When Billy Met Meg.

Rating: 9/10 (30 July 2015)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): Dir: Rob Reiner / Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Bruno Kirby, Carrie Fisher, Harley Jane Kozak: Sensitive romantic comedy suggesting a pivotal moment when two people meet and what spawns from it. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan become friends during college. Crystal is involved with her best friend but they end up sharing a long car ride home. Story jump ahead several years during the course of the film while they struggle with current relationships and confide in each other. Story is predictable but smart with director Rob Reiner avoiding the clichés and settling for clever conversation between people as oppose to props. Crystal tries to figure out what went wrong in his quest for happiness while Ryan pretends to have it all together but underneath she is fragile. They have superb comic chemistry even though we know where they are headed. Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher appear as their friends who seem to have it all together but a double date takes their subplot in a different direction. Harley Jane Kozak appears briefly as Harry's ex-wife, which draws feelings of grief that are only subsided with Sally. Not one of Reiner's best films, which include This is Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride but it is entertaining and enlightening rising above road movie clichés. Intelligent film about how genders view each other. In the end we are glad Harry met Sally. Score: 9 / 10