Spoiler alert: Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) meet in the first five minutes of the film on a cross country road trip in 1977 after they’ve just graduated college. Sharing the drive, they discuss and argue the (very early ’90s) nuances of relationships. Can men and women ever actually be friends? A conversation that ends up spanning years, the two continue to bump into each other and become platonically inseparable, their sparkling chemistry providing us with some of the greatest one-liners of all time as they share everything, from their opinions about sex to a couple of very memorable diner meals. Insert support from their neurotic best friends Jess (Bruno Kirby) and Marie (Carrie Fisher), the sensational collaboration of director Rob Reiner and writer Nora Ephron, the festive season in New York, and a classic “will they, won’t they” romance – you’ve got yourself a smarty pants time capsule of ’90s America.

Nora Ephron! Her Oscar nominated script is a charismatic and (at the time) refreshing finger-jab into men and women and sex and love. Using her journalistic smarts and the personal experiences of both herself and director Rob Reiner (Stand by Me, The Princess Bride) she crafted a sharply suspicious but ultimately romantic yarn about, above all, friendship. Laugh out loud funny with enough guilty pleasure weepy thrown in, it’s the ultimate rom-com.