Together
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INT. NEW YEARâS EVE PARTYâNIGHT
Champagne is popped
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We know itâs New Yearâs Eve because people are wearing funny hats and thereâs one of those mirrored things hanging from the ceiling and casting twinkle lights on a fairly large crowd of revelers in a penthouse apartment somewhere in Manhattan
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A band is PLAYING. Harry and Sally are dancing
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He dips her
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SALLY Â Â Â Â I really want to thank you for taking me out tonight.
HARRY     The during part was good â¦
SALLY     I thought it was good â¦
HARRY Â Â Â Â Oh, donât be silly. And next year, if neither of us is with somebody, youâve got a date.
SALLY Â Â Â Â Deal. See, now we can dance cheek to cheek.
They dance a moment and then the MUSIC ENDS. They go on dancing a bit longer and for a split second we see the beginnings of something ⦠an inkling ⦠a little tender moment. Thenâ
VOICE Â Â Â Â
(Offscreen)
    Hey, everybody, ten seconds to the New Year!
The CROWD begins to count down:
CROWD     Ten, nine â¦
HARRY Â Â Â Â Want to get some air?
SALLY Â Â Â Â Yeah.
CROWD     ⦠eight, seven, six â¦
EXT. NEW YEARâS EVE PARTYâNIGHT
CROWD     ( CONTâD )    ⦠five, four â¦
Harry and Sally go out onto the balcony
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CROWD     ( CONTâD )    ⦠three, two, Happy New Year!
All around Harry and Sally, couples are hugging, kissing, celebrating. It is slightly uncomfortable
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HARRY Â Â Â Â Happy New Year.
SALLY Â Â Â Â Happy New Year.
They kiss quickly and awkwardly
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FADE OUT .
FADE IN:
DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE
A COUPLE on a love seat
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FIFTH WOMAN Â Â Â Â He was the head counselor at the boysâ camp, and I was the head counselor at the girlsâ camp. They had a social one night.
(beat)
And he walked across the room. I thought he was coming to talk to my friend Maxine, because people were always walking across rooms to talk to Maxine, but he was coming to talk to me. And he saidâ
FIFTH MAN Â Â Â Â Iâm Ben Small of the Coney Island Smalls.
FIFTH WOMAN Â Â Â Â And at that moment, I knew, I knew the way you know about a good melon.
FADE OUT .
FADE IN:
EXT. WEST BROADWAY, NEAR RESTAURANTâEARLY EVENING
Sally and her friend Marie walking down the street on their way to a restaurant
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SALLY Â Â Â Â You sent flowers to yourself?
MARIE Â Â Â Â Sixty dollars I spend on this big stupid arrangement of flowers, and I wrote a card that I planned to leave out on the front table where Arthur would just happen to see itâ
SALLY Â Â Â Â What did the card say?
MARIE Â Â Â Â âPlease say yes. Love, Jonathan.â
SALLY Â Â Â Â Did it work?
MARIE Â Â Â Â He never even came over. He forgot this charity thing that his wife was chairman of.
(beat)
Heâs never going to leave her.
SALLY Â Â Â Â Of course he isnât.
MARIE Â Â Â Â Youâre right, youâre right. I know youâre right.
(beat)
Where is this place?
SALLY Â Â Â Â Somewhere in the next block.
MARIE Â Â Â Â Oh, I canât believe Iâm doing this.
SALLY Â Â Â Â Look, Harry is one of my best friends, and you are one of my best friends, and if by some chance you two hit it off, we could all still be friends instead of drifting apart the way you do when you get involved with someone who doesnât know your friends.
MARIE Â Â Â Â You and I havenât drifted apart since I started seeing Arthur.
SALLY Â Â Â Â If Arthur ever left his wife and I actually met him, Iâm sure you and I would drift apart.
MARIE Â Â Â Â Heâs never going to leave her.
SALLY Â Â Â Â Of course he isnât.
MARIE Â Â Â Â Youâre
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