Kathleen Kelly runs her mothers old book shop; it is a quiet, charming and successful little place with a real sense of community spirit and some enchanting workers. It is on top of its game until the Starbucks filled, super discount book store Joe Books comes into town. It’s the ultimate battle between globalisation and small town business. Luckily for Kathleen she has a haven to go back to, the internet where she speaks to a funny and charming friend, who she is slowly falling head over heels in love with. Joe has also been talking to an engaging and emotional lady, see the connection? But will they find out each others true identities? And if they do, can love ...  Read the complete review

>>>> Synopsis Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) one of the owners of Fox Books, a chain of mega bookshops, is about to open his latest mega-store and destroy all competitors who stand in his way, including Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) the owner of the quaint children’s bookshop "The Shop around the Corner". But unbeknown to each of them, they are best of friends online, chatting anonymously across the internet and helping each other out, to the extent that despite both being in relationships they are falling in love with each other. >>>> Opinion "You've Got Mail" is a thoroughly decent attempt to make a ...  Read the complete review

You've Got Mail was realeased in 1998 and stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in the main roles as the two people brought together. It is of course another romantic comedy/drama of which there are probably too many but this one is slightly different in the fact that it deals with them meeting on the internet. With the internet taking over many lives nowadays and being used more and more it was only amount of time before this featured heavily in movies. For me, I thought this movie was a wonderful romantic tale of two New Yorkers who had everything they wanted right there for them but didn't even know it. In this story Meg Ryan plays Kathleen Kelly and she owns a ...  Read the complete review

~~The Main Cast Etc...~~ Director - Nora Ephron Writers - Miklos Laszlow Nora Ephron Delia Ephron Hero - Tom Hanks Heroine - Meg Ryan ~~The Main Gist~~ Taking inspiration from The Shop Around The Corner (1940 Ernst Lubitsch), two New Yorkers become cyber penpals after meeting in a chatroom. Little do they realise their cyber-buddy whom they are rapidly falling for is actually a huge enemy they have actually met face-to-face. ~~The Main Characters~~ Meg Ryan plays Kathleen Kelly, an owner of a tiny independant children's bookstore called The Little Shop ...  Read the complete review

Some films are designated oozy cutie, cutie oozy films that are tailor made for those romantic evenings in with the spouse/partner... or maybe those tear spilling evenings when you are all alone and you are wondering why you cannot get someone just like Tom or Meg, where you ask yourself why fate has dealt you the losing hand and why your life is like a pile of poop. But...what the hey? Seriously, these films seem to fall off the conveyor belt like a ready-made doll, and you know what? You just cannot help enjoying them, evening though you know they are made just so the film studios can make big bucks and the actors can get paid millions for doing ...  Read the complete review