The 1989 film also directed by Rob Reiner asks the famous question if men and women can ever truly be only friends. Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) first meets Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) when they drive to New York together from Chicago after college is over, and during the trip, they argue about whether men and women can have a platonic relationship. The question comes up again years later when they run into each other and become close friends. Throughout the film, married couples tell the story of how they met in documentary-style scenes, and while the couples are played by actors, the stories they tell are all real stories collected by the production team.
