Meg Ryan roles followed, including appearances in "Charles in Charge", "Armed and Dangerous", "Amityville 3-D" and "Promised Land"; for her role in the lattermost she received her first Independent Spirit Award nomination. In 1986, she played Carole Bradshaw, the wife of Naval Flight Officer Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (played by Anthony Edwards) in "Top Gun". Ryan appeared in the film "Innerspace" (1987) with her future husband Dennis Quaid, and later in the remake of "D.O.A." (1988) and in "The Presidio" (1988). Her first leading role was the romantic comedy film "When Harry Met Sally..." (1989), which paired her with comedic leading man Billy
When a Man Loves a Woman (film) moral atmosphere of dogged and literal-minded persistence" which "overvalues its own sobriety". Roger Ebert, himself a recovering alcoholic, wrote review of the movie praising its artistic qualities just in passing (“I couldn't find a false note in Ryan's performance - and only one in Garcia's …”) but spending more time on its description of the role of the family enablers in development of alcoholism. When a Man Loves a Woman (film) When a Man Loves a Woman is a 1994 American romantic drama film written by Al Franken and Ronald Bass, starring Andy García, Meg Ryan, Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman,