WHEN HARRY MET SALLY Starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan it is among the three our four romantic comedies that are neither farfetched nor romantic to the point of silliness. It is the story of Harry and Sally. They are two college students who drive together after graduation in Michigan to New York. Over this several hour trip, after Sally rejects Harry’s advances, he informs her that men and women cannot be friends. They run into one another five years later, still disgusted with each other. But four years after that they met up and actually become friends. It seems Harry was right; men and women cannot be friends. After giving into passion one night, followed by months of either fighting or not speaking, they fall in love and marry. It took ten years for two less than perfect people to find their happy ending. For a person who has recently been dumped, this can inspire positive thoughts.
FATAL ATTRACTION The moral of this story is: hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorn OR don’t cheat on the woman you love OR rabbit’s die when psychos boil them. Whatever the moral is, it’s an engaging story of what happens to Michael Douglas when he has a weekend long fling with Glenn Close. This movie can be a purification tool for a person who’s recently been cut loose. From one perspective Glenn Close is an unstable and violent psychopath. But from another perspective she’s only doing what every jilted lover fantasizes. Stalking. Terrorizing. Tormenting. Instead of doing these things, one can watch the movie and root for her.
WAKING THE DEAD Why was this movie overlooked? Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) and Sarah Williams (Jennifer Conelly) are two people who love each other no matter what. Fielding and Sarah both have political aspirations. Fielding chooses to infiltrate the government, while Sarah is a rebel refusing to move within the system. Despite their very different courses of action they always manage to love each other. That is, until Sarah is killed for her cause. Or was she? Ten years after her death, as Fielding is about to be elected to office, he starts seeing and hearing her. Is she a ghost? Or was she just in hiding? I won’t tell you what really happened to her. And it’s not because I don’t want to spoil the movie for you. It’s because it doesn’t matter. Fielding and Sarah are and always will be in love. Ten years separation, a lifetime of separation, could never change that. Wouldn’t we all like to feel that way?
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