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In 2024, Rob Reiner revealed that portion directing "When Harry Met Sally..." his wife, Michele, was the crushed we ended up with the present iconic ending.
On Dec. 14, quality broke that beloved manager and histrion Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead successful their LA home. He was 78, and she was 68. Authorities are presently investigating the incidental arsenic "an evident homicide." Rob and Michele's 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, was arrested successful transportation with their deaths and is presently successful custody.
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The Los Angeles Fire Department was reportedly called to a location successful Brentwood, and recovered 2 radical — aboriginal confirmed to beryllium Rob and Michele — dormant astatine the scene.
A spokesperson for the household has since shared successful a statement, "It is with profound sorrow that we denote the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner. We are heartbroken by this abrupt loss, and we inquire for privateness during this unbelievably hard time."
Of course, Rob was a legendary director, actor, writer, and producer. He began his vocation arsenic an actor, astir notably starring arsenic Michael "Meathead" Stivic successful Norman Lear's All successful the Family. A relation that earned him 2 Emmy Awards successful 1974 and 1978 for Outstanding Supporting Actor successful a Comedy Series.
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Most recently, helium appeared successful 3 episodes of The Bear in 2025.
Then, from 1984 to 1992, helium went connected what immoderate person called a legendary tally of directing immoderate of the astir influential films successful cinema history, including This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally..., Misery, and A Few Good Men.
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His last movie was directing Spinal Tap II: The End Continues in 2025.
Shortly aft quality broke, celebrated friends began reacting to quality of Rob and Michele's deaths connected societal media. Cary Elwes, who starred successful The Princess Bride, simply wrote "No words" on Instagram, accompanied by a photograph of his and Rob's chairs connected the acceptable of the classical film.
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Meanwhile, fans person been expressing their heavy gratitude for Rob's enactment connected societal media, particularly for When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob and written by the precocious Nora Ephron, this 1989 movie is considered the top rom-com of each clip by a batch of people.
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In lawsuit you're not familiar, the movie follows Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) from the clip they conscionable successful Chicago and thrust to New York City unneurotic aft graduating from college, done a bid of accidental encounters implicit the adjacent 12 years. It's a superb movie from commencement to finish, inspired by the real-life relationships of Rob and Nora.
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Billy adjacent came connected to play Harry due to the fact that helium had been champion friends with Rob since 1975 and knew him amended than anyone.
While When Harry Met Sally... holds truthful galore iconic scenes, there's thing that stops you dormant successful your tracks rather similar watching the infinitesimal erstwhile Harry finds Sally earlier midnight connected New Year's Eve and professes his emotion for her astatine the extremity of the film. It's a cleanable ending to a movie that truly helped specify the will-they-won't-they and friends-to-lovers rom-com genres.
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Now, pursuing his tragic and abrupt death, radical are conscionable discovering that the iconic ending to When Harry Met Sally... was changed by Rob aft helium met his wife, Michele, connected the acceptable of the movie.
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In a 2024 interrogation successful Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?, Rob looked backmost connected his vocation and governmental activism with the CNN host. When it came clip to sermon When Harry Met Sally..., Rob revealed the ending change.
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Rob began, "The archetypal ending of the movie that we had was that Harry and Sally didn't get unneurotic due to the fact that I had been joined [to Penny Marshall] for 10 years. I had been azygous for 10 years, and I couldn't fig retired however I was ever going to beryllium with anybody, and that gave commencement to When Harry Met Sally..."
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"And I hadn't met anybody, and truthful it was going to beryllium the 2 of them seeing each different aft years, talking, and past walking distant from each other," Rob said.
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He continued, saying, "I met my wife, Michele, who I person been joined to present for 35 years. I met her portion we were making the film. And I changed the ending." Rob and Michele got joined successful 1989. They shared 3 children.
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Then, Rob concluded with, "And that what you conscionable saw determination was a code Billy [Crystal] came up with and wrote ... We filmed that ending arsenic a caller ending to the film."
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Chris past tells Rob that we beryllium that "tear-jerking ending" to Michele, which Rob agrees.
and to deliberation we lone got this beauteous country due to the fact that rob reiner met his aboriginal woman during erstwhile harry met sally’s accumulation and fell truthful successful emotion that helium changed the ending truthful harry and sally could extremity up unneurotic too. rip rob reiner and his woman michele :(pic.twitter.com/uKlbHwjH02
— barb (@wilmontouch) December 15, 2025Columbia Pictures / @wilmontouch / Via Twitter: @wilmontouch
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