Can men and women be friends or does sex always get in the way?

Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Burno Kirby, Carrie Fisher, Steven Ford, Lisa Jane Persky, Michelle Nicastro, Harley Kozak

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★ - perfect

DML Top 50 #18 - Dad's Full (Spoiler) Review and Deep Dive of When Harry Met Sally...

"No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her." - Harry Burns

Why watch this? The heartfelt and completely real performances by Crystal and Ryan are a thing of beauty.

Plot Summary: Over the course of several years, two university graduates, Harry and Sally, share a number of chance encounters and extended conversations during which they continually debate the possibility of platonic friendship between men and women. The film chronicles their individual romantic lives and the development of their complicated friendship following their respective cross-country moves to New York City. Eventually, the pair must confront the possibility that they may have romantic feelings for each other after all.

Dad's Preview: There is no better film that deals with the fragile, and often comical, entity known as the 'human relationship'. It really is a thing that's unclassifiable. The courtship (mating ritual?) between men and women follows no rules. Each encounter is different. There's no perfect recipe. Some work, some don't. It's a crap shoot; a roll of the dice. However, if you play, and don't rush it, it just might work out. Once again Rob Reiner proves that he's a great director.

Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Ent.; Columbia Pictures