When Harry Met Sally by Nora Ephron Page B

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    INT. SALLY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    HARRY’S VOICE     ( CONT’D )    (
singing on answering machine)
“Call me and I’ll be around.”
    Sally just stares
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    INT. HARRY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    HARRY     ( CONT’D )    
(into phone, speaking)
Give me a call.
    He switches off the song machine
    SALLY     
(through filter)
    Hi, Harry.
    INT. HARRY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    HARRY     Hello! Hi, hi! I didn’t think that you would … that you were there.
    INT. SALLY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    HARRY     
(through filter)
    What are you doing?
    SALLY     I was just on my way out.
    HARRY     
(through filter)
    Where are you going?
    SALLY     What do you want, Harry?
    INT. HARRY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    HARRY     Nothing. Nothing, I just called to say I’m sorry.
    INT. SALLY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    SALLY     Okay.
    She waits for him to seize the moment. Which he doesn’t
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    INT. HARRY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    He doesn’t know what else to say
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    INT. SALLY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    SALLY     I gotta go.
    INT. HARRY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    HARRY     Wait a second … wait a second. What areyou doing for New Year’s? Are you going to the Tylers’ party? ’Cause I don’t have a date, and if you don’t have a date, we always said that if neither one of us had a date …
    INT. SALLY’S APARTMENT—DAY
    HARRY     
(through filter)
    … we could be together for New Year’s, and …
    SALLY     Harry, I can’t do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.
    She hangs up
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    INT. HARRY’S APARTMENT—DAY

Harry stands there, listening to the DIAL TONE
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    FADE OUT .
    FADE IN:
    INT. HARRY’S APARTMENT—NIGHT

A tight shot, on television, of DICK CLARK
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    DICK CLARK     
(on television)
And here we are, once again, the sixteenth annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, coming to you live from the heart …
    We PULL BACK TO REVEAL
    Harry lying in bed eating Mallomars and watching Dick Clark on television
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    HARRY     
(Voice-over)
    What’s so bad about this? You have Dick Clark, that’s tradition, you have Mallomars, the greatest cookie of all time, and you’re about to give the Knicks their first championship since 1973.
    Harry aims a toy basketball at a plastic basket mounted on the wall
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    He misses
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    He looks back at the television set
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    CUT TO :
    INT. NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY—NIGHT
    A great big New Year’s Eve party, just like the one we were at a year earlier. The mirrored ball is twirling. Twinkly lights on everyone’s face
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    Sally dancing with a tall man. He dips her. She’s appalled. Upright again, she catches Marie’s eye as the tall man swoops her about the floor. Marie is dancing with Jess
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    SALLY     I don’t know why I let you drag me to this.
    And she’s yanked out of frame
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    CUT TO:
    EXT. STREET—STOREFRONTS—NIGHT

Harry walks along an empty street
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    EXT. DOWNTOWN STREET—NIGHT

Harry walking down the street past shop windows
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    HARRY     
(Voice-over)
    This is much better. Fresh air. I have the streets all to myself. Who needs to be at a big, crowded party pretending to have a good time? Plus this is the perfect time to catch up on my window shopping. This is good.
    He sees a couple across the street standing with their arms around each other in front of a store window. The woman laughs
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    CUT TO:
    INT. NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY—NIGHT

Sally is leaning against a pillar facing a MAN AT THE PARTY, who is telling her a joke
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    MAN AT THE PARTY     So the guy says, “Read the