Haven’t I heard

that story before?It’s the same old song… just a different beat

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

• Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan

meet, don’t like each other

• Billy Crystal has his sidekick

Bruno Kirby, Meg Ryan has

Carrie Fischer

• Both Billy and Meg go out

with different people

• At the end, they come

together

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

• Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks

meet (in person), don’t like each

other

• Meg has her sidekicks

(employees), Tom has Dabney

Coleman (father) and Dave

Chapelle (employee)

• Tom’s girlfriend is Parker

Posey, Meg’s boyfriend is Greg

Kinnear

• Finally at the end, they come

together

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

• Meg Ryan writes to Tom

Hanks, but he doesn’t want

to meet her

• Meg has her sidekick (Rosie

O’Donnell), Tom’s is played

by Rob Reiner

• Tom goes out with Barbara

Garrick, Meg with Bill

Pullman

• In the end, they come

together

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

• Bill Pullman meets Sandra

Bullock, who claims to be

engaged to his brother (who

is in a coma) and doesn’t

trust her

• Bill’s “sidekick” is his

father, Sandra’s is her boss

• Sandra almost marries Bill’s

brother

• In the end, she and Bill get

together

My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

• Julia Roberts is best friends with Dermot Mulroney

• Her (male) “sidekick” is her boss, Rupert Everett, his is his fiance, Cameron Diaz

• She tries to break up their relationship to win him for herself, but only gets him angry at her when she breaks up their engagement

• In the end, she restores the friendship by bringing them back together. The film ends with him married to his sidekick and her dancing with her sidekick

Legally Blonde (2001)

• Reese Witherspoon meets

Luke Wilson, but is trying

to win back Matthew Davis

• Her sidekick is her dog, or

maybe Jennifer Coolidge; his

sidekick is his boss, Victor

Garber

• She ignores Luke while

trying to win back her ex

• In the end, she realizes that

Luke is the one for her

Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

• Reese Witherspoon is

separated from Josh Lucas

and wants to marry Patrick

Dempsey

• Her sidekick is an old friend,

his is the entire town

• She tries everything possible

to get Josh to agree to a

divorce

• In the end, she leaves

Patrick Dempsey and goes

back to him

The Wedding Planner (2001)

• Jennifer Lopez is planning

Matthew McConnaghey’s

wedding

• Her sidekick is her father,

his is his fiance

• His fiance puts them

together a lot and they fall

in love

• In the end, he doesn’t marry

his fiance and comes to her

How to lose a guy in 10 days (2003)• Matthew McConnaghey makes a bet to go out with Kate Hudson, who is writing an

article on how to dump a boyfriend

• Matthew’s sidekicks are the friends he made a bet with, Kate’s is the boss who

assigned the task

• They both find out about what the other was trying to do and break up

• In the end, they get together