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‘People We Meet On Vacation’ Stars Tom Blyth And Emily Bader Unpack Key Scenes And ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Comparisons: “There’s Nothing Wrong With Having A North Star”

January 10, 2026

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the People We Meet On Vacation film now streaming on Netflix. Romantic comedy aficionados may point out similarities between Emily Henry’s People We Meet On Vacation and When Harry Met Sally, which the author and film adaptation director Brett Haley confirm, and star Tom Blyth, who plays Alex Nilsen in the movie felt that the Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan starrer was a good guide. People We Meet on Vacation stars Emily Bader as the Poppy Wright to Blyth’s Alex, a pair of friends who travel somewhere every summer, until they have a falling out.

L-R: Emily Bader as Poppy and Tom Blyth as Alex in 'People We Meet on Vacation'

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A Barcelona-set wedding gives them a chance to reconnect and trace what went wrong, which of course lies in their almost crossing the friends-to-lovers boundary.
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I was nervous to even tread into that territory.
But actually, our characters are so different because it’s not like Alex is Billy Crystal, and [Poppy’s] Meg Ryan,” Blyth told Deadline in December.
“They both have qualities of [Harry and Sally] and other qualities.

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‘People We Meet On Vacation’ Stars Tom Blyth And Emily Bader Unpack Key Scenes And ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Comparisons: “There’s Nothing Wrong With Having A North Star”

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