Archive Picks and Pans Review: When Harry Met Sally... By People Staff Published on December 25, 1989 12:00 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan portray two chronically self-absorbed, super-superficial New Yorkers who are probably tiresome enough to deserve each other. But no audience member deserves to be subjected to director Rob Reiner and writer Nora Ephron’s appalling lack of taste in making throwaway jokes out of starvation and assassination.