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Tomatometer: 8,3 of 10 star / release date: 1989 / genres: Romance / Directors: Rob Reiner / Score: 183010 vote / 95m. Are you planning to do TV series? There are plenty of good writing like Fargo or Black Mirror. It¡Çs a fact! Ten of them, in fact. All about the comedians from Canada who created the strangest sketch show since that famous flying circus. Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Dave Foley, and Bruce McCulloch. After launching the pilot episode on both CBC and HBO in 1988, The Kids in the Hall ?which made its series debut a year later?brought an irreverent, chaotic brand of comedy to the airwaves as a kind of antidote to Saturday Night Live 's pop culture-heavy format. The series contorted and skewered real life, stretching satire to its furthest limits with recurring characters like the chauvinistic Cabbage Head, the explosive Chicken Lady, and others that weren¡Çt human-animal/vegetable hybrids. And it's about to make a comeback! Twenty-five years after airing its final episode, Variety reports that a revival of The Kids in the Hall will be coming to Amazon as its first original Canadian series. Though no release date has been announced for the revival, let¡Çs crush our heads together for some facts about the purveyors of brain candy. 1. The Kids in the Hall adopted their name from a Sid Caesar gag. Whenever Sid Caesar bombed a joke, he¡Çd say that it had been written by ¡Èthe kids in the hall, ¡É referring to the young upstarts working for him in the NBC studio of Your Show of Shows. Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald were big Caesar fans, but they didn¡Çt choose the name solely because of that admiration. The ¡Èkids¡É Caesar was goofing on in the 1950s included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and others who the new ¡ÈKids¡É also loved. 2. The Kids in the Hall avoided conversations about the nature of comedy. There¡Çs a cottage industry of comedians waxing comically about being funny (think Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee), and it makes sense to assume funny people are always discussing what makes things funny. Yet The Kids in the Hall shied away from navel gazing. ¡ÈThere was always a pooh-poohing of theoretical discussions, ¡É Mark McKinney told Vulture. McCulloch added that ¡Èwhenever we¡Çd have a theoretical conversation about comedy, we¡Çd stop because we knew if we kept at it, we¡Çd break up. " 3. The "head crusher" made his debut much earlier than The Kids in the Hall series. One of The Kids in the Hall's most famous characters was the Head Crusher, in which McKinney played a delusional (or was he? ) man who tried to crush people¡Çs heads by squinting through his thumb and forefinger. It turns out that he¡Çs been a champion against yuppiedom since the beginning. ¡ÈIt was something that I created back in our club days, ¡É McKinney told Esquire. ¡ÈKevin and I were having lunch, and we were broke. I think we were splitting a sandwich. We were feeling really poor, and we were having lunch in an area of Toronto called Bay Street which is kind of like Wall Street, so there were a lot of people in very expensive suits all around us talking loud, and I just started crushing their heads, like, ¡ÆYou think you so good? I crush your head! ¡Ç And we immediately thought it was funny. " 4. It was a The Kids in the Hall fan who gave them cow eyes. The Kids in the Hall attracted a curious fanbase, including one fan in Vancouver who gave them a jar of cow eyes. But it wasn¡Çt just a gift: He put them out on a plate and asked the Kids to chow down. ¡ÈWe didn¡Çt eat that, ¡É McDonald told The A. V. Club. 5. Saturday Night Live almost broke The Kids in the Hall up before they even got going. McDonald and Dave Foley were performing as The Kids in the Hall before the group formed into the Voltron of cross-dressing comedy we know. Likewise, McCulloch and McKinney were working together in the improv world. They met and started doing comedy together as The Kids in the Hall, eventually pulling in Thompson in 1985, but that was around the same time that Saturday Night Live came calling for McCulloch and McKinney. They wrote for the iconic show for only a season, necessitating a brief hiatus from the Kids, and when they got back together, it was SNL guru Lorne Michaels who saw their act and set the gears in motion for The Kids in the Hall TV show. 6. The Kids in the Hall made only one (super divisive) movie together. Many TV comedies have tried to make the jump to feature films by trying to make their humor appeal to an even larger audience. That¡Çs not what The Kids in the Hall did. They actually went even weirder when they made 1996¡Çs Brain Candy, a film about a struggling pharmaceutical company that hits on a potent antidepressant which becomes a massive success (except when it drives people into comas where they relive their favorite memories on loop). It featured several characters from their show alongside many new ones, and was so divisive that Siskel and Ebert all but yelled at each other while reviewing it (Siskel loved it; Ebert... not so much). 7. Brain Candy was made under incredibly depressing circumstances. A cult film through and through (read: a box office flop), Brain Candy also represented the end of the road for The Kids in the Hall. It came after their TV show was over, and when the group's members were forging their own paths. Foley, who¡Çd found mainstream success with NewsRadio, left the group over creative differences, and lost his writing credit and his main role in Brain Candy. It was a strain on a group that was already buckling, but they were also dealing with a lot of personal problems. ¡ÈIn the period of a month, Dave¡Çs marriage broke up, one of Kevin¡Çs parents died, and my brother committed suicide, ¡É Thompson later explained. ¡ÈI was pretty much in shock. My brother died literally a week before we started shooting. All those things conspired to make it a dark time. ¡É Not to mention they were making a comedy about depression. 8. The Kids in the Hall stand by their most controversial gag. One Kids in the Hall character who made the leap to their movie also ruffled a lot of feathers for those who couldn¡Çt tell where the satirical line had been drawn. Cancer Boy was meant to mock celebrities who sought the spotlight with sick children, but a lot of people thought it was a bad taste jab aimed at the kids. The studio desperately wanted the character cut, and Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it the film¡Çs ¡Èworst idea, ¡É but the Kids defend it to this day. ¡ÈI love Cancer Boy more than anybody, ¡É McCulloch, who portrayed the character, told The A. Club. ¡ÈI was tired of the way that little kids with cancer were used by celebrities for photo ops. If the kid goes into remission, does Wayne Gretzky still visit him? ¡É The other cast members echoed that support for the controversial joke. 9. ¡ÈGirl Drink Drunk¡É had an unhappy origin. In another famous sketch, Foley plays a ¡Ègrown man¡É corporate climber peer pressured into having alcohol for the first time. Eventually, the drinks that ¡Ètaste like candy¡É ruin his life, hilariously. For McDonald, the idea for the gag came from a ruinous performance when McCulloch bombed throughout a show and then scolded the group, which depressed McDonald to hit a bar with McKinney. The winos at the bar depressed him more, and McKinney convinced him to have his very first drink, a margarita, because ¡Èit takes just like candy. " 10. The Kids in the Hall reformed to make a murder mystery. The dissolution of the group after Brain Candy wasn¡Çt the end for The Kids in the Hall. They¡Çve reunited a few times in the past two decades for live tours, but The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town was their first time returning to television, and the result is something tonally similar to their sketch show while structurally divergent. It follows a single story?the murder of the mayor of a small town vying to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Oh, and the scythe-wielding personification of Death has checked into a local motel. It¡Çs still profoundly goofy and seriously silly?and bodes well for their Amazon revival series.
I found this movie thoroughly and surprisingly enjoyable. I am sure anyone can relate to it.

In some ways it is now dated: hairstyles, technology and attitudes for example, but this in no way detracts from the marvelous script. I wonder where the influences came from and what it influenced in the future: Seinfeld and Sex in the City spring to mind as of course (I believe) are set in New York. Another possibility is the Before trilogy. I am sure there are many more. I also wonder if it was entirely scripted or if there was a fair amount of ad-libbing. If you haven't seen it before, it is definitely one for the watch list.

When Harry Met Sally¡Ä Theatrical release poster Directed by Rob Reiner Produced by Rob Reiner Andrew Scheinman Nora Ephron Written by Nora Ephron Starring Billy Crystal Meg Ryan Carrie Fisher Bruno Kirby Music by Marc Shaiman Harry Connick Jr. Cinematography Barry Sonnenfeld Edited by Robert Leighton Production company Castle Rock Entertainment Nelson Entertainment Distributed by Columbia Pictures Release date July?21,?1989 Running time 96 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $16 million Box office $92. 8 million When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows the title characters from the time they meet just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve years of chance encounters in New York City. The film raises the question "Can men and women ever just be friends? " and advances many ideas about relationships that became household concepts, such as "high-maintenance" [1] and the "transitional person". [2] The origins of the film were derived from Reiner's return to single life after a divorce. An interview Ephron conducted with Reiner provided the basis for Harry. Sally was based on Ephron and some of her friends. Crystal came on board and made his own contributions to the screenplay, making Harry funnier. Ephron supplied the structure of the film with much of the dialogue based on the real-life friendship between Reiner and Crystal. The soundtrack consists of standards performed by Harry Connick Jr., with a big band and orchestra arranged by Marc Shaiman. For his work on the soundtrack, Connick won his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance. Columbia Pictures released When Harry Met Sally... in select cities, letting word of mouth generate interest, before gradually expanding distribution. The film grossed $92. 8 million in North America. Ephron received a British Academy Film Award, an Oscar nomination, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for her screenplay. The film is ranked 23rd on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs list of the top comedy films in American cinema and number 60 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". In early 2004, the film was adapted for the stage in a production starring Luke Perry and Alyson Hannigan. Plot [ edit] In 1977, Harry Burns and Sally Albright graduate from the University of Chicago and share the drive to New York City, where Sally is beginning journalism school and Harry is starting a career. Harry is dating Sally's friend Amanda. During the drive, Harry and Sally discuss their differing ideas about relationships; Sally disagrees with Harry's assertion that men and women cannot be friends as "the sex part gets in the way". At a diner, Harry tells Sally she is attractive, and she angrily accuses him of making a pass at her. They part in New York on unfriendly terms. Five years later, Harry and Sally find themselves on the same flight. Sally is dating Harry's neighbor Joe, and Harry is engaged to Helen, which surprises Sally. Harry suggests they become friends, forcing him to qualify his previous position about the impossibility of male-female friendships. They separate, concluding that they will not be friends. Harry and Sally run into each other again in a bookstore five years later. They have coffee and talk about their previous relationships; Sally and Joe broke up because she wanted a family and he did not want to marry, and Harry's wife Helen left him for another man. They take a walk and become friends. They have late-night phone conversations, go to dinner, and spend time together, discussing their love lives. During a New Year's Eve party, Harry and Sally find themselves attracted to each other. Even though they remain friends, they set each other up with their respective best friends, Marie and Jess. When the four go to a restaurant, Marie and Jess become fast friends and later become engaged. Over the phone, Sally tearfully tells Harry that her ex is getting married. He rushes to her apartment to comfort her, and they have sex; Harry leaves the next morning distressed. Their friendship cools until a heated argument at Jess and Marie's wedding dinner. Harry attempts to mend his friendship with Sally, but she feels that they cannot be friends. At a New Year's Eve party that year, Sally feels alone without Harry by her side. Harry spends New Year's alone, walking around the city. As Sally decides to leave the party early, Harry appears and declares his love for her. She argues that the only reason he is there is because he is lonely, but he lists the many things he realized he loves about her. They kiss and marry three months later, exactly 12 years and three months after their first meeting. The plot also contains several interlaced segments throughout the film where fictitious older married couples narrate to the camera their stories of how they met. The last couple that is interviewed before the closing credits is Harry and Sally. Cast [ edit] Billy Crystal as Harry Burns Meg Ryan as Sally Albright Carrie Fisher as Marie Fisher Bruno Kirby as Jess Fisher Steven Ford as Joe Lisa Jane Persky as Alice Michelle Nicastro as Amanda Reese Kevin Rooney as Ira Stone Harley Kozak as Helen Hillson Estelle Reiner as Female Customer Production [ edit] In 1984, director Rob Reiner, producer Andy Scheinman and writer Nora Ephron met over lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York City to develop a project. [3] Reiner pitched an idea for a film that Ephron rejected. [4] The second meeting transformed into a long discussion about Reiner and Scheinman's lives as single men. Reiner remembers, "I was in the middle of my single life. I'd been divorced for a while. I'd been out a number of times, all these disastrous, confusing relationships one after another. " [5] The next time they all met, Reiner said that he had always wanted to do a film about two people who become friends and do not have sex because they know it will ruin their relationship but have sex anyway. Ephron liked the idea, and Reiner acquired a deal at a studio. [3] For materials, Ephron interviewed Reiner and Scheinman about their lives, creating the basis for Harry. Reiner was constantly depressed and pessimistic yet funny. Ephron also got bits of dialogue from these interviews. [3] She worked on several drafts over the years while Reiner made Stand By Me and The Princess Bride. [4] Billy Crystal "experienced vicariously" Reiner's (his best friend at the time) return to single life after divorcing comedian/filmmaker Penny Marshall and in the process was unconsciously doing research for the role of Harry. [3] During the screenwriting process when Ephron would not feel like writing, she would interview people who worked for the production company. Some of the interviews appeared in the film as the interludes between certain scenes featuring couples talking about how they met, [3] although the material was rewritten and reshot with actors. [6] For example, in the scene where Sally and Harry appear on a split-screen, talking on the telephone while watching their respective television sets, channel surfing, was something that Crystal and Reiner did every night. [6] Originally, Ephron wanted to call the film How They Met and went through several different titles. Reiner even started a contest with the crew during principal photography: whoever came up with the title won a case of champagne. [4] In order to get into the lonely mindset of Harry when he was divorced and single, Crystal stayed by himself in a separate room from the cast and crew while they were shooting in Manhattan. [6] The script initially ended with Harry and Sally remaining friends and not pursuing a romantic relationship because she felt that was "the true ending", as did Reiner. [4] Eventually, Ephron and Reiner realized that it would be a more appropriate ending for them to marry, though they admit that this is generally not a realistic outcome. [7] When posed the film's central question, can men and women just be friends, Ryan replied, "Yes, men and women can just be friends. I have a lot of platonic (male) friends, and sex doesn't get in the way. " Crystal said, "I'm a little more optimistic than Harry. But I think it is difficult. Men basically act like stray dogs in front of a supermarket. I do have platonic (women) friends, but not best, best, best friends. " [8] Rob Reiner initially envisioned actress Susan Dey for the role of Sally Albright. [ citation needed] When she declined, he later considered Elizabeth Perkins. [ citation needed] He also considered casting Elizabeth McGovern. [ citation needed] Molly Ringwald was almost cast, but Meg Ryan convinced Reiner to give her the role. [ citation needed] Reiner's mother Estelle and daughter Tracy both played roles in the film. Katz's Delicatessen scene [ edit] Film still from the famous restaurant scene Katz's Deli still hangs this sign above the table. In a scene featuring the two title characters having lunch at Katz's Delicatessen in Manhattan, the couple are arguing about a man's ability to recognize when a woman is faking an orgasm. Sally claims that men cannot tell the difference, and to prove her point, she vividly (fully clothed) fakes one as other diners watch. The scene ends with Sally casually returning to her meal as a nearby patron (played by Reiner's mother) places her order: "I'll have what she's having. " When Estelle Reiner died at age 94 in 2008, The New York Times referred to her as the woman "who delivered one of the most memorably funny lines in movie history". [9] This scene was shot again and again, and Ryan demonstrated her fake orgasms for hours. [7] Katz's Deli still hangs a sign above the table that says, "Where Harry met Sally... hope you have what she had! " [10] [11] This classic scene was born when the film started to focus too much on Harry. Crystal remembers saying, "'We need something
The trailer basically gave away the whole movie. I was sooooo uncomfortable but so entertained. Probably because Im in a library but I forgot my headphones... Its great how we panic when we really love something, while ending up running to it. Carrie Fisher was my favorite in this movie.? I met her a few years ago.? You'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else is married to your husband.? AND He's never gonna leave her.? Those 2 sentences define my existence.? Carrie is like my wise old aunt.