Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict, a little sex. Good stuff for a movie? Good enough for a pair of terrific movies: When Harry Met Sally . . . , written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner; and sex, lies, and videotape, written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Their characters are quick and engaging; they could be the thirtysomething folks on a good day, in a gilded mirror. As Ephron says, "People who live in cities aren't in car chases. We don't get shot at. What we mainly do is talk on the phone and have dinner." Her film and sex, lies serve...
When Ephron met Reiner to discuss a script, she recalls, the director said, "I want to do a movie about two people who become friends and are really happy they become friends because they realize that if they had had sex it would have ruined everything. And they have sex and it ruins everything." Start with randy Harry (Billy Crystal) and precise Sally (Meg Ryan) in the Manhattan of your dreams, at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But are they aware that falling in like can be as dangerous as falling in love? Reiner, who based the film partly...
...erotic attraction. When they do surrender sexually, it is just what Harry feared. "The 'during' part was good," he admits. But postcoitally, while she glows, he glowers. He realizes that as friends they had been making love, with words and caring. Going to bed with Sally was just having sex. And now, like any guy who got what he came for, he wants...
...Somewhere between 30 seconds and all night." What doubt nags at any woman who lets Mr. Right get away? "You'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband." What is the guilty secret of married life? "No sex...
...sex? No problem. In sex, lies, and videotape, Soderbergh suggests that abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. Ann (Andie MacDowell) is a Baton Rouge, La., housewife too decorous to go mad. Things with her lawyer husband John (Peter Gallagher) are fine, she tells her therapist, "except I'm havin' this feeling that I don't want him to touch me." They haven't had sex for a while. At least Ann hasn't; John is pursuing an affair with her lubricious sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). Curiosity is about the only thing that can be aroused in gentle...