{"id":317241,"date":"2025-12-15T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317241\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:29:08","slug":"rob-reiner-six-classic-movies-from-the-big-hearted-genius-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317241\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Reiner: Six classic movies from the ‘big-hearted genius’ director"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1989, Reiner effectively set the standard for the rom-com genre with When Harry Met Sally.<\/p>\n

It paired Billy Crystal with Meg Ryan as two friends who fall in love, climaxing in one of Hollywood’s most iconic restaurant-based scenes.<\/p>\n

After Ryan’s Sally fakes an orgasm to prove a point, it prompts another customer, played by Reiner’s mother Estelle, to declare: “I’ll have what she’s having!”<\/p>\n

Sydney Sweeney recently delivered the line in a Hellmann’s Super Bowl advert, which acted as a nostalgic parody of the film.<\/p>\n

While directing the film, Reiner was introduced to photographer Michele Singer. The meet cute influenced his decision to change the film’s ending.<\/p>\n

He told Ted Danson’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, external<\/a>: “We started seeing each other during [the making of] this film, and one thing led to another and, you know, I changed the ending of the movie. I didn’t figure I was ever going to be with anybody, I couldn’t figure out how to be with anybody, and I had it where Harry and Sally don’t get together. They run into each other in New York, they talk a little bit and then they walk in opposite directions. <\/p>\n

“But I meet Michele and I said, ‘well, I see how this works’, and I changed it. I reshot the ending where you see Billy running and seeing Meg at the New Year’s Eve party.”<\/p>\n

Reiner and Singer were soon married, going on to have three children together.<\/p>\n

He had been married before, to actress and director Penny Marshall in 1971, adopting her daughter, actress Tracy Reiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1989, Reiner effectively set the standard for the rom-com genre with When Harry Met Sally. It paired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}