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"Harry and Sally"... is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows the title characters from the time they meet just before sharing a cross-country drive, through some twelve years or so of chance encounters in New York City. The film raises the question "Can men and women ever just be friends?"

The whole story starts when Sally gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from University. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: "Would it be possible for a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?"

Curiosity: The lady who says "I'll have what she's having" after Sally's faked orgasm is director Rob Reiner's mother who happened to be visiting the set that day.

The orgasm scene was filmed at Katz's Deli, an actual restaurant in New York. The table at which the scene was filmed now has a plaque on it that reads, "Congratulations! You're sitting where Harry met Sally." HC