FilmStubs: When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. (R, 95 min.)
Showtimes
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
7:00 PM
The FilmStubs series is Free and made possible by a grant from Friends of the Library. Stick around for a discussion following the screenings. For more Springfield-Greene County Library events click here.
To accommodate seating capacity, ticket holders must check in no later than 5 minutes past the scheduled showtime. After this time, unclaimed reserved seats will be released to wait listed guests.
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal star as two best friends of the opposite sex in the blockbuster, heartwarming romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally. Harry Burns (Crystal--Analyze This) and Sally Albright (Ryan--In the Land of Women) meet when the share a car on a trip from Chicago to New York right after both graduate from college. As the two build their lives and careers in Manhattan, they find love and heartache--with other people--but their paths continue to cross and their friendship continues to grow over the years ... until they confront the decision whether to let their friendship develop into romance. [Warner Bros]
Starring: Meg Ryay, Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins, Harley Jane Kozak
Director: Rob Reiner
Genre: Comedy, Romance
"A richly satisfying and thoroughly delightful film."
— Hugo Davenport, Daily Telegraph (UK)
"The movie is a signal triumph for virtually all its participants."
— Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News
"Possibly the greatest romantic comedy since Some Like It Hot."
— Wendy Ide, The Times (UK)
"One heck of an entertaining movie, a heartbreaker/heartwarmer."
— Michael H. Price, Michael H. Price
"When Harry Met Sally plays like a very personal film because it is."
— Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
"Nora Ephron’s sharp script brought emotional literacy to relationship comedies."
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
"Rob Reiner gives When Harry Met Sally its own comic life, its own solid identity."
— Mike McGrady, Newsday
"Nora Ephron's screenplay, consistently funny and charming, is her best work by far."
— Adam Mars-Jones, Independent (UK)
"When Harry Met Sally... excels in its dead-on representation of gentle, intimate, everyday truths."
— Henry Mietkiewicz, Toronto Star
"What a pleasure it is to see a warm-hearted, intelligently written comedy in this silly season of pre-fabricated sequels."
— Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News
"Rob Reiner's direction is feather-light, precisely paced and with fine appreciation of the sharp New Yorkisms of the dialogue."
— David Robinson, The Times (UK)
"It has charm and wit and style, three ingredients too often missing from movies and more important, it's mostly very funny."
— Joe Pollack, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"When Harry Met Sally is a beautiful, brainy, touching and lilting romantic comedy that should touch the heartstrings of lovers and those yearning to be in love everywhere."
— Staff, The Hollywood Reporter
"A witty adult comedy whose dissection of sexual mores and relationships between the sexes manages to be delightfully old-fashioned and utterly contemporary in one stroke."
— Lynden Barber, Sydney Morning Herald
"Adding to the urbane atmosphere of this very enjoyable movie is a soundtrack that features New Orleans jazz pianist-singer Harry Connick Jr. and jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles."
— Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
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