One of my favorite movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 2002)

I don't know where to start. I loved this film so much when I saw it in theatres back when I was in high school. I saw it several times on video and just loved the ending. I couldn't get over it and watched it over and over. Billy Crystal is fantastic as Harry Burns. Reiner did an amazing job of telling it like it is (at least in my opinion) and discussing how men and women can NOT be friends. The movie mentions many things that we know to be true but either never realize or never discuss. This was the first movie I ever bought on DVD and I still watch it to this day. Mind you, I am a 30-year-old man and the ending still brings me to tears -- "I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out, I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich, I love that you get this little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts, I love that after I spend the day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes and I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night... and it's NOT because I'm lonely and it's NOT because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
I still think that's one of the best monologues ever. Right up there with Hank Fonda's monologue in Grapes of Wrath.