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Silver Screen Love Lessons: 10 Things You Can -- and Can't -- Learn from Movies

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by Sherry Amatenstein From quirky comedies to sweeping epics, Hollywood loves a good love story -- and so do we! But what can you take away from the theater (other than leftovers from a six-dollar bag of popcorn)? Relationship advice. Here are 10 relationship tips you'll find amid the lights, cameras and all that action. Men and women are never "just friends" In When Harry Met Sally , platonic pals Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal fight their mutual passion for most of the movie. (If they'd given in earlier the film would have been a short!) Not all friends of the opposite sex should fall into bed, but the lesson here is that there will always be a tinge of regret about the road not taken. Sure things might get complicated, but it's usually a risk worth taking. And as Billy Crystal points out early on, chances are that you were never really "just friends" in the first place. Any connection strong enough to sustain a friendship that spans many years is pr...