When Harry Met Sally: Plot Summary

The story of When Harry Met Sally has an unlikely beginning. Sally gives Harry a ride to New York after they have completed college. Sally does not know Harry at the time and she only offers to give him a ride because he is dating her friend. The drive through the night and banter back and forth. Harry states that he believe men and women cannot be friends because sex always gets in the way. Harry makes a verbal pass at Sally but she refuses to engage with him because he is dating her friend. Sally is frustrated by Harry and is content with never seeing him again. As the movie unfolds, the pair bump into each other over the years and then start to form a friendship (even though Harry said that could never happen). Harry and Sally attempt to set each other up with their best friends but their best friends end up falling for each other which leaves Harry and Sally alone again. Harry and Sally sleep together and regret it. Both of them agonize about how to tell the other that it was a mistake. Their relationship suffers under the weight of their mistake. Until Harry barges in on a party that Sally is attending and tells her that he loves her. Sally fights him and then Harry explains to Sally all the reasons why he loves and that he has realized he wants to spend the rest of his life with her and he would like the rest of his life with her. Sally replies that he makes it hard to hate him when talks like that and that she does hate him. They kiss and get married three months later.