75 OKIT •

Sally is paying for a plant. Harry is just staring blankly into a ficus. Sally approaches.

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76 HARRY 76

I'm fine. It had to happen at some point. In a city of eight million people you're bound to run into your ·former wife. So it happened. And now I'm fine.

SCENE 77 OMIT

-- ---7-&- I-NT,--JESS-ANDMARIE'S APARTMENT - DAY- - 78

h nice West Side floor-through with a beautiful fireplace and a great deal of furniture -- ·about twice as much furniture as is necessary as a matter of fact.

Marie and Jess in sneakers, jeans, baggy shirts, are clearly in the middle of some sort of dispute as Harry sets down the plant. Sally oohs and aahs about the apartment, the paint job, etc. Harry is still distracted. There.are a few unpacked boxes -- some books, a couple of ashtrays, a glass, etc.

(to JESS) Okay, Okay,we'll letHarry and Sallybe the judge. (to Sallyand Harry) What do vouthink of it? -

Mariepoints to alarge wagon wheelthat'sbeen made into a coffeetable witha round plateglass overit.

Harrylooks at Jess,who's glaringat him.

HARRY

It'snice.

JESS

Case closed

78 Jess smiles, victorious. 78

Sally crinkles up her nose.

Marie looks at him. Of course she doesn't like his bar stools.

Jess turns to Harry for help.

Harry, we now see, has sat down in a lone chair by the window and he's staring out like a forlorn figure in a Magritte painting.

No response from Harry.

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78 CONTINUED& 7l1

' JESS I have good taste.

•

Harry stands up, looKs around theroom.

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78 HARRY (CONT'D) 78

(shouting now) I mean it. I mean it. Put your name in your books. Now, while you're unpacking them,·before they get all mixed up together and you can't remember whose is whose. Because someday, believe it or not, you're going to be fighting over who"s going to get this coffee table, this stupid wagon wheel coffee table.

Harry slams out the door.

Sally looks at Jess and Marie.

Sally goes out the door, leaving Jess and Marie.

Harry pacing in front of the stoop. Sally comes down the steps.

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79 SALLY 79

Yes. There are times and places for things.

a little anger when I'm being told how to live my life by Miss Hospital Corners. -sALLY____ _

You•re about to cross the line Harry.

loss. I've had my mourning period. I'm done with it.

CONTINUED; Rev. 8/19/88

79 HARRY 79

What mourning period? One hour in Bloomingdale's. You bought a pocketbook and hean:break flew right out the w;Lndow.

Sally storms back into .thebuilding. Harxy follows.

-----------·--- Sally storms back out into the street. Harxy follows her down the street.

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79 CONTINUED; 79

SALLY

Barry. * •

Sally makes a locking her lip motion. She then throws away the imaginary key. Harry complies with her instruc- tions. He then silently points back to Jess and Maries' indicating "should we go back inside". Sally nods. As they walk back into the house, Harry starts to speak, Sally makes the locking gest=e again. Again, Harry complies. They walk back up the steps and into the house.

It·s all furnished now, very comfortab.J~,--no~__lav:ish.___ --A --courdercy-couch-,roes--ofbooks ariarecords , a couple - of quilts hanging over the backs of chairs. No wagon wheel coffee table. A game of Win, Lose or Draw is in progress. Sally"s team consists of Harry, Alice and Jess. EMILY, Harry's data, is snuggled up against him. Alica's husband, GARY, Maria and JULIAN, Sally"s date, are pa.rtof the other team.

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Sally is feverishly drawing what is supposed to be

a baby.

Sally shakes •no• and keeps drawing.

Sally nods yes and writes the word "BABY" on the paper. She continues to draw what looks like a big mouth.

---~----··----- -·----·---·----------------- JESS Planet of the Apes.

Sally now has drawn what looks like arrows on lines coming out of the mouth.

;f84

-------- Ha-.---ryshoots--Jes-s-a--loo.lc-;-----------------

-f 84A-

Ad lib •yes•s•.

Sally and Marie head towards the kitchen.

----· ----- EMILY.--- Where's the bathroom?

Emily gives Harry a kiss as she heads away. Sally notices this. As Julian, Alice and Gary recap the game,

As they go off.

*Bl INT. KITCHEN Bl*

Sally and Marie go about getting the coffee ready.

*82 INT. DEN 82*

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CU':TO:

-;f-94C:..

*87 INT. KITCHEN 87*

*87a INT. DEN 87a•

as-Yr

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Harry in bed reading, trying not to look at the last page, but finally he can't help h.illlself.As he flips to the last page,

'l'hephone RINGS.

He reaches for the phone and answers it.

- ------·-HARRY__--· Yeah. I was just finishing a book.

INTERCUTTHE FOLLOWING

SALLY

89a Could you come over? 89a

HARRY

89b What's the matter? 89b

SALLY

89c He's getting married. 89c

HARRY

89d Juli.an? 89d

SALLY

89e No. Joe. 89e

Harry comes out of the elevator in a hurry, rings Sally·s bell.

Sally opens the door. She's wearing sweat pants and a sweat shirt. She looks terrible. A big red nose.

She starts to cry.

Harry puts his arms around her.

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~o CONTINUED: 90

She goes on sobbing. Barry holding her.

Sally pulls back and gives a huge wheeze.

Sally starts into the apartment.

Sally enters the room, goes for the Kleenex, blows her nose, then sits on the bed. Barry sits next to her.

Sally starts to cry again.

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• SALLY

No. But why didn't he want to marry me? Why didn't he love me? What's the matter with me?

Crying even harder now.

CONTINUED: Revised 8/22/88 91 HARRY(CONT'D) 91

(she smiles a little) C'mere, c'mere, c'mere. (he gives her a hug) It's going to be all right. You'll be okay. SALLY I'm making a mess on your sweater.

Harry holds her. He gives her a kiss, starts to break the hug.

Harry holds her. After a beat, Sally looks up at him, almost searching for something, finally she kisses him. A hungry, needy kiss. Harry is caught slightly off guard, but returns the kiss. As they begin to passion- ately make love •••

They've made love. Both of them lying in bed, Sally is in Barry's arms. Sally has a smile on her face. Barry stares straight ahead.

Harry nods.

After a pause.

,,"

CONTINUED: Revised 8/23/88 ,~

92 HARRY 92

Okay. Water.

Sally at the sink, running some water into two glasses with ice.

HOLD on her face, a little smile breaks through.

Harry lying in Sally"s bed, still staring straight ahead. In the room is a stuffed animal of some sort, maybe Sally"s old teddy bear, a pink quilt.

HOLDon his face,·-pet:ritied.

As Sally comes back from the kitchen with ice water and into:

Harry is sitting up in bed, with the light on, looking through a box of index cards.

Sally gets into bed next to him.

Sally hands him the water.

A silence while Harry desultorily goes through the box.

Unbelievably awkward.

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CONTINUED: 96

Every SOUND is louder than it actually is. The riffle of the index cards. Sally taking a gulp of water. Harry rearranging his pillow.

A pause.

--------m.RRY -- Sure.

· They turn out the lights. HOLDon them lying there.

Harry flips off the light. *

Harry closes his eyes.

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Sally's are open. HOLD on her. She closes them. ..

Harry's· open. ..

And HOLD on them lying there. •

Sally fast asleep. Harry wide awake, staring at the digital clock which says 4:06 a.m.

Sally in bed asleep. -The clock now says 5:59 a.m. It CLICKS to 6 a.m.

Sally wakes up. Sees the other half of the bed, empty. Where's Harry? She turns over and sees him, getting dressed.

•

•

Sally stares at him.

LC- •Revised 8/23./8fi"

-- --- -- Harry gives her a little kiss, walks out.

HOLD on her in bed as the door slams.

Next to her is the phone.

A bed with two phones on either side. Jess and Marie asleep in bed.·

The phone on Marie's side of the bed starts to RING.

Marie and Jess both wake up. Look at the clock. They can't believe how early it is.

It RINGS again.

Marie picks up the phone, pulls the phone onto the bed.

99 MARIE 99

Hello. SALLY (through filter) I'm sorry to call so early

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The phone RINGS on Jess' side of the bed.

-HARRY ------------ Jess,I think thedepth of ourfriendship••• *

99/ SPLITSCREENnow, so that wecan see Marieand 99/ 100/ Jessin_ theirbedon their phones,talkingto 100/ 101/ Sallyin her apartmentat thefar right,and Harry 101

on apay phone inthe streetat the far left.

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99/ CONTINUED: 99/ ' 100/ 100/ l0l HARRY l0l

short...

SALLY HARRY

We did it. We did it.

JESS MARIE

(whispering to Marie) (whispering to Jess) They did it. They did it.

JESS MARIE

How was it? How WAS it?

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99/ CONTINUED: 99/ 100/ HARRY 100/ 101 ...but after, I started feeling 101

suffocated. SALLY ..•but then I guess it wasn't.

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99/ CONTINUED: 99/ 100/ HARRY 100 101 Who's that talking? 101

JESS MARIE

Do you want to come over. Do you want to come over for breakfast? for breakfast?

Marie and Jess look at each o_ther~ horrified.

JESS MARIE

Good. Good.

Everyone hangs up.

Sally and Harry vanish from ~he sides of the screen.

102 HOLD on Marie and Jess. 102

Marie looks at Jess.·

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Jess puts his arms around her and holds her.

Sally looking at herself in the mirror as she puts on makeup.

Harry is showering in his own shower.

As before.

9a/1rB

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Jess puts his arms around her and holds her.

__ 103 INT._SALLY.'SBATHROOJ! - DAY ___....-·-__________ .l.0.3

Sally looking at herself in the mirror as she puts on makeup..

Harry is showering in his own shower.

As before.

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106 rNT. HARRY'S BATHROOM - DAY 106

Harry still showering.

as the waiter brings Herry and Sally drinks. Both of them take a gulp.

_ _ _____ Bot~ 9f__them take _swigs of _their-water~-

Sally nods.

A pause.

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107 HARRY 107

Me, too.

Harry nodding.

Sally nodding.

Well that's that.

The waiter brings their salads.

They start to eat.

They eat.

Silence.

we .hear the .FOBES i!'ge;n•tthe plates •.-...--· ···

More silence.

just showshow reallycomfortableyouare.

HOLD on the scene as they go on eating in silence.

HOLD.

HOLD.

FADE IN:

108 DOCtJMEHTARYFOOTAGE 108

Another OLDER COUPLEon a lcveseat.

CONTINUED: Revised 8/3/88 108 WOMAN (CONT'D) 108

trolley heading home, which I was, and who should sit next to me but my friend Louise. She says to me, let's go get an ice cream soda at Walgreen's. We always went to Walgreen's. So we get there, we sit down at the counter and I say, let me have a black and white, that's a chocolate soda with vanilla ice cream, and you know what the guy says to me? We're out of vanilla ice cream. How can you be out of vanilla ice cream? So Louise says, order something else, but my heart is set on a black and white. So we go over to Armstrong- Shroeder, where you should know I never went in my whole life before or since. So there we are, dr-inkTnginy-bTack-and wliit.e-;when----- who should walk in but my brother's friend Stanley, who's just bought a new car. A Deusen.berg, he tells me, come to the street and see it. so there I am, looking at the car, when who should come up but this handsome man -- (indicating the Older Man beside her) -- who says, "That's a beauty, what kind is it?" A Deusenberg, I tell him. (beat) So if it wasn't for a broken projector, I would be sitting here talking to you alone.

Harry and Jess fast-walking along.

Sure, Harry.

ll0 INT. DEPARTMENT STORE DRESSING ROOM._ DAY ll0

We can see Marie in her underclothes, Sally in a chair.

------ - - -- --wedding?-------- -------- ---

* Marie is trying on a very traditional white wedding * dress with a train and a veil.

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llO CONTINUED: llO

Sally's eyes start to well with tears.

FADE IN:

lll INT. PUCK BLDG. - THE WEDDING - AFTERNOON lll *

The wedding. A winter wedding with pine boughs and holly.

Marie in her wedding dress with a gorgeous bouquet of

room with her father and Sally, who's the maid of · honor.

A chamber MUSIC quartet is playing something by Mozart as they all come down the aisle to a judge-who's stand- ing at the head of the aisle next to Jess and Harry, his best man.

Harry looks at Sally as she comes down the aisle.

Sally looks at him for a moment, looks away.

ll2 INT. PUC:&BLDG. - WEDDING RECEPTION, ENTRANCE 112 * ANDKITCHEN - AFTERNOON

A BANDis playing.

Sally is talking to an older couple, who excuse them- selves, and as they do we see Harry approach her.

Sally is clearly uncomfortable. She's going to behave like someone who simply is not going to get involved or even pretend interest in the conversation.

(CONTJ:NUED)

112 HARRY 112

Boy, the holidays are rough. Every year I just try to get from the day before Thanksgiving to the day after New Year's.

Sally nods.

Harry nods. Sally nods.

A WAITER comes up with a tray of hors d'oeuvres.

She takes one.

A pause.

Sally looks at him.

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I don ' twant to talk a.bout it.·

Sally looks at him disbelievingly.

Harry throws up his hands as if it's self-expianatory.

HARRY

Yes. SALLY I'm the dog?

People are starting to notice the intensity of the conversation.

Sally is really furious now. She starts toward a large screen that's a few feet from the end of the room, thin.king they can get some privacy if she gets behind it.

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112 SALLY 112

I don"t see that, Harry. If anyone's a dog, you a.rethe dog. To you this is something that just happened and you think you can say

• great, it happened, now let's get

on with it, we'll go back to the way it was, like what happened didn't mean anything --

They reach the screen, but there's no getting behind it -- there are folded chairs and the bass player's bass case and the drummer's drwn suitcases, etc. Sally reverses and starts toward a door out of the room. Harry follows.

--··-··------- it-have-to mean everything?

They go through the door Sally was heading for and now

they're in the kitchen. Waiters a.re banging by with trays, dumping glasses into the sink, opening champagne etc. Harry and Sally shouting now over the DIN.

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Second of all, I don't expect anything from you, okay?

__________ that_ night__to_make.love to you.

That's not why I went there. But what was I supposed to do? You looked

at me with those big weepy eyes. "Don't go home tonight, Barry, hold me a li~tle longer, Harry.•

Sally slaps Harry across the face, Then bursts out of the kitchen with a stunned Harry right behind her.

The entire wedding party is assembled around the band- stand.

The band is PLAYING some kind of musical riff that signals that attention must be paid. Sally comes to a stop. Harry is just behind her. There's a crowd of guests assembled in a knot with Jess and Marie, their arms around each other, standing there with their champagne glasses. Jess is in front of the microphone. · (CONTINUED)

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The entire crowd tUDUS toward the two of them •

• JESS To Harry and Sally. If Marie or I had found either of them remotely attractive we would not be here today.

Everyone laughs and raises their glasses to Harry and Sally.

Marie takes her wedding bouquet and lobs it into the air straight at Sally.

For a moment we think that Sally isn't going to make a move for it, she's just going to let it land on the floor. ---"- -- But at the -lait-moment-she reaches out- and-catches -it.

HOLD on her.

MUSIC HERE.

114 CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK 114 Everywhere you look, twinkly lights and happy children and people carrying home big presents and Santa Clauses RINGING bells on the street corners.

llS EXT. 96TH STREET - XMAS TREE STAND - DAY llS

Sally, in jeans and a plaid jacket, has just bought her ~hristmas tree, and the salesman has finished putting plastic netting around it. Sally starts to carry the tree. It's very heavy, the top of it is dragging slightly behind her and she's leaving a little trail of pine needles behind her as she starts home, but she's going to carry this damn tree home alone if it kills her.

As we watch her carry the tree home, we hear a BEEP on Sally's machine.

(MORE)

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Sally listens to her machine as she puts away gro- ceries.

Harry is pacing around his living room, phone in hand.

HARRY (CONT'D)

(beat; beat) I '11take this as a sign you.' re not home. Or else you are home with that cretin you"ve been dating. And if he's there with you now, please understand when I say cretin, I mean it in the best possible sense of the word.

Sally, not picking up.

HARRY'S VOICE (CONT'D)

You there? No. Okay. Well, call me back.

BEEP. Hold on a still upset Sally.

Harry and Jess are stopped at a hot dog stand.

,1.,1.1,1

120 OlllT Revised B/22/88

Harry singing on the phone. The back-up music machine is going.

Sally enters carrying shopping bags.

BARRY (O.S.)

Call me, don"t be afraid you can call me.

BEEP,

Sally just stares.

Finally she picks up the phone.

'*

And cut back and forth:

lll

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PAGE 112 DELffED

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No response.

She hangs up.

SCENE 125 0IU'1'

SCERE 126 0IU'1'

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127 Err. TDIE SQUARE - HIGHT 127

A tight shot of DIClC CLARI:, We pull back to reveal.

Harry ia lying in bed eating pistachio nuta, watching Dick Clark on televiaion.

Harry aims a wadded piece of paper, a whifflaball, at a basketball hoop over the door to his bad.room.

He misses.

He looks back at the television set~

His mind drifts and we POSH IN ON HIS FACE

And now we see:

New Year 's Eve. A year earlier.

Harry and Sally are dancing. Harry dips Sally. Sally is laughing. And we hear her voice.

SAIJ,Y (V ,0,) Do you think the fact that we"re friends is keeping us from finding someone?

.....

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SCE11E129 01lIT

Barry, thinking about what_juat -nt through ~s mind.

131 IN'!'.NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY - NIGH'l' 131

A great big Nev Year's Eve party, just like the one we were at a year earlier. The mirrored ball is twirling. Tv.i.nklelights on everyone'• face.

Sally dancing with a tall man. Be dips her. She's • appalled. Upright again, she catches Karie's eye as the tall man avoopa her about the floor.· Ka.rie is dancing with Jeaa.

And she's dipped again. •

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•

Harry walki.ng down the at:-t past ahop windova.

He passes a COUPLE. The WOMAH is laughing.

POSH IN ON HARRY'S FACJ!:.We aNs

Harry and Sally in the 'l'empleof Dendur. Pepper. Pepper. Pepper. Pepper. Sally ia laughing. Over it we hear:

SCERE: 133 0Jln'

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134 Err. DOWNTOWN S'l'R!:E'!'-NIGH'l' 134

Ba..--ry,more aqitated by hi.a thouqhta • Be walks into an ice cream store.

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Sally is lauqhing merrily at a joke some man haa just told her. Karie passes her by. Sally turns her face quickly toward Jlarie,her face quickly passing from happiness to anguish.

&\TJ,~ (mouthing the words) I'm going home.

Sally turns back to the man who told the joke, the • smile replastered onto her face.

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Ha:ry is walking along the same place he was dropped off by Sally eleven year• ago. Be haa an ice cream cone.

He dumps the ice cream in a trash can. Be stops and looks up at the arch.

And we aae the scene in Washington Square eleven years ago. Harry and Sally are saying qoodbye. They shake hands awkwardly.

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Harry back in reality. Thinking about what just happened in his mind. He feels the cold and tu.ms his collar up, then starts walking slowly away from the arch. We stay • with Harry as his pace start to quicken and finally ends with him running down the street.

139 IN'l'.NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY - NIGHT 139

It's almost midnight. Balloons, confetti, the mirrored ball .apinning alowly around.

The excit-ent in the room builds as we approach midnight.

we see Sally with a group of friends, including Jeaa and Marie.

- ----SALLY - (going for her coat) I'm going.

139a EXT. STREET - NIGHT 139a

Ha~ is still running, looking for a cab. He can't find one. He keeps running.

139b IN'l',PARTY - NIGHT 139b

Sally at the closet, putting on her coat.

139c EXT. STREET - NIGHT 139c Harry running down the str-t.

139d IN'l',PARTY - NIGHT 139d Sally is kissing Jess and Marie goodbye.

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139d CONTINUED:

She turns to go.

She stops dead in her tracks.

It's Harry.

Slowly he comes towards her, and stops in front of her.

Sally tu..s-nsandwalks off, parting the crowd.

Harry follows her like a te=ier.

During the following, we hear the countdown to the New Year, after which eve:-yone breaks into "Happy New Year•, confetti flies, eve:-yone is kissing and breaking into Auld Lang Syne.

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139d. CONTIHUED: 139d.

IWUtY Wall, how does it work?

Beat.

IWUtY Bow about this way. I love bow you • get cold when it's 62 deqreas out. • I love the way your 1110Uthturns down • just a little bit, right there. I love • bow it takes you an hour and a half to • order a sandwich. I·...,.nlcwed wben • you used my awaater for a kl-naz. I • love it that after apending the day with • you I can ati.ll •-ll your perflme on • my_ clothe• •.__Ilove bow you' re the last • person I want to.talk to before I go • · to sleep at night. It took - • eleven years to figure this out. And I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend thereat of • your life with someone, you want thereat • of your life to start u soon as possible.

(CONTIHUED)

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139d CONTINtJED1 139d*

She starts to cry.

Harry puts his arms around her.

They kiss.

A long kiss.

The twinkle ball goes around, twinkling.

They go on kissing.

Auld Lang Syne continues in the background.

They start to kiss again.

And as the camera PULLS tJPaway from them.

l39d SALLY (V.O.) l39d *

You didn't hate me, I hated you. (beat) The second time we met he didn't even remember me.

140 A COUPLE ON A LOVESEAT 140

Harry and Sally together. Looking AT the Cll'..ERA.

And as they continue on, we --