When Harry Met Sally (1989) Cast & Characters — QuantCinema

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CAST · WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

Faces & feelings

Per-character screen time, dialogue and emotion breakdown — derived from face recognition + expression classifier across every frame.

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Faces detected

33,227

across full runtime

Named matches

11

actors identified

Close-up shots

17.6%

of all framed shots

Smile rate

11.1%

frames with detected joy

Gender split

62%

38%

M / F · screen-time weighted

Dominant emotion

Neutral 47%

film-wide aggregate

Most expressive

Meg Ryan

85% non-neutral

Lead screen share

55%

11 tracked characters

Overall emotion distribution

7 emotions · all characters · screen-time weighted

Happy

11.1%

3,674 frames

Surprise

5.7%

1,890 frames

Neutral

47.2%

15,680 frames

Fear

7.9%

2,635 frames

Sad

15.7%

5,201 frames

Angry

7.2%

2,378 frames

Disgust

5.3%

1,769 frames

Screen time by actor

11 named · 73m tracked of 95.5m

01

Billy Crystal

as Harry Burns · 5789 scenes

40.2min · 55% of cast

neutral

02

Meg Ryan

as Sally Albright · 2609 scenes

18.1min · 25% of cast

happy

03

Bruno Kirby

as Jess · 1119 scenes

7.8min · 11% of cast

neutral

04

Carrie Fisher

as Marie · 608 scenes

4.2min · 6% of cast

sad

05

Steven Ford

as Joe · 135 scenes

0.9min · 1% of cast

angry

06

Robert Alan Beuth

as Man on Aisle · 101 scenes

0.7min · 1% of cast

sad

07

Lisa Jane Persky

as Alice · 85 scenes

0.6min · 1% of cast

sad

08

Harley Jane Kozak

as Helen · 52 scenes

0.4min · 0% of cast

happy

09

Michelle Nicastro

as Amanda · 21 scenes

0.1min · 0% of cast

happy

10

Franc Luz

as Julian · 11 scenes

0.1min · 0% of cast

neutral

11

Gretchen Palmer

as Stewardess · 5 scenes

0.0min · 0% of cast

happy

Dialogue by character

words spoken · WPM · share of total dialogue

NOTE — speaker matching uses face-detection overlap; actors not recognized by the AI appear as unidentified.

Actor / Character	Words spoken	WPM	% of dialogue
Billy Crystal as Harry Burns	5,639	242.2	48.8%
Meg Ryan as Sally Albright	3,122	238.8	27.0%
Carrie Fisher as Marie	1,115	246.8	9.6%
Bruno Kirby as Jess	947	272.7	8.2%
Unidentified speakers	480	—	4.2%
Steven Ford as Joe	161	226.5	1.4%
Franc Luz as Julian	101	138.2	0.9%

Cast profiles

arc · volatility · emotion breakdown per actor

BC

Billy Crystal

AS HARRY BURNS

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

40m 14s

Scenes

5789

First seen

2:55

Last seen

92:05

Volatility

33 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0023m47m71m95.5m

8%

Happy

7%

Surprise

54%

Neutral

1%

Fear

8%

Sad

15%

Angry

8%

Disgust

MR

Meg Ryan

AS SALLY ALBRIGHT

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

18m 08s

Scenes

2609

First seen

3:19

Last seen

92:05

Volatility

43 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0023m47m71m95.5m

26%

Happy

8%

Surprise

15%

Neutral

5%

Fear

20%

Sad

6%

Angry

20%

Disgust

BK

Bruno Kirby

AS JESS

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

7m 47s

Scenes

1119

First seen

26:07

Last seen

88:26

Volatility

27 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0023m47m71m95.5m

5%

Happy

4%

Surprise

41%

Neutral

1%

Fear

24%

Sad

25%

Angry

2%

Disgust

CF

Carrie Fisher

AS MARIE

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

4m 14s

Scenes

608

First seen

23:27

Last seen

88:26

Volatility

37 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0023m47m71m95.5m

10%

Happy

3%

Surprise

5%

Neutral

7%

Fear

61%

Sad

4%

Angry

11%

Disgust

SF

Steven Ford

AS JOE

● Dominant: angry

Screen time

0m 56s

Scenes

135

First seen

15:05

Last seen

17:20

Volatility

33 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0023m47m71m95.5m

22%

Happy

2%

Surprise

4%

Neutral

0%

Fear

28%

Sad

33%

Angry

12%

Disgust

RA

Robert Alan Beuth

AS MAN ON AISLE

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

0m 42s

Scenes

101

First seen

17:34

Last seen

18:22

Volatility

16 Low

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0023m47m71m95.5m

23%

Happy

0%

Surprise

10%

Neutral

1%

Fear

40%

Sad

27%

Angry

0%

Disgust

LJ

Lisa Jane Persky

AS ALICE

● Dominant: sad

Screen time

0m 35s

Scenes

85

First seen

23:41

Last seen

81:24

Volatility

42 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~3m per bucket

00:0023m47m71m95.5m

27%

Happy

0%

Surprise

2%

Neutral

0%

Fear

39%

Sad

2%

Angry

29%

Disgust

HJ

Harley Jane Kozak

AS HELEN

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

0m 22s

Scenes

52

First seen

58:31

Last seen

59:13

Too few detections for emotion analysis

MN

Michelle Nicastro

AS AMANDA

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

0m 09s

Scenes

21

First seen

2:56

Last seen

4:02

Too few detections for emotion analysis

FL

Franc Luz

AS JULIAN

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

0m 05s

Scenes

11

First seen

65:17

Last seen

65:50

Too few detections for emotion analysis

GP

Gretchen Palmer

AS STEWARDESS

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

0m 02s

Scenes

5

First seen

17:47

Last seen

17:49

Too few detections for emotion analysis

Speaker diarization

talk-time · turns · pacing per speaker

Talk-time share · 12 clusterssums to 100.0% of all dialogue

Crystal 47.2%

Ryan 26.5%

Fisher 9.2%

First-word entry · per speakerdot = first line · trail = on-screen window · 6 ensemble

0:0023:5347:4571:3895:30

runtime

SPEAKER 12

2:15enter

Billy Crystal

2:54enter

Meg Ryan

2:56enter

Bruno Kirby

3:34enter

Carrie Fisher

10:31enter

SPEAKER 29

14:20enter

Franc Luz

14:22enter

Steven Ford

15:04enter

SPEAKER 32

22:39enter

SPEAKER 28

34:39enter

SPEAKER 31

47:28enter

SPEAKER 24

81:21enter

Billy CrystalSPEAKER 02

Rapid exchange

47.2%

of all dialogue · 5,639 words · 23:17 spoken

WPM242.2

Turns875

Avg turn1.8s

Longest28.5s

enters at 2:54profanity 11

Meg RyanSPEAKER 07

Rapid exchange

26.5%

of all dialogue · 3,122 words · 13:05 spoken

WPM238.8

Turns589

Avg turn1.4s

Longest10.3s

enters at 2:56profanity 4

Carrie FisherSPEAKER 14

Rapid exchange

9.2%

of all dialogue · 1,115 words · 4:31 spoken

WPM246.8

Turns256

Avg turn1.3s

Longest11.4s

enters at 10:31profanity 1

Bruno KirbySPEAKER 15

Rapid exchange

7.0%

of all dialogue · 947 words · 3:28 spoken

WPM272.7

Turns211

Avg turn1.1s

Longest6.6s

enters at 3:34profanity 0

Steven FordSPEAKER 21

Conversational

1.4%

of all dialogue · 161 words · 0:43 spoken

WPM226.5

Turns103

Avg turn0.9s

Longest7.3s

enters at 15:04profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 28 · unmatched

Brief

1.2%

of all dialogue · 130 words · 0:37 spoken

WPM211.4

Turns6

Avg turn6.9s

Longest18.7s

enters at 34:39profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 32 · unmatched

Brief

2.4%

of all dialogue · 114 words · 1:10 spoken

WPM97.2

Turns19

Avg turn1.4s

Longest4.6s

enters at 22:39profanity 0

Franc LuzSPEAKER 26

Brief

1.5%

of all dialogue · 101 words · 0:44 spoken

WPM138.2

Turns22

Avg turn2.0s

Longest7.5s

enters at 14:22profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 31 · unmatched

Brief

1.3%

of all dialogue · 84 words · 0:38 spoken

WPM132.7

Turns18

Avg turn3.0s

Longest11.9s

enters at 47:28profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 12 · unmatched

Brief

0.7%

of all dialogue · 60 words · 0:21 spoken

WPM169.6

Turns12

Avg turn1.9s

Longest4.2s

enters at 2:15profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 29 · unmatched

Brief

0.5%

of all dialogue · 53 words · 0:15 spoken

WPM207.3

Turns12

Avg turn1.5s

Longest3.6s

enters at 14:20profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 24 · unmatched

Brief

1.1%

of all dialogue · 39 words · 0:33 spoken

WPM71.8

Turns9

Avg turn3.0s

Longest5.7s

enters at 81:21profanity 0

AGGREGATE — 11 unique characters · 33,227 faces detected · 11 named matches · 73m screen-time tracked