When Harry Met Sally

Harry Burns (Crystal) is a normal American guy with a single, unbreakable rule he lives by:

He is totally convinced that men and women cannot be friends, because sex always gets in the way.

He shares this belief at length with anyone who will listen, including one day, Sally Allbright (Ryan) who gives Harry a ride into New York from the University of Chicago at the end of their respective stays there. Sally of course disagrees and they part in New York.

A few years later, they meet up again by accident in a bookstore (then an airport, then a.... you get the idea) and have the same discussions and once more, drift apart.

When this has happened a number of times over the years, each of them falling in and out of love, they form a strong friendship, calling each other in the middle of the night and trying to help the other find true love. They even attempt to set up their best friends (Fisher and Kirby) as a foursome, but when the pairings work out 'differently', Harry and Sally are stuck together again.

In Harry's mind, they are friends because they have talked about the subject so often, they would never, ever consider sleeping together. Until one day when Sally is dumped by a boyfriend and is feeling so low Harry goes round to cheer her up and one thing leads to another.....

Now what happens? Sally is really happy, but Harry is scared. Has he just ruined the best friendship of his life? Has he literally screwed things up? How will she react when he leaves? The answer is, very badly. They don't speak for ages, she refuses to return his calls and slowly, Harry realises that the one thing he hates most about this is not having her in his life.

And now it's New Years Eve...